The UNM Health Sciences Center is a leader among health care institutions.  UNM Hospital, HSC's primary clinical component, has consistently been one of the 100 top-performing hospitals in the United States, and ranked among the top ten academic centers in the nation.

UNM Hospital is the primary teaching hospital for the UNM School of Medicine and is the home of the highly regarded UNM Children's Hospital.   It provides New Mexicans with a wide range of specialty and subspecialty care, with many of those specialties not available anywhere else in the state.

The hospital also operates New Mexico's only Level I Trauma Center and treats more than 1,300 critically injured patients a year.  New Mexicans are fortunate to have such an integrated medical center in Albuquerque where UNMH is located.