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A look at CoMo health care by the numbers.
1,112
This represents the number of hospital beds in the three hospital systems of Columbia, plus the number of available beds at the longterm acute-care Landmark Hospital. At Boone Hospital Center, University of Missouri Health Care system, Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital and Landmark Hospital, Columbia’s hospitals always have a bed open for patients.
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According to ProPublica’s ER Wait Watcher, this is the average length of time patients spent in an emergency department in a Columbia hospital before they were seen by a health care professional. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Center for Health Statistics reports the national average is 58.1 minutes.
This is the cruising speed of the University of Missouri’s Staff for Life helicopter. Since 1982, the hospital helicopter service has flown more than 30,000 patient missions. In the last year alone, the Staff for Life helicopter transported 782 patients.
1:986
This is the ratio of licensed primary care physicians to Boone County residents, compiled in 2015 by the Columbia/Boone County Department of Public Health and Human Services. The statewide ratio is 1:1,439.
90 l Inside Columbia's Community Guide 2015-2016
1872
The University of Missouri School of Medicine began teaching future physicians that year. The school began as a two-year program and was the first public medical school west of the Mississippi River.
38,882
This figure represents the number of surgeries performed at University Hospital, Boone Hospital Center and Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in fiscal year 2014.