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The hospital was founded in 1974 and is licensed as a Level II trauma center. [1] The hospital has 350 beds [2] and is located in the Eastside area of the city. [3] Del Sol is affiliated with Las Palmas Medical Center and is part of the Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare System. [3] Del Sol is the only full-service, acute-care hospital in East El ...
Del Sol Medical Center: El Paso 314 II Dell Children's Medical Center: Austin Travis 181 I Ascension Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas: Austin Travis I Ascension DeTar Healthcare System Victoria 193 III Doctors Hospital at Renaissance Edinburg 519 I Doctors Hospital of Laredo: Laredo 183 III Driscoll Children's Hospital ...
Las Palmas Medical Center, located at 1801 N. Oregon St., near UTEP in West Central El Paso, as seen in June 2023.
In 2007, Garet and Jan Hil founded the National Kidney Registry (NKR) after their daughter (age 10) lost her kidney function and needed a transplant. Both parents were incompatible and could not donate to their daughter, who later, after an extensive donor search, received a living donor kidney from her compatible cousin.
Voters also authorized the construction of the current facility and the hospital was renamed R.E. Thomason General Hospital after former El Paso Mayor, U.S. Congressman and Federal Judge, R. Ewing Thomason. Thomason Hospital officially changed its name to University Medical Center of El Paso on Monday, July 13, 2009. One hospital building will ...
Kidney transplant or renal transplant is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage kidney disease (ESRD). Kidney transplant is typically classified as deceased-donor (formerly known as cadaveric) or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ.
Remote donation utilizes proven logistics systems pioneered in kidney swaps by the National Kidney Registry over the past decade to safely transport the kidney from the donor's local hospital to the transplant center in the distant city. Research has proven that shipping a live kidney for transplant has no significant impact on patient outcomes.
The hospital is located in the Central/Northeastern part of El Paso, and provides emergency department services for Northeast El Paso. The current 1.1-million-square-foot, 6-building medical complex opened July 10, 2021, on East Fort Bliss. [1] WBAMC is affiliated with the Paul L. Foster School of Medicine which is also located in El Paso, Texas.