Texas Medical Center

In the more than 50 years since that dream originated, it has been realized many times over.The Texas Medical Center today has 42 member institutions that each exists to serve all of mankind. On any given day, one can find people from every social circumstance and many of the world's nations seeking treatment at the center's renowned institutions.

It started with a dream. The Texas Medical Center started with a dream to create a medical center, where people from all walks of life could have access to the best health care anywhere - whether they were rich, poor, famous, alone, young, or old.

Many of the member institutions are working to make the Texas Medical Center quality of care convenient to even more people by putting clinics, offices, and other facilities in neighborhoods throughout Houston and the surrounding communities, and even in other parts of Texas and the world.

In the Texas Medical Center, there is something to meet everybody's needs. The county's two trauma facilities are located in the center, as are institutions specializing in every imaginable aspect of health care, including care for children, cancer patients, heart care, organ transplantation, terminal illness, mental health, and wellness and prevention.

All 42 of the Texas Medical Center's member institutions are not-for-profit, and are dedicated to the highest standards of patient and preventive care, research, education, and local, national, and international community well-being. These institutions include 13 renowned hospitals and two specialty institutions, two medical schools, four nursing schools, and schools of dentistry, public health, pharmacy, and virtually all health-related careers.

It is where one of the first, and still the largest, air emergency service was created; a very successful inter-institutional transplant program was developed; and more heart surgeries are performed than anywhere else in the world.

It's all here, in the Texas Medical Center -- and it's here for everyone.

TMC Mission

The Mission of the Texas Medical Center is to promote the highest quality health status for all people by assisting member institutions to achieve individual and collective goals of the highest possible standards of patient and preventive care, of research and education, and of local, national and international community well-being.

Facts and Figures about the Texas Medical Center

• 5.4 million total patient visits in 2000
• 19,307 international patients
• 61,041 total positions within Texas Medical Center Institutions (includes 8,800 staff in part-time and contract positions; not included are approximately 10,000 professionals and support personnel who work in adjacent professional buildings
• 6,041 licensed beds; 426 bassinets
• 16,547 students attended regular classes
• 88,198 participants enrolled in educational or professional retraining
• 140,000 visitors to the Museum of Health & Medical Science, includes 64,189 students attending its educational programs.
• 2,305 short courses, seminars, and workshops offered
• 11,535 volunteers assisting with a wide variety of tasks benefiting the TMC
• $4.6 billion combined operating budgets for member institutions
• $11.5 billion indirect impact on Houston's economy
• $7.8 billion member institutions' capital investment
• $573 million expended for research activities of TMC member institutions
• $2.2 billion has been received by the Texas Medical Center member institutions as grants for research during the past five years (UT M.D.Anderson Cancer Center, and UT Houston Health Science Center are leaders in the research category)
• $1.1 Billion spent in adding or renovating the facilities of member institutions and to the infrastructure of Texas Medical Center from 1999-2002
• 700+ acres with more than 100 permanent buildings
• 22 million gross square feet in physical plant space
• 12 miles of private and public streets and roadways in Texas Medical Center
• 42,000+ parking spaces used by patients, visitors, students, employees, and others: includes 24,924 parking spaces in 14 garages and 28 surface lots owned and operated by Texas Medical Center; 14,850 spaces owned by member institution; and 2,500 spaces operated by outside companies.