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Acute Care Quality
As a leader in acute care and hospital management, UHS is ranked as one of the world’s “Most Admired Companies.”
Graduate Medical Education (GME)
UHS offers many diverse residency and fellowship programs at prime locations across the country. Learn from medical experts at our acute care hospitals and continue advanced education in your field of choice.
Transforming the Patient Experience
Being a Leader
Bringing new hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, physician alliance groups and urgent care centers to communities we serve.
Delivering Innovation
Investing in advanced technology and exploring new treatment options with the goals of elevating patient care, safety and outcomes.
Broadening Horizons
Exploring joint ventures and other partnering opportunities with academic and not-for-profit hospital systems to share our expertise and establish destinations for care in the communities we serve.
Compassionate Care
We treat patients and caregivers like they’re honored guests and family members.
Quality and service are the top priorities for our amazing caregivers. Everything we do is focused on our patients.”
Edward Sim
President, Acute Care Division
Acute Care Division
Services
Wide range of services and products
The UHS Acute Care Division is comprised of hospitals, freestanding emergency departments, and ambulatory centers across six states and the District of Columbia.
UHS Acute Care facilities offer a full continuum of care, ranging from imaging and diagnostic services to primary and specialty care, radiation and surgeries, post-acute care rehabilitation and home health services.
Service delivery
- Accountable Care Organizations (ACO): UHS established its first ACO in 2014, and has since expanded to seven across the United States. These ACOs have consistently increased cost savings for third-party payers (Medicare), improved quality and been financially beneficial to participating physicians.
- Integrated Delivery Networks (IDN): With IDNs, patients gain better access to a full range of healthcare services (hospitals, outpatient and ambulatory service offerings) and have the opportunity to stay in-network and receive more coordinated care.
Joint Ventures, Partnerships and Alliances
UHS is continually looking to engage in strategic partnerships that provide patients with convenient access to more services, physicians and locations. Most recently we have joined forces with the following distinguished healthcare leaders:
- BAYADA Home Health Care
- Government of the District of Columbia
- Regent Surgical Health
- Riverside Medical Clinic
In August 2018, Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser announced her Administration’s public-private partnership with UHS to build a state-of-the-art, full-service hospital and health services complex in Ward 8. Cedar Hill Regional Medical Center GW Health (CHRMC) opened in April 2025 and is operated by UHS, through a subsidiary. CHRMC and The George Washington University Hospital (GW Hospital) are part of an integrated and comprehensive healthcare network, including Cedar Hill Urgent Care GW Health, which opened in Ward 8 in October 2022, and Fletcher-Johnson Freestanding Emergency Department, which is scheduled to open in 2027.
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