Hospital Affiliations

The Memorial Hermann-TMC urology program was recently named among the nation’s best by U.S. News & World Report.

Memorial Hermann Hospital - TMC

Memorial Hermann Hospital is the primary teaching hospital for the UTMS-H. The hospital is immediately adjacent to the medical school and is connected to the UTMS-H main building on all floors. MHH is a private, nonprofit institution founded under a testamentary trust by Houston philanthropist George H. Hermann. In 1968 the hospital affiliated with UTMS-H and became its primary teaching facility. It also serves as a teaching hospital for the other members of The University of Texas Medical School at Houston. By expanding its mission to include education, Memorial Hermann Hospital offers physicians-in-training a broad variety of experiences while providing a level of patient care that is at the forefront of medical practice today.

Under the terms of an affiliation agreement between the Board of Trustees and the Regents of the UTMS-H, members of the hospital’s active staff hold faculty appointments in the medical school.

The first hospital in what is now the Texas Medical Center, Hermann formally opened its doors on July 1, 1925. In the ensuing years it has grown from a community hospital to a facility that is capable of providing tertiary care for the southeast Texas area.

Its 464,000 square feet house six patient floors, and many of the hospital’s ancillary departments. New surgical suites have been added to existing facilities to bring the total to 21 operating rooms. The Department of Diagnostic Radiology located here is equipped with the latest up-to-date imaging devices.

The hospital’s Emergency Center, rated a level 1 trauma center, receives large numbers of trauma patients transported by ground ambulance and by the three Life Flight helicopters, which are based on the hospital’s John S. Dunn Helistop. The highly successful Life Flight program provides air ambulance service, not only to Houston, but also for the entire upper Gulf Coast and Southeast Texas.

In order to care for the large number of emergency patients, the hospital has completely equipped intensive and intermediate care units for surgical, medical and pediatric patients, a cardiac care unit and a neurological surgery intensive care unit.

Patient care units at the hospital include: The Texas Kidney Institute at Memorial Hermann which provides complete renal care services for children and adults, including surgery, inpatient dialysis and transplants. The center is among the largest kidney transplant centers in the country. The Memorial Hermann Burn Center, which uses a multidisciplinary approach to treat burn injuries, includes reconstructive and microvascular surgery and a human skin bank. Memorial Hermann’s obstetrical patients now benefit from the Birthing Suite, Rooming-In, Joint Recovery and patient education programs offered in the Family Center.

Annually the hospital's admissions are 28,000 patients; there are over 42,000 emergency room visits, 13,500 surgical procedures and over 65,000 outpatient visits. The hospital records over 5,300 births annually.

Throughout its long history, Memorial Hermann Hospital has been committed to the education and training of physicians. Its residency programs have operated continuously since the hospital opened in 1925. The affiliation with the medical school enables the hospital to provide clinical experience for 800 medical students and over 750 residents in 25 ACGME accredited training programs. In addition, the hospital provides clinical experience for trainees in more than 15 subspecialty fellowship programs, including the University of Texas – School of Nursing, Medical Technology, and the Schools of Physical Therapy of Texas Woman’s University and The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

Lyndon Baines Johnson General Hospital (LBJ)

LBJ The Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital is a full-service general hospital that opened in mid-1989 and is owned and operated by the Harris County Hospital District.

It adds valuable strengths to the UT-HMS educational program by providing experiences complementary to those previously in programs of the private inpatient setting. Also, there will be excellent opportunities for clinical research at the hospital and for an academic research facility to be located there.

UT-HMS and Baylor have formed a not-for-profit corporation, Affiliated Medical Services (AMS), which allows the hospital district to interact with both medical schools through a single contract. The AMS officers are University of Texas and Baylor faculty members.

LBJ Hospital is located 12 miles northeast of the Texas Medical Center with easy access via US 59, a major expressway. It is on 20 acres of land and is considered part of the Texas Medical Center Campus. The hospital has 430,800 square feet on four floors and 306 beds with the option of adding 200 more without disturbing ongoing operations.

The first floor houses the emergency room, the outpatient clinics and the Radiology Department. The labor and delivery rooms, obstetrical beds, alternative birthing center and all bassinets, including a neonatal intensive care unit, are on the second floor. A joint Medical-Surgical Intensive Care Unit, the six operating rooms, laboratory, heart station, EEG, GI and GU facilities, two surgical patient units and one medical unit are on the third floor. In addition to the six operating rooms, there are two operating rooms for cesarean sections. The surgical suite, which also handles day surgery patients, includes nine inpatient recovery beds and six outpatient recovery beds. The fourth floor contains two pediatric units, one medical unit, occupational and physical therapy departments and administrative offices.

UT MD Anderson Cancer Center (MDA)

MDACC The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ranks as one of the world’s most respected comprehensive centers, with 246,000 people having been treated there since it opened in 1944. Cure is the ultimate goal of all patient care efforts at M.D. Anderson. When the center first opened, less than one in four cancer patients could hope for a cure; today, the five-year survival rate for patients with all forms of cancer is more than 50 percent. Some 1,700 outpatient visits occur daily, eliminating the expense and confinement of a hospital stay.

Patients in each of the clinical subspecialty training areas provide clinical trainees with experience in the natural history, techniques of diagnosis, appropriate therapy and management of malignancies. During their rotation at M.D. Anderson, the resident will have a concentrated exposure to complex inpatient management problems and will gain recognition of the treatability of cancer and of the value of its aggressive clinical management.

Active participation in the ongoing clinical research process provides an unusual opportunity to observe problems relating to investigation and to acquire the habits of accurate information collection and of careful review of collected clinical data.

Eleven basic science departments have postgraduate training programs, and also participate in degree programs offered by the University of Texas – Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences. These departments support the clinical programs through collaborative research projects and by participation in educational programs, seminars, and conferences.

Additional educational opportunities at M. D. Anderson Cancer Center revolve around a comprehensive program of clinical conferences, a 50,000-volume library emphasizing oncology and two nationally recognized annual symposia.

Christus St. Joseph's Hospital

St Joseph's Founded in 1887, St. Joseph's Hospital is a leader in providing both primary and tertiary care to the residents of Houston with many "firsts" associated with their facility.

St. Joseph's covers 12 city blocks in downtown Houston, Texas. Located off Interstate 45 and Highway 59, the hospital is licensed for 800-beds with 435 fully staffed beds. A new patient care pavilion just opened in 1999 to include brand new operating rooms.

The urology rotation at St. Joseph's gives the resident exposure to private practice urology. The supervising faculty at St. Joseph's has worked with our residents for a number of years. Although they are in private practice they maintain an active role in the teaching program and participate in conferences. The residents are exposed to a wide range of urologic problems on this rotation. This includes management of BPH, urolithiasis, erectile dysfunction, and infertility.