About Ohio State Medical Center

In 1914, a small two-story house at the corner of Neil and 10th became the first Ohio State University hospital, a teaching hospital for doctors and nurses.

From the beginning, Ohio State's trustees envisioned a place that would attract not only the best physicians and students but also researchers who could use the latest discoveries in science to find new and better ways to diagnose and treat disease.

Throughout its history, OSU Medical Center has played a pivotal role in building a healthy central Ohio community. Its free clinics, health services, screening events, facility expansions and acquisitions, and dozens of partnerships with community health organizations and healthcare providers have extended its reach into every Columbus neighborhood.

16,000 physicians, researchers, instructors and administrative staff now work at the Medical Center and in its many locations, caring for more than a million patients every year. A dozen research institutes study everything from genetics to organ transplants to find new ways to prevent, diagnose and treat disease. More than 1,400 future doctors receive their training here each year and thousands of other health professionals receive their education at OSU Medical Center each year.

So what began in a small two-story brick building, in a time before antibiotics and x-rays, is now one of the largest academic medical centers in the world, pioneering personalized health care based on each person's unique genetics, lifestyle and environment.

And today, nearly a century later, a new Ohio State University Board of Trustees has approved a new vision: ProjectONE - the largest construction project in Ohio State's history - which will bring a new cancer hospital, a highly advanced critical care building, an outpatient clinic, and new research facilities and classrooms to serve the communities we care so much about.

Through nearly 100 years of growth, much has changed. The original founders would be in awe of the Medical Center today and its reach beyond the University's campus into neighborhoods that didn't even exist in their day. Nor would they recognize the complexity of today's medical therapies and technology, but they would still find the same mission and purpose upon which Ohio State's Medical Center was founded: to improve people's lives through innovation in research education and patient care.