The UFRN also manages three large university hospitals in the city of Natal where its central campus is located, including the Onofre Lopes University Hospital of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte(HUOL-UFRN) which the largest hospital in the state, and where the Laboratory of Technological Innovation in Health (LAIS) is located, the Hospital de Pediatria da UFRN is also managed by the UFRN as well as the Maternity School Januário Cicco - MEJC. In addition the Faculty of Medicine in the university is regarded as one of the best in the country, usually competing for first place in the North and Northeast regions of the country with the Federal University of Perambuco (UFPE).