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World Largest Medical Complex



The Texas Medical Center in Houston has a construction of 2.1 Square miles (5.4 Km2). It’s Located in south Central Houston, south of Museum District and west of Texas State Highway 288. The non-profit umbrella organization has more than sixty institutions between Brays Bayou, Rice University, and Hermann Park. Which is the largest medical center in the world. It has an enormously high density of medical facilities for patient care, basic science, and translational research.

The Texas Medical Center has more than 106,000 employees, annually serves 10 million patients. With 54 medicine-related institutions, with 21 hospitals and eight specialty institutions, eight academic and research institutions, four medical schools, seven nursing schools, three public health organizations, two pharmacy schools and a dental school, university of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Baylor College of Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and Texas A&M College of Medicine. Some member institutions are located outside the city of Houston.


Texas Medical Center History

The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, in 1933, started 248.6- million expansion project which consisted with an inpatient building with 512 beds, an outpatient clinic building, a patient-family hotel, a faculty office building and two research buildings.

George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Sciences Research Building, Ambulatory Clinical Building, Cancer Prevention Center and a new research building on the South Campus opened from 2005 to the Present. In July 2006 opened The Proton Therapy Center, the largest facility in the United States where proton therapy is used to treat cancer. Baylor College of Medicine opened the Baylor Clinic.

After Tropical Storm Allison in 2001, The Memorial Hermann Healthcare System added the six-floor, 165,000-square-foot (15,300 m2) Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute. Around 2006 the 30-story Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza, was completed which is now the largest medical office building in the Texas Medical Center. The construction was part of the system's citywide "Century Project" initiative.

The Texas Children's Hospital announced the largest investment and program expansion ever by a single pediatric organization. The $1.5 billion, four-year initiative was targeted for completion in 2010 and focused on research and accessibility.

Which included the development of the neurological research institute ($215 million), the formation of a maternity center ($575 million), and the expansion of existing research facilities ($120 million).

Texas Children's that would become one of the largest pediatric hospitals ($ 220 million).

In 2010, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, including the John Sealy Hospital, became the 49th member of the Texas Medical Center and the first member-institution located outside the City of Houston.

Texas Medical Center–West Campus, serving residents of greater west Houston and adjacent areas, opened in January 2011.

In 2012, Texas Medical Center added the Shriners Hospitals for Children in Galveston, which treats pediatric trauma burns, as its 50th member institution.

In 2016, Texas Medical Center added San José Clinic, the community's leading charity care clinic, as a member institution.

Medical Center as its newest member, as it continues to grow and provide extraordinary healthcare and education at affordable prices.


Mariana Gómez, Daniela Castro and Alyxa Kalysta Quintero

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