UC Davis Health

What UC Davis Health does

UC Davis Health is the Sacramento-based academic health system of the University of California, Davis, operating a Level IV tertiary care medical center, an NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, a Children's Hospital, a Rehabilitation Hospital (jointly with Kindred Healthcare), the MIND Institute for neurodevelopmental research, the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing, and the UC Davis School of Medicine. It serves as the only academic health center for the Sacramento region and inland Northern California, addressing both routine and complex clinical needs across a 6 million-person catchment that includes substantial rural and underserved populations.

Revenue is generated through three primary streams: patient care services delivered via the medical center, children's hospital, rehabilitation hospital, neighborhood clinics, specialty centers, mobile units (MobileMammo+, Pediatric Mobile Clinic), and telehealth (connected to 30+ rural hospitals); research grants and sponsored funding — approximately $400M in external research awards in FY2023-24, including ~$233M from NIH — supporting translational, clinical, and basic science programs across cancer, dementia, neurodevelopmental disorders, ALS, violence prevention, and women's health; and educational programs spanning medical school, nursing school, residency, fellowship, and continuing medical education. Recent grant commitments include a $24M NIH STAR extension, $16M PCORI PRISM trial, and a $40M Virginia Tech-led indoor-air sensor contract.

Distribution layers a flagship physical campus with a Cancer Care Network of affiliated rural centers, mobile screening units, telehealth, and event- and research-driven community outreach (e.g., Summer Institute, Hmong Cultural Center partnership, ASPIRE recruitment across six sites). Distribution infrastructure is being materially expanded via the California Tower inpatient project (opening 2030) and the CUPx utility plant groundbreaking (October 2025). Strategic positioning combines multi-specialty clinical excellence, NIH-validated research scale, NCI regulatory standing, and a differentiated AI capability stack — including a Nature Medicine-validated brain-computer interface for ALS speech restoration, the national PRISM mammography AI trial, and the AggieBrain neuropathology AI initiative — making UC Davis Health a hybrid academic-clinical-AI platform rather than a conventional regional provider.

Name

UC Davis Health

Legal name

UC Regents (The Regents of the University of California)

Website

https://health.ucdavis.edu

Company type

Public

Founded year

1905

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

5,001–10,000 employees

Short description

UC Davis Health is the Sacramento-based academic health system of the University of California, operating a tertiary medical center, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Children's Hospital, Rehabilitation Hospital, and MIND Institute, serving patients across the Sacramento region, Central Valley, and inland Northern California with clinical care, research, and medical education.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Medical Center

NAICS

Health Care and Social Assistance (62), Specialty (except Psychiatric and Substance Abuse) Hospitals (6223)

SIC

Services-Hospitals (8060), Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospital-Integrated Cancer Centers (Acute Oncology Programs) (HLAFAAAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Public Research Universities with Academic Medical Centers (AMCs) (EDAHAAAC), Oncology & Cancer Specialty Hospitals (HLAFAHAC)

Keywords

• Academic medical center
• Cancer treatment services
• Pediatric specialty care
• Clinical research programs
• Medical education

Headquarters

HQ city

Sacramento

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Patient Care Services: Direct healthcare services including hospital care, outpatient clinics, specialty care, surgical procedures, and emergency services through UC Davis Medical Center, Children's Hospital, Rehabilitation Hospital, and affiliated clinics.
2. Research Grants and Funding: Federal, state, and industry research awards funding clinical, translational, and basic science studies. Includes NIH grants (~$233M in NIH funding), NCI designation funding, and foundation gifts like the $420,500 Berghoff Foundation gift.
3. Educational Programs: Medical school, nursing school, residency and fellowship programs, and continuing medical education generating tuition and training revenue.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion4 records

Distribution channels11 records

Marketing channels10 records

Core offering

UC Davis Health is an academic health system providing comprehensive patient care, clinical research, and medical education through its medical center, children's hospital, rehabilitation hospital, NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center, MIND Institute, and Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing. Core services include primary and specialty care, oncology, pediatric specialty care, rehabilitation, and neurodevelopmental care, supported by 200+ active clinical trials and AI-driven research programs.

