From new clinics that improve Central Texans’ access to care to partnerships that expand Dell Med’s reach and impact, our — your — Year in Health has been transformative. Read some of the highlights of 2017.
Internationally acclaimed artist Ann Hamilton unveils ONEEVERYONE, a community-based photography project created for Dell Med. The Landmarks series, featuring more than 500 individuals impacted by health care, sparks vital conversations about care and community.
S. Gail Eckhardt, inaugural director of the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes, begins her leadership of Dell Med’s work to reinvent the continuum of cancer care. With partners such as the LIVESTRONG Foundation, the institutes focus on patient-centered support and collaborative research.
A specialty care pilot project that cut wait times from a year to three weeks for low-income patients. A team working with the community to find local solutions to local problems. Experts changing the system to provide better outcomes at lower costs. Dell Med is making progress.
The primary teaching hospital for Dell Medical School students, graduate-level medical residents and faculty physicians opens. Seton Healthcare Family, part of Ascension, funded, owns and operates the hospital, which is a Level 1 trauma center for the region.
As students from Dell Med’s inaugural class begin training and providing care in community hospitals and clinics, the school welcomes 50 new first-year students. Their abilities and experiences will help them revolutionize how people get and stay healthy.
A new group of residents and fellows — doctors-in-training who work under the supervision of an attending physician — arrives at Dell Med. Among the facts reported in Dell Med’s 2017 Community Impact Update: Since 2012, the number of residents providing care in Central Texas has risen by more than 30 percent.
Merck announces plans to locate its next tech hub in Austin. The pharmaceutical giant’s future-focused facility will be housed in Dell Med’s Health Discovery Building and will be a key anchor for the Innovation District developing around Dell Med.
The Department of Oncology — Dell Med’s ninth academic department — is created. Alongside the LIVESTRONG Cancer Institutes, its focus is on advancing the full spectrum of cancer education, research and care in Austin and Travis County, where cancer is the No. 1 cause of death.
UT Health Austin, the team-based clinical practice of Dell Med, begins serving Central Texas. The first clinics focus on care for a select-but-growing list of conditions including joint pain, multiple sclerosis and complex gynecological disorders.
Dell Med creates the Department of Diagnostic Medicine, led by R. Nick Bryan. One of only a handful of its kind, the department focuses on developing partnerships with local clinical practices to redefine how diagnostic testing is designed, delivered and leveraged to improve health.
Dell Med hosts 50 student leaders from 25 medical schools across the U.S. in conjunction with the Choosing Wisely Students and Trainees Advocating for Resource Stewardship (STARS) program. They learn strategies for implementing core concepts of value-based health care.
Jane Edmond, an expert in eye health, plans to return to The University of Texas at Austin to lead the Wong Eye Institute and the Department of Ophthalmology at Dell Med. Her vision is that patients will travel to Austin for the signature ophthalmologic care made available here.
Which of these milestones would you like to learn more about in 2018?