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UW Health is the integrated health system of the University of Wisconsin–Madison, serving more than 800,000 patients each year across the Upper Midwest and beyond. With more than 1,800 physicians and 24,000 dedicated staff, we provide care through six main hospitals and more than 90 outpatient locations.
We partner with the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, where our doctors lead cutting-edge research and train future health professionals. As an academic medical center, breakthroughs in medicine have helped extend and improve lives across the nation and around the world.
In Illinois, we bring that same level of expert, compassionate care to your community. UW Health is proud to offer access to advanced treatments and trusted care teams to patients in Northern Illinois. Our goal is simple: to bring world-class care closer to home and make every patient experience the best it can be.
UW Health through the years
1918: With the leadership of Pehr August Peterson, SwedishAmerican Hospital opened in Rockford, Ill.
1924: Wisconsin General Hospital opened in Madison, Wis.
1925: A full, four-year medical program was established at the University of Wisconsin
1979: University of Wisconsin Hospital is constructed
1995: Working with the City of Rockford, SwedishAmerican helped renovate and revitalize a neighborhood south of the hospital
2006: SwedishAmerican Heart Hospital opened on the SwedishAmerican hospital campus
2007: American Family Children’s Hospital opened in Madison, Wis.
2015: East Madison Hospital opened in Madison, Wis.
2015: SwedishAmerican Health System merged with UW Health
2021: SwedishAmerican Health System rebranded UW Health
2024: Eastpark Medical Center opened in Madison, Wis.
Governance
UW Health is governed by the UW Hospitals and Clinics Authority.
A 505-bed regional referral center that is home to a Level I adult and pediatric trauma center, American College of Surgeons-verified Burn Center, one of the nation's largest organ transplant programs, one of the nation's first certified comprehensive stroke centers and the UW Carbone Cancer Center, one of 41 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive centers in the country.
A 56-bed, community-based health and wellness facility.
A 111-bed comprehensive pediatric medical and surgical center with pediatric and neonatal surgical intensive care units, Level I pediatric trauma unit, verified Burn Center and a pediatric hybrid catheterization/angiography suite.
This 448-bed community-based hospital provides a complete range of medical and surgical services. UnityPoint Health-Meriter joined UW Health in 2017.
A 50-bed acute inpatient rehabilitation facility for people who have experienced stroke, brain and spinal-cord injuries, amputations, complex orthopedic injuries and other conditions requiring inpatient rehabilitative services.
Serving greater Rockford, northern Illinois and southern Wisconsin, SwedishAmerican Hospital is a major 339-bed acute care hospital. Learn more
An inpatient/outpatient hospital with 34 beds in Belvidere, Ill.
Beloit Hospital (Beloit, Wis.)
UW Health | Carbone Cancer Center Rockford (Rockford, Ill.)
UW Cancer Center at ProHealth Care (Pewaukee, Wis.)
UW Cancer Center Johnson Creek (Johnson Creek, Wis.)
UW Cancer Center Aspirus Riverview Hospital (Wisconsin Rapids, Wis.)
The state’s second-largest medical practice group, representing the 1,785 clinical faculty physicians of the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
A subsidiary health insurance provider with more than 350,000 members in a 35-county region in Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota and Iowa.
A not-for-profit membership corporation that facilitates clinical and contracting relationships with insurance companies and regional providers.
UW Health Fertility Care
Madison Surgery Center
UW Health Aesthetics and Plastic Surgery
UW Cancer Center Johnson Creek
UW Health Care Direct
Wisconsin Sleep