The Ever Changing
Texas Medical Center
Photo by David Damiani
listed on the front:
The Methodist Hospital
University of Texas
St. Luke's Medical Towers
St. Luke's Hospital
Baylor Medical School Plaza
MD Anderson Hospital
Rice University
Texas Children's Hospital
Rotary House
Shriner's Hospital for Crippled Children
and
Children's Nutrition Research Center
2010
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The Texas Medical Center is the largest medical center in the world with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research. Located in the Southeast Houston district of Houston, the center contains 49 medicine-related institutions, including 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and other health-related practices. All 49 institutions are not-for-profit.
According to the Texas Medical Center, more heart surgeries are performed here than anywhere else in the world.
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