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The Perfect Fit: Putting the Pieces Togetherby Ruth SoRelle
The true picture of academic health care and biomedical advancement lies not with the scientist, educator or clinician who singularly achieves, but rather with the unyielding strength that comes from working together. Today, Baylor College of Medicine is reaching out like never before in order to combine strengths and capabilities to advance health care. BCM's partners include clinical, educational, research, governmental, and commercial institutions - many longstanding and some recent. These critical alliances play an increasingly important role in all mission areas of the College. Baylor recognizes that the future of modern health care depends increasingly on a sharing of ideas, resources and inspiration. Like a jigsaw puzzle, it is only when all the pieces are joined that we truly see the picture.
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At the behest of VA officials, Dr. Michael E.
DeBakey, then chair of surgery at BCM, organized
the first medical staff for the fledgling Houston
VA hospital in 1949. Today, the hospital is known
as the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical
Center. The relationship between the two
institutions has continued and grown as each has
expanded its role in delivering health care to
military veterans in Southeast Texas. BCM's
primary federal government teaching hospital,
the DeBakey VA is recognized in the federal
system for the excellence of the care provided,
particularly in the areas of specialized diagnosis, radiation therapy,
cardiovascular surgery, gastrointestinal endoscopy, ophthalmology,
nuclear medicine and the treatment of spinal cord injury and
diseases. BCM and the VA facility provide important educational
opportunities to students and residents and participate in joint
educational, research and patient care programs.
The cornerstone of health care in Harris
County, the Harris County Hospital District
has a long history of providing care to the
medically indigent. Baylor College of Medicine
officially affiliated with Jefferson Davis Hospital
in 1949, but its doctors and students began working there as
soon as the College moved to Houston in 1943. In 1968, BCM
amended its affiliation to encompass the newly created Harris
County Hospital District. As the needs of the county's uninsured
have grown, BCM's involvement with the District has grown as
well. Today, Ben Taub General Hospital is home to one of the
nation's busiest trauma centers. BCM also staffs Quentin Mease
Community Hospital, a 49-bed long-term rehabilitation
facility that also houses a 24-bed geriatric program, as well as
six community health centers and the Thomas Street AIDS Clinic.
Ben Taub serves as BCM's primary local public teaching hospital
through which students and residents rotate.
Texas Children's Hospital, the nation's largest children's
hospital, affiliated with BCM in 1954, shortly after
it opened its doors in the Texas Medical Center. Texas
Children's is BCM's primary pediatric teaching hospital.
In cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural
Research Service, TCH and BCM operate the Children's Nutrition
Research Center staffed by 50 BCM faculty and 200 staff members.
The hospital has garnered widespread recognition for its expertise and breakthrough
developments in the treatment of cancer, diabetes, asthma, HIV, heart problems,
conditions that affect premature infants, and attention-related disorders.
It consistently rates as one of the top children's hospitals in the
nation. BCM professors also are the service chiefs and staff
physicians of Texas Children's more than 40 patient care centers. For
two consecutive years, the pediatric research collaboration between
BCM and Texas Children's has ranked No. 1 in grant funding from the
National Institutes of Health.
Building on a partnership between then
assistant administrator Ted Bowen and
Dr. Michael E. DeBakey, the chair of surgery
at BCM, the College affiliated with The
Methodist Hospital in 1950, before it even opened the
doors of its new Texas Medical Center building.
Today, as a private, adult teaching hospital
affiliated with BCM, the institution has more
than 1,500 beds and participates in joint
educational, research and patient care programs
with BCM, hosting a number of its signature
programs and its centers of excellence.
BCM's newest hospital affiliate, the
Menninger Clinic allied with the College
in 2002 and moved its facilities from
Topeka, Kansas, to Houston in 2003. Long
respected for its psychiatric programs, the
Menninger Clinic provides important treatment
options to the Houston community while
participating in research and the education of
psychological and psychiatric professionals.
Students from the Menninger Department of
Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at BCM now
complete their advanced residencies at the
Menninger Clinic. These trainees maintain
rigorous schedules, which include both coursework
and patient care under the supervision of internationally
renowned clinicians. The 159-bed clinic provides six treatment
programs that serve adults and adolescents and deal with
substance abuse, behavioral and major psychiatric disorders.
Affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine
since 1961, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
is BCM's primary private adult teaching
hospital and partner in the new Baylor
Clinic. Through a partnership based on
shared values and a mutual commitment to
providing the most up-to-date, effective, and
compassionate care, St. Luke's and BCM are
dedicated to creating a patient and family-centered health
care experience that integrates the very best in clinical care,
research, education and community outreach. St. Luke's
was built in the Texas Medical Center in 1954 and is
acclaimed as one of the nation's finest and most respected
hospitals, delivering primary and tertiary health care to
patients from the Houston area and around the world.
Home to the Texas Heart Institute, St. Luke's is recognized
for the strength of its programs in cardiology and vascular
care, orthopedics, oncology, urology, neurology and
neurosurgery, liver and digestive health, palliative care,
rehabilitation and women's services.
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson
Cancer Center, the top cancer hospital in
the United States, affiliated with BCM
in 1984. Together, the two institutions
collaborate on a number of research and
educational programs, including the Bone
Disease Program of Texas, the Childhood
Cancer Epidemiology and Prevention Center,
the STAR breast cancer trial, various adult and children's
cancer research treatment programs, the Gulf Coast
Consortia and the Alliance for NanoHealth. Created in
1941 by the Texas Legislature as a component of The
University of Texas system, M. D. Anderson is the state cancer hospital
but draws patients from all over the world. Known for its
active clinical research programs, the hospital provides
cutting edge treatment to the 65,000 patients who seek
care there annually. It ranks first in research awards
from the National Cancer Institute and annually
spends more than $250 million on research programs.
The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research
can trace its beginnings to the pioneering
work of its founder Dr. William A. Spencer,
who began treating polio patients at
Jefferson Davis Hospital in the 1950s.
Its Texas Medical Center facility was
officially dedicated in 1959, and TIRR
affiliated with BCM in 1963. A model for Texas
Medical Center cooperation, it has affiliations with BCM
and The University of Texas Health Science Center
at Houston, and faculty from both institutions treat
patients within its confines. TIRR provides care to
people with head injuries, spinal cord injuries as well
as a host of other ailments that require rehabilitation.
It is consistently ranked among the top
rehabilitation hospitals in the United States and is
home to BCM's physical medicine and rehabilitation
programs, where residents receive training unavailable in
most places in the United States.