Methodist Hospital
www.methodisthealth.com
Client since 1999
The Methodist Hospital in Houston, TX, is the largest general hospital in the region, and one of the nation's largest private, non-profit hospitals with more than 1,000 beds. Dedicated to providing the highest level of patient care, Methodist, home to famed heart surgeon Dr. Michael DeBakey, is the site of numerous medical breakthroughs, such as the world's first multiple-organ transplant in the 1960s, gene therapy for prostate cancer, and the first islet cell transplants in Texas. Methodist's primary academic affiliations are with Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital in New York.
The hospital, which broadcasts The C.A.R.E. Channel on the television on its inpatient units, is named among the country's top hospitals in nine different specialties by U.S. News and World Report. In 2004, Methodist was named by Solucient as one of the top 15 teaching hospitals in the country. Methodist has been recognized by Hospitals and Health Networks as one of health care's "100 Most Wired" for its use of the Internet to connect patients, physicians and nurses, employees, suppliers, and health plans. Methodist's medical staff includes hundreds of physicians listed in The Best Doctors in America, who, along with other health professionals, offer expert preventive services, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up care in virtually every medical specialty.
The Methodist Hospital is part of The Methodist Hospital System, which consists of three other hospitals: Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, and San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Methodist is a charter member of the Texas Medical Center, which is made up of 42 not-for-profit medical institutions.
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