On the heels of this announcement regarding Methodist Hospital‘s expansion, St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in Houston’s Texas Medical Center announced a $200 million expansion project that will involve razing the original St. Luke’s Hospital building and the construction of a 10 story patient care center. St. Luke’s is the home of the famous Texas Heart Institute.
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 major hospitals in the Texas Medical Center. Baylor College of Medicine, one of two medical schools in the Medical Center, has traditionally used Methodist as its primary teaching hospital, but has recently expanded its relationship with St. Luke’s amidst widespread speculation that Baylor is considering termination of its relationship with Methodist. It will be interesting to see how or if Methodist’s expansion impacts Baylor’s decision on whether to maintain its long relationship with Methodist.
The Houston Chronicle reports today that the FBI has commenced an investigation into teen porn websites that certain individuals at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston apparently visited on a regular basis. The UT Health Science Center is home to the University of Texas Medical School, one of two medical schools (Baylor Medical School is the other) in Houston’s famed Texas Medical Center.
The Kirkendall family has long and deep ties with the UT Health Science Center. My late father–Dr. Walter M. Kirkendall–was a longtime and loved Professor of Medicine at the UT Medical School at Houston from 1972 until his death in 1991, and the school still holds an annual lectureship in his name. I also have a brother (Matt of Dubuque, Iowa) and sister (Mary of Boerne, TX) who graduated from the UT Medical School at Houston.