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Houston, Texas

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Ben Taub General Hospital

Ben Taub, part of the Harris County Hospital District, is a 578-bed medical and surgical hospital that is nationally recognized for its Level I trauma center. The acute care facilities have psychiatric and pediatric emergency centers, and 11 operating rooms.

Ben Taub General HospitalNearly 40 percent of Baylor College of Medicine's resident physicians are trained at Ben Taub General Hospital and 11 community centers, which are also part of the Harris County Hospital District.

Ben Taub Hospital , at more than 730,000 square feet of space, features a variety of outpatient clinics for a number of medicine, surgery, and pediatric specialties, as well as comprehensive radiology and laboratory support facilities, including interventional radiology. Annually, the trauma center sees about 100,000 patients, while its outpatient clinics see more than 145,000 patients. Last year, staff delivered more than 4,800 babies, performed 10,000 major surgical procedures, and took care of 23,000 hospital admissions.

As the largest hospital in the Harris County Hospital District, Ben Taub provides an impressive range of services, from outpatient general medicine and pediatric clinics, to the most complicated surgical procedures. U.S. military personnel from the Air Force, Army, and Navy have used Ben Taub Hospital to train their surgeons in advanced trauma care available in a large urban hospital.