Nineteen buildings spread across fifteen blocks in front of you, the University of Oklahoma Health Campus, near the Oklahoma State Capitol. This is the primary place of training for many of Oklahoma's health professions and one of only four health centers in the United States with seven professional colleges. Nineteen buildings of the OU Health Campus occupy a fifteen-block area here in Oklahoma City near the Oklahoma State Capitol, and around them sit another twenty health-related buildings, some owned by the university. The OU Health Campus is the core of a wider complex known as the Oklahoma Health Center.
On this campus the major clinical facilities affiliated with OU Medicine gather: the OU Medical Center hospital complex, The Children's Hospital, OU Physicians and OU Children's Physicians clinics, the Harold Hamm Diabetes Center and the Peggy and Charles Stephenson Oklahoma Cancer Center. The Oklahoma City VA Medical Center is also part of these major clinical facilities. Your campus stands as a teaching hub that grew from an institution whose main university in Norman was founded in 1890 by the Oklahoma Territorial Legislature, seventeen years before statehood. Notice that this teaching hub traces back to 1890, founded seventeen years before Oklahoma even reached statehood.