The UNM Health Sciences Center was created in 1994 when the UNM Board of Regents united the health-related academic and clinical components of the university:

• UNM Carrie Tingley Hospital
• UNM Children’s Hospital
• UNM Children’s Psychiatric Hospital 
• UNM Hospital
• UNM Psychiatric Center 

Our mission is to provide added value to health care through:

• leadership in providing innovative, collaborative education;
• advancing the frontiers of science through research critical to the future of health care;
• delivering health care services that are at the forefront of science;
• facilitating partnerships with public and private biomedical and health enterprises.

Our vision is to identify and solve the most important questions of human health in our communities through education, scholarship and service with commitment to the HSC core values.

Our core values emphasize:

• a culture of shared expectations regarding integrity, accountability and decisiveness in commitment to excellence;
• compassion and respect in our interaction with students, patients and colleagues;
• diversity in people and thinking;
• effective utilization of our resources;
• advancement of our institutional mission while supporting professional and personal growth.