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 chippy split with between Baylor and Methodist. Here are earlier posts on the Baylor-Methodist divorce.
Executives at Methodist claim to be “dumbfounded” at th e move and claim that the transfer reneges on a previous agreement between the two institutions regarding involving the allotment of residents.
This latest dispute is only the latest in a series of disputes that have arise after Baylor and Methodist’s decision to part ways in April ended an historic 50-year Texas Medical Center relationship during which the hospital was Baylor’s primary teaching hospital for its medical students and residents. St. Luke’s is Baylor’s new teaching hospital and Methodist’s new primary partner is Cornell University’s medical school, which is located in New York.
In other Medical Center news, this Chronicle article reports that Memorial Hermann Hospital System and The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston renewed their agreement in which Memorial Hermann serves as the school’s primary teaching hospital. UT-Houston and Hermann — which have been partners since 1968 — agreed to continue their partnership for 15 more years.
Under the renewal, UT-Houston purchased the Hermann Professional Building and adjacent garage for $31 million and renamed the building the University of Texas Health Science Center Professional Building. It will be UT-Houston’s first outpatient clinic, and its location (across the street from UT-Houston) will be convenient for UT-Houston faculty and students.