The Case Mix Index is a standard hospital metric for addressing the question: "How sick are our patients?" Hospitals with more seriously ill patients score higher on the index, and this translates to more resources used by the hospital and higher cost. An average hospital scores 1.0 on the index.

In addition to primary and specialty care, UC hospitals provide cancer care, burn care, minimally invasive procedures, organ transplants and robotic surgery. They also provide technologically sophisticated care, such as life-saving surgeries to treat brain tumors, procedures to repair heart damage and use of nanotechnologies in the treatment of children.

In addition, the UC medical centers treat patients transferred from other hospitals that have exhausted all efforts and consider UC to be hospitals of last resort.

Source: University of California Medical Centers Report on Audit of Financial Statements. Additional information can be found at http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/finreports/.

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