A businessman named Monroe Dunaway Anderson created The Texas Medical Center in 1936. He wanted to use to his money to benefit of mankind. He and his trustees came up with the idea of building a Medical Center right next to Hermann Hospital. The idea was to have a medical center consisting of many different academic institutions and hospitals and support organizations. The land was made available at no cost to the institutions, seed money was provided and a general appeal for funds was made to the people of Texas. Mr. Anderson founded the M.D. Anderson Foundation with an initial endowment of $300,000. The fund’s first gift was a check in the amount of $1,000 to the Junior League Eye Fund for eyeglasses. When Mr. Anderson died, he left $19,000,000 to the organization, the single largest charitable fund ever created in Texas.
In 1941 the State Legislature granted the University of Texas $500,000 for the purpose of starting a cancer research hospital. In 1943 the M.D. Anderson Foundation offered Baylor University College of Medicine - then in Dallas, Texas - $1,000,000 for construction of a facility and $100,000 a year for the next ten years if Baylor College would come down to Houston. The Houston Chamber of Commerce added $500,000 to the bid. Baylor accepted the offer.
By 1954 the Texas Medical Center had eleven institutions: four hospitals, two children’s hospitals, a university, a library, a speech & hearing center, a dental school, and an overall planning and coordinating group.
Today, the Texas Medical Center in Houston is a 42-member institution – each existing to serve all of mankind. Many of the institutions are working to make the Texas Medical Center quality of care convenient to even more people by putting satellite centers in neighborhoods throughout Houston and the surrounding communities. The county’s two trauma centers are located in the center as are institutions specializing in every conceivable aspect of health care: care of children, cancer patients, heart patients, organ transplantation, terminal illness, mental health, wellness and prevention.
The facility is growing daily with acquisition of land and new buildings. In a few short decades it has grown into one of the world’s finest medical complexes. The fusion of the businessperson, the healer and the scientist has produced one of the most remarkable achievements in the history of medicine!
| Baylor College of Medicine | |
| Michael E DeBakey High School for Health Professions | |
| Houston Academy of Medicine – Texas Medical Center Library | |
| Houston Community College System, Health Science Programs | |
| Prairie View A&M University, College of Nursing | |
| RICE University | |
| Texas A&M University Health Science Center – Institute of Biosciences & Technology | |
| Texas Heart Institute | |
| Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences | |
| Texas Woman’s University Institute of Health Sciences – Houston | |
| University of Houston College of Pharmacy | |
| The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – Dental Branch, Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Harris County Psychiatric Center, Medical School, School of Health Information, Information Sciences, School of Nursing, School of Public Health | |
| The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| Harris County Hospital District Ben Taub General Hospital (for Trauma), Lyndon B. Johnson General Hospital, Quentin Mease Community Hospital and 13 Neighborhood Health Centers | |
| The Hospital at the Texas Medical Center | |
| Memorial Hermann Hospital | |
| The Methodist Hospital | |
| St. Lukes Episcopal Hospital | |
| Shriners Hospital for Children (and burn victims) Houston | |
| Texas Childrens Hospital | |
| TIRR (The Institute for Rehabilitation and Research) | |
| The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center |
| City of Houston Dept of Health & Human Services | |
| Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center | |
| Harris County Medical Society | |
| Houston Academy of Medicine | |
| Houston Academy of Medicine Texas Medical Center Library | |
| The Institute of Religion and Health | |
| Joseph A. Jachimczyk Forensic Center Off. Of Medical Examiner Harris County | |
| John P. McGovern Museum of Health and Medical Science | |
| LifeGift Organ Donation Center | |
| Ronald McDonald House of Houston Inc. | |
| Texas Medical Center Corp. |
Well, Houston offers without a doubt - some of the finest healthcare facilities in the world. We have one of the finest schools of medicine the Baylor College of Medicine right in the heart of the city. At the Med Center, in the heart of the city, is a cluster of hospitals that specialize in just about everything: from pediatrics to geriatrics, from trauma to headaches. These hospitals are all related to teaching institutions and some of the finest physicians in the world practice here.
| Major TRAUMA | Ben Taub Hospital | 713-873-2000 |
| Pediatrics | Texas Children's Hospital | 832-824-1000 |
| Cancer | M.D. Anderson Cancer Center | 713-792-6161 |
| Heart Disease: | St. Luke's Hospital | 832-355-1000 |
| The Methodist Hospital | 713-790-3311 | |
| Hermann Hospital | 713 704-4000 | |
| Therapy and Recovery | TIRR | |
| Burn Victims | Shriner's Hospital | |
| Veterans: | The VA Hospital | |
Once you decide on the neighborhood where you want to live, I will provide you with a FREE list of the places of worship, schools and the hospitals that service your area of choice, along with other important phone numbers. All you have to do is email me or call me. [Raka Auntie - maybe this paragraph should be moved to your Introduction page since it pertains to several different types of services that are described on your website> -BKH]