Product overview

UC Davis Health is an academic health system comprising the UC Davis Medical Center (ranked among nation's best hospitals), UC Davis Children's Hospital (top-ranked pediatric facility), UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center (NCI-designated), and UC Davis MIND Institute for neurodevelopmental research. The system offers comprehensive clinical services through specialty care centers and operates the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing and UC Davis School of Medicine for education. Key research programs include the AggieBrain AI neuropathology initiative, PRISM AI mammogram trial, BrainGate speech BCI system for ALS patients, BLOSSOM mobile cancer screening, and ASPIRE Asian American cohort study. Additional programs include AI ambient scribing for clinical documentation, specialty pharmacy value-based care programs, telehealth services serving rural hospitals, and the UC Davis Cancer Care Network extending oncology access to underserved regions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AggieBrain: AI-driven initiative for neuropathology and dementia research using machine learning to analyze brain tissue data
• BLOSSOM
• EMBRACE
• BulletPoints Project
• Violence Prevention Research Program (VPRP)

Products and services

• UC Davis Medical Center Flagship acute care hospital providing comprehensive inpatient and outpatient services, ranked among the nation's best hospitals in cardiology, heart & vascular surgery, diabetes & endocrinology, ENT, geriatrics, neurology & neurosurgery, and pulmonology & lung surgery.
• UC Davis Children's Hospital Children's hospital providing care in more than 30 pediatric specialties, with Level IV NICU designation. Ranked among the nation's best children's hospitals in pediatric nephrology, orthopedics, and pulmonology & lung surgery.
• UC Davis Rehabilitation Hospital Acute rehabilitation hospital dedicated to treatment and recovery of severe injury or illness, operated jointly with Kindred Healthcare.
• UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center providing cancer care to more than 100,000 adults and children annually, with access to over 200 active clinical trials and 240+ scientists.
• UC Davis MIND Institute Interdisciplinary research, clinical, and education center focused on autism and neurodevelopmental conditions with an interdisciplinary approach to research and patient care.
• UC Davis School of Medicine

Quantifiable outcome

• Successfully identified 11,000+ patients at risk of life-threatening aneurysms through AI health record scanning, saving more than 30 lives
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments7 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability13 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Ten partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Brown UniversitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2026Brown University collaborated with UC Davis researchers to develop the brain-computer interface system enabling independent speech communication for ALS patients. The BCI research was published in Nature Medicine and represents a breakthrough in moving BCIs from supervised demonstrations to sustained real-world tools.
• University of Rochester MedicinecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 18 June 2026Researchers at UC Davis Health and University of Rochester Medicine jointly developed a new computational method using machine learning to better predict which premature infants will develop Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia (BPD). The study was published in the Journal of Pediatrics.
• UCSFcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 June 2026UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is working in collaboration with UCSF, which is leading the ASPIRE (Asian American Cohort Study) on the West Coast. ASPIRE is a National Cancer Institute-funded national study recruiting 20,000 Asian Americans across 20 institutions to understand cancer disparities among Asian Americans, with UC Davis focusing on Vietnamese and Hmong communities.
• Hmong Cultural Center of Butte CountycoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 17 June 2026The Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County in Oroville leads outreach efforts to Hmong residents in the Sacramento area to recruit participants for the ASPIRE cancer research study.
• Mass General Brigham Neuroscience InstitutecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 15 June 2026Mass General Brigham collaborated with UC Davis and Brown University researchers to publish findings in Nature Medicine demonstrating independent BCI use for ALS patients. The study showed the participant communicated over 183,000 sentences at 56 words per minute with 99% word accuracy.
• Marshall Cancer CentercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 2 June 2026Marshall Cancer Center, an affiliate of the UC Davis Cancer Care Network, receives oncology staffing and clinical trial access from UC Davis Health. Two clinicians (Deepthi Busayavalasa and Jennifer Aldred) are based at Marshall to provide care to El Dorado County patients, reducing travel burden for rural patients.
• Paradromics Inc.coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 27 March 2026Paradromics launched the APEX Partnership Program establishing collaborative relationships with academic researchers at UC Davis Health to advance brain-computer interface science for conditions including Parkinson's disease, epilepsy, stroke, and spinal cord injury. The program leverages Paradromics' Connexus BCI platform capable of transferring over 200 bits of information per second with single-neuron resolution. UC Davis is participating in the ongoing Connect-One Clinical Study evaluating long-term use of the Connexus BCI.
• AG1 (Athletic Greens)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 January 2026AG1 redirected $20 million of marketing spend into clinical research conducted at UC Davis as part of the company's rebrand from Athletic Greens to AG1 and commitment to scientific credibility over advertising spend.
• Virginia TechcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 20 October 2025Virginia Tech is leading a federal contract of up to $40 million to develop sensor systems for indoor air contaminants, with UC Davis researchers participating in the project to revolutionize clean indoor air and defend against future pandemics.
• Kaiser Permanente Division of ResearchcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 17 January 2024UC Davis Health and Kaiser Permanente Division of Research received a $24 million NIH grant to continue the Study of Healthy Aging in African Americans (STAR) for five additional years. Researchers from both institutions jointly investigate dementia risk factors in Black Americans.

