Researchers can take advantage of the Houston Methodist Research Institute, a 440,000-square-foot facility that’s connected to Houston Methodist Hospital. Located in the research institute, the Houston Methodist Institute for Technology, Innovation and Education features a virtual hospital, procedural skills lab and high-tech operating rooms where physicians and surgeons learn new skills.
Houston Methodist Hospital performed one of the first heart transplants in the U.S. in 1968, during what became the world’s first simultaneous multiple-organ transplant. The system’s primary academic affiliates are the Weill Cornell Medical College at Cornell University and New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia and Cornell.
The Houston Methodist Center for Performing Arts Medicine provides specialized treatment for musicians and other performing artists, including members of the Houston Symphony, Houston Ballet and Houston Grand Opera. The hospital group is the official health care provider for the Houston Texans football team, Houston Astros baseball team, and the Houston Dynamo and Houston Dash soccer clubs.
Houston Methodist Hospital in Houston, Texas is nationally ranked in 8 adult specialties specialties and rated high performing in 2 adult specialties and 9 procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility. It is a teaching hospital. Founded in 1919, Houston Methodist Hospital is located at the Texas Medical Center. It’s the flagship facility in a system of more than a half-dozen hospitals located throughout the Houston area, including Houston Methodist San Jacinto Hospital, Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital and Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital.
At Houston Methodist Hospital, patients can receive specialized care in one of its six centers of excellence – including the Houston Methodist J.C. Walter Jr. Transplant Center, which supports patients undergoing organ or tissue transplants, or those facing advanced organ failure. Physicians within the Lynda K. and David M. Underwood Center for Digestive Disorders research and treat ailments of the esophagus, stomach, biliary tract, pancreas and other parts of the digestive tract. Houston Methodist offers a weight management program, which is available at Texas Medical Center as well as at other hospitals in the system. And the hospital system has maternal fetal medicine doctors who specialize in high-risk pregnancies.
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