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Dr. Don W. Chapman, R.I.P.
Longtime Houstonian Dr. Don W. Chapman died last Thursday at the age of 90 (a Chronicle article is here). With Don's passing, Houston has lost one of the extraordinary group of doctors who catapulted Houston's Texas Medical Center into one...
Update on university endowments
The financing of public universities (see here and here) and college education generally (see here) have been frequent topics recently, so this National Association of College and University Business Officers publication ranking the 765 top endowments of U.S. universities is...
Thinking beyond the UH Medical School
BlogHouston.net's Kevin Whited notes this Chronicle/Todd Ackerman article about the University of Houston floating a proposed new Texas Medical Center-based medical school in a collaborative project with The Methodist Hospital and Cornell University's Weill Medical School. Unfortunately for UH, the...
A patient of the surgery he created
This NY Sunday Times story by Lawrence K. Altman, MD reports that one of Houston's greatest surgeons continues to be on the cutting edge of surgical and related medical issues even as he approaches 100 years of age: In late...
Baylor Med decides to go it alone
The Houston professional community and the Medical Center was abuzz yesterday with Baylor College of Medicine's announcement late this week that the school will construct a new teaching hospital in the Texas Medical Center and end its recent affiliation with...
Texas Medical Center players make nice
The Chronicle's Todd Ackerman, who has done a fine job over the past couple of years of covering the divisive split between former Texas Medical Center partners, Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital -- reports today that Baylor...
AG intervenes in Baylor-Methodist squabble
The Chronicle's Todd Ackerman continues his fine reporting on the saga of the Medical Center divorce between The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine with this report that Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has engaged the feuding ex-partners in...
The Robertsons of Houston
The late Corbin Robertson, Sr. was a bright business mind when he came to Texas as a young man from Minnesota in the 1940's. After marrying Wilhelmina Cullen -- the daughter of famous Houston wildcatter Hugh Roy Cullen -- Mr....
New Chron blog reports on medical research funds
The Houston Chronicle has added another blog -- Eric Berger's SciGuy -- to its impressive and expanding Chronicle bloglist that Chronicle tech writer Dwight Silverman has spearheaded. Kudos to Dwight and the Chronicle editors for being pioneers in this emerging...
TMC rejects Baylor complaint on Methodist
As predicted here and here, this Todd Ackerman/Chronicle article reports that the Texas Medical Center managers' board of directors rejected Baylor College of Medicine complaint's Wednesday that the Medical Center's historic charter and deed restrictions prohibit Methodist Hospital's creation and...
Baylor Medical School lays the wood to Methodist
Following up on a story noted in this earlier post, the Chronicle's Todd Ackerman continues his outstanding reporting over the past year on the historic split between Baylor Medical School and Methodist Hospital with this article in which he reports...
Thoughts about Texas university endowments
This handy document ranks the size of the 741 largest university and college endowments in the United States. Although most of the largest endowments are held by well-known institutions, there are surprises even among the biggest endowments. Not many people...
Merger rumblings in the Medical Center
The Texas Medical Center has already been rocked over the past year by the split between longtime partners Baylor Medical School and The Methodist Hospital, but today's Chronicle article by Todd Ackerman adds a new level of uncertainty for the...
Baylor lobs another grenade at Methodist
Seems like it's been awhile since we checked in on the ongoing divorce between those former Texas Medical Center partners, Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine. Here are the earlier posts on the historic divorce between the medical school...
More on the impact of the Baylor-Methodist split
On the heels of this fine earlier series on the breakdown of the primary teaching hospital relationship between Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital in Houston's famed Texas Medical Center, the Chronicle's Todd Ackerman teams with fellow Chronicle...
The historic Medical Center divorce
Todd Ackerman is the Houston Chronicle reporter who has been doing an outstanding job covering the termination of the Methodist Hospital's 50 year primary teaching hospital relationship with Baylor College of Medicine that occurred last year. Here are the earlier...
Baylor-Methodist split -- heading to court?