Scale indicators16 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights7 records

Direct peers

• UCSF Health: University of California, San Francisco's academic medical center is a direct system peer: same UC system governance, NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center, Magnet nursing, top-tier NIH funding, and major AI/precision-medicine research. Joint investigator with UC Davis on the ASPIRE Asian American cohort study.
• Stanford Health Care: Northern California academic medical center with comparable specialty hospital, NCI-designated cancer center, and research portfolio. Direct competitor for complex patient referrals, NIH-funded faculty, and life-sciences industry partnerships in the Bay Area/Central Valley corridor.
• UCLA Health: University of California, Los Angeles's academic medical center, also NCI-designated Comprehensive, Magnet-recognized, and a participating site in the multi-center PRISM AI mammography trial. Sister UC-system institution with overlapping funding, talent, and patient populations.
• UC San Diego Health: University of California, San Diego's academic medical center — another NCI-designated UC-system peer involved in the same PRISM consortium and with overlapping research/talent competition for NIH grants and faculty recruitment.

Broad incumbents

• Kaiser Permanente: California's largest integrated payer-provider system, headquartered in Oakland. Long-standing research partnership with UC Davis on the STAR dementia study ($24M NIH renewal) and a major regional competitor for both insured patients and clinical-research collaboration in Northern California.
• Sutter Health: Large not-for-profit Northern California health system operating hospitals, ambulatory clinics, and home health across Sacramento and the Bay Area. Competes for primary and specialty patients in the same Sacramento-region catchment as UC Davis Medical Center and the Cancer Care Network.
• Cedars-Sinai Medical Center: Los Angeles-based not-for-profit academic medical center with a comparable multi-specialty footprint, strong NIH research base, and national brand. Comparable on Magnet recognition, U.S. News rankings, and AI/clinical-translational research programs.
• Mayo Clinic: National academic medical center benchmark for NCI Comprehensive Cancer Center status, Magnet nursing, large-scale multi-site clinical trials, and substantial NIH funding. Useful comparison for the scale of research and tertiary-care capacity UC Davis aspires to in inland Northern California.

Emerging players

• City of Hope: NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center in Southern California with a translational-research focus overlapping UC Davis's cancer portfolio — particularly immunotherapy, early-phase trials, and community outreach — though operating at a more oncology-specialized scale.
• Huntsman Cancer Institute (University of Utah): NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Utah with similar inland/mountain-region catchment model, rural outreach, and integration with a public university health system — useful analog for how UC Davis can scale cancer care beyond a single metro.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• YouTubeyoutube.com/ucdavishealth
• Facebookfacebook.com/UCDMIND
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/uc-davis-health
• Instagraminstagram.com/ucdavishealth

Compliance11 records

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Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles12 records

Subsidiaries9 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments1 record

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