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Mission StatementUC Academic Health Center's mission, in accord with the university's UC|21 strategic plan, is to enhance and improve the quality of life for people everywhere by discovering, teaching and applying knowledge in the health sciences.
We are fulfilling this commitment by providing high-quality educational programs, conducting excellent research and delivering the highest quality patient-centered care possible. A parallel goal is to take our place as one of the top 20 research-based academic health centers in the United States, while helping to develop the fast-growing biomedical industry in the region.
These activities have an immediate and beneficial economic effect on the community in terms of the 16,000 full-time equivalent jobs that make the Academic Health Center the largest employer in Greater Cincinnati. The ripple effect of that direct employment generates nearly 42,000 related jobs across Ohio and more than 50,000 in the immediate Ohio, Indiana and Northern Kentucky Tristate area.
Economic ImpactData published in 2003 showed the Academic Health Center had an overall $3.59 billion impact on the Tristate area - $1.56 billion of it a direct result of the center's spending on goods and services, and $2.03 billion generated in the economy by the indirect effect of this spending.
The center's business impact on all of Ohio was $2.74 billion, representing $1.19 billion in direct and $1.55 billion in indirect spending.
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