UI Health

Name

UI Health

Legal name

University of Illinois Hospital & Health Sciences System

Website

https://hospital.uillinois.edu

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Academic Health System Services

NAICS

Ambulatory Health Care Services (621)

SIC

Services-General Medical & Surgical Hospitals, Nec (8062)

akta.pro primary industry

Integrated Delivery Networks (IDNs) & Multi-Hospital Systems (HLAFAAAC)

Keywords

• Academic health system
• Tertiary hospital services
• Federally qualified health centers
• Transplant and cancer care
• Specialty and primary care

Headquarters

HQ city

Chicago

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices20 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Healthcare Services Revenue: UI Health generates revenue through provision of comprehensive healthcare services including primary care, specialty care, emergency medicine, surgery, transplantation, cancer care, and other medical services to patients with various insurance coverage levels and financial assistance programs.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

UI Health is the clinical enterprise of the University of Illinois Chicago, operating a 451-bed tertiary care hospital, 30+ outpatient clinics, and a network of 11 Federally Qualified Health Centers. It delivers comprehensive acute and ambulatory healthcare services spanning primary care, specialty care, emergency medicine, transplantation, cancer care, robotic and vascular surgery, pediatrics, women's health, behavioral health, and oral healthcare to roughly 1.4 million patients annually across Illinois. Services are supported by Epic-based electronic health records, the MyChart patient portal, Abridge ambient AI clinical documentation, and AGFA cloud-based enterprise imaging.

Product overview

UI Health is the academic health enterprise of the University of Illinois Chicago, operating as an integrated health system comprising The University of Illinois Hospital (451-bed tertiary care hospital), 30+ outpatient clinics, and the Mile Square Health Center network of 11 Federally Qualified Health Centers. The organization leverages Epic Systems' electronic health record with MyChart patient portal as the core clinical and administrative platform, augmented by specialized AI tools including Abridge for ambient clinical documentation and AGFA Enterprise Imaging Cloud for imaging infrastructure. Services span primary care, specialty care, emergency medicine, transplantation, cancer care, cardiovascular services, neurological care, robotic surgery, women's health, pediatrics, and behavioral health.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Mile Square Health Center: Network of 11 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs) providing primary care, dental, behavioral health, and community health services throughout the Chicago area and beyond.

Products and services

• University of Illinois Hospital 451-bed tertiary care hospital serving as the flagship inpatient facility of UI Health in the Illinois Medical District; provides comprehensive acute care across all major specialties.
• MyChart Patient Portal Epic-powered patient portal enabling appointment scheduling, secure messaging with care teams, prescription refills, access to test results, and bill payment; available on Apple iOS and Android.
• Abridge AI Clinical Documentation Platform Ambient AI platform that transcribes patient–physician conversations and generates clinical documentation across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings; integrates with Epic EHR and supports multiple non-English languages including Spanish, Arabic, Polish, and Chinese.
• AGFA Enterprise Imaging Cloud Cloud-based enterprise imaging platform modernizing imaging infrastructure and unifying image management across the UI Health system.
• Mile Square Health Center Network Network of 11 Federally Qualified Health Centers providing primary care, dental, behavioral health, and community health services across Chicago communities including Auburn Gresham, Back of the Yards, Cicero, Englewood, South Shore, Gage Park, West Elsdon, Pilsen, and others.
• Outpatient Care Center 245,000-square-foot facility housing 21 primary and specialty care clinics delivering outpatient services across UI Health's medical specialties.
• Specialty Care Building Specialty care facility providing same-day surgery, transplantation procedures, ophthalmology, cancer screening, and robotic surgery.
• University of Illinois Cancer Center Cancer center providing clinical trials, innovative medicine, and supportive care across breast, colon, gynecologic, head and neck, lung, prostate, and urologic cancers.

Quantifiable outcome

• 6 percentage point increase in patient satisfaction on 'provider explained in a way you understand' metric (91% to 97%) during Abridge AI pilot
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability8 records

Feature3 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• AbridgecoreTechnology or Integration · 24 November 2025UI Health deployed Abridge's enterprise-grade AI platform across inpatient, outpatient, and emergency care settings to support clinical documentation. The AI platform integrates with Epic Systems' electronic health record and supports multiple non-English languages including Spanish, Arabic, Polish, and Chinese to serve UI Health's linguistically diverse patient population.
• Food is Medicine Hypertension StudycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 21 October 2025Mile Square Health Center is partnering on a $2.98 million NIH-funded study to test whether better nutrition access can help manage high blood pressure and obesity. The study examines food is medicine interventions for hypertension management.
• AGFA HealthCarecoreTechnology or Integration · 1 January 2025AGFA HealthCare signed Enterprise Imaging cloud agreements with UI Health during Q3 2025. UI Health adopted AGFA's cloud-based solutions to modernize imaging infrastructure and unify image management across the health system.
• HealthLeaders MediaminorGTM or Marketing PartnerUI Health participated in HealthLeaders Media's The Winning Edge panel alongside University of Maryland Medical System and Yale New Haven Health System, discussing how AI, virtual care, and digital health technologies are improving Emergency Department operations.

Scale indicators9 records

Broad incumbents

• UW Health: University of Wisconsin Health, the Madison-based public AMC affiliated with the University of Wisconsin. Broad incumbent peer as another Midwestern public-university academic health system with overlapping mission, training, and research activities.
• Indiana University Health: Indiana University Health, the largest health system in Indiana affiliated with IU School of Medicine. Broad incumbent peer as a public academic-anchored multi-hospital system operating in the Midwest with a comparable mission structure and scale.
• University of Michigan Health: Michigan Medicine, the public AMC affiliated with the University of Michigan. Broad incumbent peer as a similarly structured public university-owned academic health system with comparable scale, research intensity, and tertiary referral model.

Direct peers

• Rush University Medical Center: Chicago-based academic medical center affiliated with Rush University. Direct peer as a competitor academic medical center in Chicago's near-west market, with overlapping tertiary and specialty service lines and shared patient populations.
• Loyola Medicine: Maywood-based academic medical system anchored by Loyola University Medical Center and the Stritch School of Medicine. Direct peer because it competes with UI Health for Chicago-area tertiary referrals, residency training pipelines, and quaternary care.
• UChicago Medicine: University of Chicago Medical Center, a Chicago-based AMC affiliated with the Pritzker School of Medicine. Direct peer because it competes with UI Health on South Side Chicago for academic tertiary care, cancer services, and clinical trial enrollment.
• Northwestern Medicine: Chicago-based academic health system anchored by Northwestern Memorial Hospital and the Feinberg School of Medicine. Direct peer because it competes head-to-head with UI Health for complex specialty, transplant, and quaternary care referrals in Chicago with similar academic-mission positioning.
• Cook County Health: Public Chicago safety-net health system anchored by Stroger Hospital and a network of community health centers. Direct peer because it shares UI Health's mission of serving uninsured and underinsured populations in the Chicago market, operates an FQHC-like ambulatory footprint, and competes for the same safety-net patient base.

Regional players

• Carle Health: Carle Health, a non-profit integrated system based in Urbana, Illinois. Regional peer as a downstate Illinois system competing for tertiary referrals from Champaign-Urbana, where UI Health also maintains an academic campus presence.
• OSF HealthCare: OSF HealthCare, an Illinois-based Catholic health system headquartered in Peoria with statewide reach. Regional peer because it competes with UI Health in downstate Illinois markets (Peoria, Rockford) while operating from a different sponsoring-entity model.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/user/UIHospital
• Facebookfacebook.com/UIHealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/uihealth
• Instagraminstagram.com/uihealth
• Xx.com/UIHealth

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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