The University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview is the main university hospital for the University of Minnesota Medical School. There are two campuses: one located on the East Bank of the Mississippi River, known as the University Campus, and the other located on the West Bank, known as the Riverside Campus. It is owned and operated by Fairview Health Services, and is staffed by physicians of University of Minnesota Physicians and community physicians. It was previously known as Fairview-University Medical Center.
The 874-bed University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview includes inpatient and outpatient facilities and is connected with six community clinics and many specialty clinics. Services range from "primary care", "emergency care" and the delivery of thousands of babies each year to care of patients. Areas of specialization includes organ and blood and marrow transplantation, neurosciences, pediatrics and behavioral illnesses.
The medical center and University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview, were created in 1997 as a result of the merger of the University of Minnesota Hospitals and Clinics with Fairview Health Services.
Consistently named among the nation's "Top Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report, the University of Minnesota Medical Center is a teaching institution.
The world's first open heart surgery and the first bone marrow transplant were done at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
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