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Texas Medical Center (TMC) — the largest medical city in the world—is at the forefront of advancing life sciences. Home to the brightest minds in medicine, TMC nurtures cross-institutional collaboration, creativity and innovation because together, we can push the limits of what’s possible.
Home to the world’s largest children’s hospital & world’s largest cancer hospital. TMC delivers one baby every 20 minutes, resulting in approximately 26,280 births per calendar year. TMC begins one surgery every three minutes.
The State of the Texas Medical Center event, hosted by the Greater Houston Partnership, was held on December 10, 2020. William McKeon, president & CEO of TMC, highlighted 2020 achievements and shared future opportunities for collaboration to an audience of over 700 virtual guests.
For the first time in the history of the Texas Medical Center, leaders throughout the TMC community have joined together in a visionary initiative to drive the next generation of life science advancements. Their goal: To become the world leader in health and life sciences by leveraging the collective power of TMC’s renowned institutions in a shared, centrally managed environment. The result is a research collaborative unlike anything TMC has ever known or health care has ever seen.
The initiative is a natural extension of TMC’s original mission to serve the health, education and research needs of Texas and the world. As health care’s largest and most diverse community, TMC is positioned to make a difference in ways no other single institution can. By uniting its unrivaled resources and expertise, the Texas Medical Center can more readily drive the commercialization of breakthrough ideas, expand its reach as a global medical leader and ultimately transform human health.
Since then, TMC has pioneered medical innovations bordering on the impossible. Many of these advancements continue to change people’s lives. This timeline celebrates our milestones and breakthroughs, and the profound impact they’ve made across the entire spectrum of patient care.
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The facility was transferred to the Veterans Administration and renamed the United States Veterans Administration Hospital, and was designated as a teaching hospital, affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. Over the years, surgeon Michael E. DeBakey, M.D., played a major role in the hospital and in developing care for veterans, and the name was officially changed to the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center in 2003.
Photo courtesy of the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library.
Photo courtesy of the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library.
Photo courtesy of the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library.
Photo courtesy of Texas Medical Center.
Photo courtesy of the John P. McGovern Historical Collections and Research Center at the Texas Medical Center Library.
Photo courtesy of Texas Medical Center.
Photo courtesy of Texas Medical Center.
Photo courtesy of Texas Medical Center.
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