Todd Ackerman reports in this Chronicle article on the latest flare-up in the divisive Texas Medical Center divorce of Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital after a highly-productive 50 year marriage. Here are the earlier posts on this...
Another major change in the Medical Center
As these earlier posts reflect, a huge Texas Medical Center rift arose earlier this year between Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital over Baylor's decision to terminate its 50 year relationship with Methodist and make St. Luke's Episcopal...
Texas Childrens Hospital Heart Unit celebrates 50th year
One of many benefits of living in Houston is the extraordinary Texas Children's Hospital located in Houston's famed Texas Medical Center. Texas Children's -- as Houstonians call it -- is truly one of the most remarkable medical facilities for children...
Dan Duncan gives $35 million to Baylor College of Medicine
Kicking off a capital campaign, Baylor College of Medicine announced Wednesday it has received a $35 million gift from Baylor trustee and longtime Houstonian Dan Duncan to kick off the building of a new Baylor-operated clinic in the Texas Medical...
Latest chapter in Baylor-Methodist divorce
This Chronicle article reports on the the latest dustup between longtime partners Baylor College of Medicine and the Methodist Hospital -- Baylor has started moving residents to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, which is generating even more acrimoney in the already...
More Medical Center political strife
Daniel Arnold, a member of the Baylor College of Medicine board of trustees and the former chairman of that board, has sent the full board a July 14 letter calling for Baylor President Dr. Peter Traber to be fired for...
Baylor threatens litigation against Methodist
The stakes in the ugly divorce between Baylor College of Medicine and The Methodist Hospital (earlier posts here) that has had medical officials in Houston's famed Texas Medical Center chattering for months just zoomed through the roof. As predicted here...
Another Baylor doctor defects to Methodist
Deep divisions in the Texas Medical Center resulted from the decision of Baylor College of Medicine to terminate its 50 year relationship with the Methodist Hospital earlier this year. One by-product of the split is that Baylor and Methodist began...
Methodist Hospital continues on the offensive
After the controversial split earlier this year (previous posts here) with longtime partner Baylor College of Medicine, The Methodist Hospital has been announcing a series of bold moves as it attempts to define its post-Baylor research and teaching role in...
More Baylor-Methodist split fallout
Following on this post of earlier this week regarding the brewing divisions in the Texas Medical Center resulting from the decision of Baylor College of Medicine to terminate its 50 year relationship with the Methodist Hospital, this Chronicle story reports...
Methodist: "Docs, time to choose"
This earlier post reported on the controversial decision of Baylor College of Medicine earlier this year to sever its long ties with The Methodist Hospital and switch its teaching hospital relationship to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital. That news rocked the...
Baylor faculty members go public with criticism of move from Methodist to St. Luke's
This Chronicle story reports on a recent letter from seven Baylor College of Medicine faculty members to the Baylor Board of Trustees that predicted "a crisis of major proportions" if the Baylor Board followed through with its decision to sever...
The DeBakey-Cooley rift
One of the most well-known stories of Houston lore -- yet not discussed publicly much -- is the long-time rift that has existed between two giants of cardiovascular surgery and of Houston's amazing Texas Medical Center, Dr. Michael DeBakey of...
Big Medical Center news: Baylor picks St. Luke's over Methodist
In a move that has been expected for over a year but nevertheless shakes the foundation of Houston's huge Texas Medical Center community, Baylor College of Medicine announced yesterday that it is ending its 50 year primary affiliation with Methodist...
Heart developments in the The Medical Center
The Texas Heart Institute and the DeBakey Heart Center in Houston's Texas Medical Center are two of the best cardiovascular surgical care facilities in the world. Yesterday, the Texas Heart Institute announced that the 12th and only living recipient of...
Methodist Hospital Announces Major Expansion Project
The Houston Chronicle reports today that Methodist Hospital in Houston's Texas Medical Center has announced a huge expansion that will likely cost just under a billion dollars when completed. Methodist Hospital and St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital are two of the...
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