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 M. D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston,
currently ranked as the top cancer center in the world, and the UT Health
Center at Tyler, whose mission includes a mandate from the Legislature
to lead the state's fight against tuberculosis.
Through three teaching hospitals owned by 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 5.6 million outpatients and the hospitals account for
more than 1.25 hospital days annually.
The health institutions also operate four extension campuses in South Texas
and four regional teaching and research programs in public health.
The state contracts with the UT Medical Branch at Galveston to provide
comprehensive health care to more than 120,000 inmates of the state prison
system.
Texans invested a little over $861 million in state funding in
the UT System health institutions in FY 2006, which they leveraged
to secure additional financial resources from an annual budget of $6.1 billion:
To Produce:
- Almost 800 graduates of medical schools
- Almost 140 graduates of dental schools
- More than 180 Ph.D. medical scientists
- More than 750 nurses (including more than 175 master's and Ph.D.s)
- More than 500 allied health professionals (including more than 175 master's)
- More than 200 public health scientists (169 master's and 44 Ph.D.s)
- Scores of highly acclaimed faculty members, including five Nobel
laureates
To Support:
- Four public health school regional teaching and research programs
- A statewide medical and dental application center
- Four extension campuses in South Texas
- More than $1 billion in research expenditures (FY 2004)
- Comprehensive care for more than 120,000 inmates in the Texas Department
of Criminal Justice
- More than 1.25 million days in state owned and affiliated hospitals
- More than 5.6 million outpatient visits in state owned and affiliated facilities
- Nearly $1.3 billion in unsponsored indigent care charges (FY 2004)
- Numerous community service programs and projects, including those
for college students and public school faculty members
