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The Texas Medical Center, with one of the highest densities of clinical facilities for patient care, basic science, and , USA . The center contains 45 medicine-related institutions, which include 13 hospitals and two specialty institutions, two Medical Schools , four Nursing schools, and schools of Dentistry , Public Health , Pharmacy , and other health-related careers. All 45 institutions are Not-for-profit . The center is where one of the first, and largest, air ambulance service was created and where a successful inter-institutional transplant program was developed. More heart surgeries are performed at the Texas Medical Center than anywhere else in the world. http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/AboutTMC/About+the+TMC.htm The Texas Medical Center receives over 5 million annual patient visits including over 10 thousand international patients. In 2006, the center employed over 73,500 people, including 4,000 physicians and 11,000 registered nurses. http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/FactsandFigures/FactsAndFigures.htm Adjacent to the center are Rice University , Hermann Park , Reliant Park and the Museum District . HISTORY Founding and early years The Texas Medical Center was established in 1945 through the generous philanthropy of businessman Monroe Dunaway Anderson. Anderson believed that a medical center that consisted of many different hospitals, academic and research institutions and support organizations should be built in Houston, next to Hermann Hospital . Anderson founded the M.D. Anderson Foundation prior to the charter of the medical center with an endowment of $300,000. The fund's first gift was a check of $1,000 to the Junior League Eye Fund for eyeglasses. Two years after establishing the M.D. Anderson Foundation, Anderson died, leaving $19 million to the organization, the largest charitable fund ever created in Texas. In 1941, the Texas State Legislature granted funds to the University Of Texas for the purpose of starting a cancer research hospital. The M.D. Anderson Foundation matched the state's gift to the university by supplying funds and land to construct the hospital. President , St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, The Methodist Hospital , The Shriners Crippled Children's' Hospital (now known as Shriners Hospitals For Children ), and the Houston Academy Of Medicine-Texas Medical Center Library . The M.D. Anderson Hospital For Cancer Research of the University of Texas began construction in 1953. Texas Children's Hospital admitted its first patient in 1954. During the late 1950s , the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research opened. The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Hospital and Tumor Institute at Houston added the Gimbel Research Wing. Texas Woman's University Nursing Program began instruction. In 1962 , the Texas Heart Institute was chartered and became affiliated with St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital and Texas Children's Hospital . Ben Taub General Hospital of the Harris County Hospital District opened. Recent history and developments In 1993, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center began a $248.6-million expansion project which constructed an inpatient pavilion with 512 beds, two research buildings, an outpatient clinic building, a faculty office building and a patient-family hotel. From 2005 to present, the George and Cynthia Mitchell Basic Sciences Research Building, the Ambulatory Clinical Building, the Cancer Prevention Center and a new research building on the South Campus opened. The for profit Proton Therapy Center, the largest facility in the United States where proton therapy is used to treat cancer, opened in July of 2006. M.D. Anderson opens new proton therapy center, July 16, 2006 . ''Houston Chronicle'' The Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is constructing the six-floor, 165,000-square-foot Memorial Hermann Heart & Vascular Institute. Also recently completed is the 30-story Memorial Hermann Medical Plaza, which is now the largest medical office building in the Texas Medical Center. At night, it is recognizable by its unique rainbow lantern. http://www.memorialhermannmedicalplaza.com/common/pdf/04BAR004_insert_bldgspec_HR.pdf The new construction is part of the system's city-wide "Century Project" initiative. Baylor College of Medicine with affiliated St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital opened The Baylor Clinic on June 29, 2005, a new adult outpatient center. A second structure, to be completed in 2008, will provide an estimated 250,000 square feet of additional space for ambulatory care. PATIENT CARE INSTITUTIONS
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS Academic and research institutions
Secondary schools SUPPORT FACILITIES
HOUSING The Texas Medical Center {Link without Title} operates the Laurence H. Favrot Tower Apartments; only medical professionals and other staff members of the Texas Medical Center and their dependents may live in the apartments. Education Residents of the apartments are zoned to Houston ISD schools: Michael E. DeBakey High School For Health Professions , a public magnet school, is located east of the Texas Medical Center. INFRASTRUCTURE The area is served by , Dryden/TMC Station , and Memorial Hermann Hospital/Houston Zoo Station ). Emergency services Fire services The Houston Fire Department Station 33 Medical Center is near the Texas Medical Center at 7100 Fannin @ South Braeswood {Link without Title} . Police services The Texas Medical Center is within the Houston Police Department 's South Central Patrol Division {Link without Title} . Postal services The United States Postal Service Medical Center Station is located at 7205 Almeda Road, 77054-9998. NOTES SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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