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• John Sealy Hospital services include women’s, infants’ and children’s care, medical/surgical services, acute care for the elderly, transplant services, burns care, and critical care, among others; approximately 300 beds currently (John Sealy Hospital and TDCJ Hospital beds)
• About 80 primary and specialty clinics open on Galveston Island and the mainland
• UTMB Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes scheduled to open in early 2010; will complement existing medical services in north Galveston County and south Harris County
• More than 66,000 telemedicine encounters every year—the largest such program in the world; AT&T Center for Telehealth Research and Policy at UTMB the only center in the nation devoted to demonstrating the efficacy of telehealth technology
• Among many “firsts”:
  • Faculty developed the most widely used screening tool for bipolar disorder worldwide and have adapted it for use in adolescents
  • The first in the Southwest to obtain a daVinci Robotic Surgery system
• Centers of clinical excellence advance care by drawing upon knowledge generated in research enterprise:
  • International leader in burns care
  • Forty-year partnership with first of three Shriners hospitals dedicated to pediatric burns resulted in advances such as pressure garments, nutritional support and pain management that are now standard treatments worldwide for severely burned children; now investigating how knowledge of inflammation seen in burns could inform research on host of chronic conditions affecting Texans (including asthma, diabetes and aging)
  • Blocker Burn Unit for adults has one of the highest survival rates in the U.S.
  • UTMB experts have trained more than 125 burn specialists now in practice and authored 80% of burn textbooks worldwide
• Women's and children's health
  • Includes 29-site Regional Maternal and Child Health Program, which serves nearly 110,000 women and children from 104 Texas counties
  • Breast Imaging Center one of 13 throughout Texas to be designated a Center of Excellence by the American College of Radiology
• Diabetes, metabolism and obesity
  • Stark Diabetes Center has more than 600 patient visits each month
  • Cutting-edge research includes first published account of ability to transform umbilical cord stem cells into insulin-producing cells
  • Center for Weight Management deemed one of only three Level 1A Centers of Excellence in Texas by the American College of Surgeons
• Diagnosis and treatment of solid tumors
• Transplant medicine
• Molecular cardiology
• Correctional Managed Care program has increased quality of care for state’s inmate population while dramatically reducing state’s costs through an integrated medical, dental and mental health care delivery system
  • Begun in 1994 for TDCJ; 1996 for Texas Youth Commission
  • Program ranks among the lowest-cost major adult prison health care systems in the nation
    (approximately $8.65 per patient per day)
  • The first prison health care system to utilize 340B Pharmacy Pricing
  • Recognized as the national leader in the use of telemedicine within a correctional setting
  • Developed one of the first and largest Electronic Medical Record deployed within a correctional health care system in the country
  • Strictly adheres to evidence-based medicine and disease management guidelines