Tomorrow's Health: Access to Care for Everyone

America's teaching hospitals provide care for many underserved populations in the United States--people who might not otherwise have access to medical care.

	Although only 6 percent of the nation's hospitals, teaching hospitals provide hospital care to almost 50 percent of those without insurance.
	Almost 60 percent of admissions to all major teaching hospitals are either uninsured, Medicaid recipients, or minority and low-income patients.
	Over half of all the children hospitalized in major teaching hospitals are either uninsured or covered by Medicaid.
	The average municipal major teaching hospital contributed about $55 million in uncompensated care annually between 1992 and 1996.

America's teaching hospitals offer the crucial services these patients need. They are more likely than other hospitals to offer comprehensive HIV-related services, trauma care, burn units, and comprehensive ambulatory services like reproductive health, teen outreach, crisis prevention, and child or adolescent psychiatry.