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Scott & White Memorial Hospital and Clinic |
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www.sw.org
Founded in 1906, Scott & White is a world-renowned, multi-specialty hospital and clinic that also serves as the primary clinical teaching site for Texas A&M University Health Science Center College of Medicine.
- Scott & White employs almost 7,000 people and is the largest private secotr employer in the Temple-Killeen MSA and one of the largest and most successful fully integrated healch care systems in the nation.
- On the Temple campus alone there are some 725 faculty physicians/scientists, over 325 resident and fellow physicians in 27 specialty and sub-specialty training programs and some 220 medical students.
- In addition to the main hospital and clinic in Temple, Scott & White has 4 regional hospitals and 30 regional clinics scattered throughout Central Texas and its own Health Plan with over 200,000 members.
- Scott & White has had a long-standing commitment to medical research, beginning with founder, Dr. Arthur C. Scott, Sr. who pioneered the surgical treatment of cancer and was instrumental in establishing Scott & White as the first cancer center in Texas in 1933.
- Scott & White's research division was fomrally established in 1952 when Dr. Nicholas Hightower came to Temple from the famed Mayo Clinic.
- Currently, the research division conducts research in a wide variety of clinical and basic science disciplines.
- Recently completed projects include:
- an $11 million medical library/education conference center funded jointly with Texas A&M
- a $25 million, 78,000 sq. ft. Scott & White "Pavilion" which houses the Eye Institute, the Center for Pain Management, and Scott & White's Out-Patient Surgery Divions
- a $138 million, state-of-the-art acute care hospital in Temple
- a 50-bed long-term, acute care (LTAC) hospital on the Scott & White Temple campus.
- a 72-bed full service hospital and clinic in Round Rock, Texas
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