Baylor University Medical Center (Baylor Dallas or BUMC), part of

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, is a not-for-profit hospital in

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. It has 1,200 licensed beds and is one of the major centers for patient care, medical training and research in North Texas. In 2013, Scott & White merged with Baylor Health Care System to form Baylor Scott & White Health. The medical center is affiliated with the

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History

In 1903, the hospital opened as Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium in a 14-room renovated house with 25 beds. It received its charter from the state government in October 1903 and had financial support from the

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. The nursing school was established in 1918. The hospital was renamed Baylor Hospital in 1921 and then Baylor University Hospital in 1936 to emphasize its relationship with the Baptist-affiliated

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. The

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, College of Dentistry and School of Pharmacy were co-located with the hospital. The

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Maternity Hospital opened in 1937 on the same grounds. Financial difficulties due to the ongoing

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forced the College of Medicine to move to

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. The hospital faced an uncertain future since it no longer had the support of an affiliated medical school and its buildings were in need of renovation. Some of the physicians at the hospital who were also professors at the College of Medicine chose to stay with the hospital instead of moving to Houston. The 1950s signaled a milestone in the development of the hospital. With the construction of the seven-story, 436-bed George W. Truett Memorial Hospital in 1950, Baylor became the fifth-largest general hospital in the country. In 1959, Florence Nightingale Maternity Hospital was replaced with a newly expanded Women's and Children's Hospital, later renamed Karl and Esther Hoblitzelle Memorial Hospital. At this point "medical center" was accordingly added to the hospital name. Baylor Health Care System was formally established in 1981 with Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas as its flagship hospital and corporate headquarters. Since 1982, the Baylor University Medical Center has displayed the

Adrian Flatt hand collection The Adrian Flatt hand collection is a collection of plaster and bronze casts of human hands on display at the Baylor University Medical Center in Dallas, Texas. The casts were created by orthopedic surgeon Dr. Adrian Flatt (1921—2017), and the co ...

, which, according to Dr. Jay Mabrey, is the most popular site on the Baylor University campus.

References

External links

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