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The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas, [5] and has about 11,000 employees. [6] As of April 2024, it had an endowment of $763 million. [7]
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Level 1 trauma center affiliated with McGovern Medical School (formerly UTHealth Medical School) Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital; Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, affiliated with BCM; Rebecca Sealy Hospital, part of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. [1] [2]
Sealy opened on January 10, 1890. It was founded by the widow and brother of one of the richest citizens of Texas, John Sealy after his death.Accompanied by the John Sealy Hospital Training School for Nurses, which was opened two months after the hospital, the foundation became the primary teaching facility of University of Texas Medical Branch opened in October 1891.
The Ashbel Smith Building, also known as Old Red, is a Romanesque Revival building located in Galveston, Texas. [2] It was built in 1891 with red brick and sandstone. [3] Nicholas J. Clayton was the architect. It was the first University of Texas Medical Branch building.
After visiting 21 university-based medical institutions, the decision was made to build the first pediatric burn unit on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston (UTMB). [3] In 1963 the "Shriners Burns Institute" began operation in a seven-bed ward in John Sealy Hospital , the teaching hospital for UTMB.
Rebecca Sealy Hospital was an eight-story hospital, and one of five hospitals on the campus of the University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) in Galveston, Texas, United States. [1] [2] It was founded in 1866 as St. Mary's Hospital, a private, Catholic, general hospital, but was purchased in 1996 by the Sealy & Smith Foundation. [3]
As one of the oldest and more historically significant cities in Texas, Galveston has had a long history of advancements and offerings in education, including: the first parochial school (Ursuline Academy) (1847), the first medical college (now the University of Texas Medical Branch) (1891), and the first school for nurses (1890). [citation needed]
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