An
important part of mission of The University of Texas System is to provide
excellent, affordable and compassionate patient care through hospitals
and clinics that are of central importance to programs of teaching, scholarship,
research and service associated with medicine and related health sciences.
Within the System's six health institutions, there are four medical schools,
two dental schools and three nursing schools, as well as schools of allied
health science, biomedical sciences, health information sciences and
public health.
The health institutions include UT M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
currently ranked as the top cancer center in the world, and the UT Health
Science Center at Tyler, whose mission includes a mandate from the Legislature
to lead the state's fight against tuberculosis. The UT System is the only System in the country to have four Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) from the NIH.
Through three teaching hospitals owned by UT System institutions and numerous
affiliations with other teaching hospitals, as well as a network of community
clinics, the health institutions are major providers of health care. System owned and affiliated
hospitals and clinics have more than 5.2 million outpatients and the hospitals account for
more than 1.45 million hospital days annually.
All four UT medical schools are ranked in the top 10 of the Hispanic Business ranking of medical schools for Hispanic students and the health institutions also operate four extension campuses in South Texas
and four regional teaching and research programs in public health.
Texans invested a little over $1.03 billion in state funding in
the UT System health institutions in FY 2009, which they leveraged
to secure additional financial resources from an annual budget of $6.8 billion:
To Produce:
- More than 3,200 degrees awarded
- More than 800 graduates of medical schools
- More than 160 graduates of dental schools
- More than 180 Ph.D. medical scientists
- More than 900 graduates from nursing schools (including nearly 290 master's and Ph.D.s)
- More than 640 graduates from health profession schools (including over 300 master's and Ph.D.s)
- More than 200 public health scientists (169 master's and 44 Ph.D.s)
- Scores of highly acclaimed faculty members
To Support:
- Five public health school regional teaching and research programs
- A statewide medical and dental application center
- Four extension campuses in South Texas
- More than $1.4 billion in research expenditures (FY 2008)
- More than 1.45 million days in state owned and affiliated hospitals
- More than 5.2 million outpatient visits in state owned and affiliated facilities
- Numerous community service programs and projects, including those
for college students and public school faculty members
