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Prairie View A&M University College of Nursing
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Prairie View A&M University (PVU) is one of the small number of historically black colleges and universities in the nation. Its School of Nursing has been in operation since 1918 and a member of the Texas Medical Center since 1982. The School of Nursing offers degree programs leading to the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (BSN), “transition” programs for Registered Nurses and Licensed Vocational Nurses seeking the BSN, and the Master of Science in Nursing (MSN). Currently there are approximately 350 students enrolled in various types of nursing programs. In early 2006, the School completed construction of an 118,000 square foot facility that will allow increased enrollment and support advanced nursing research and education. The new facility includes a $2.3 million human simulator laboratory, Nursing Research Laboratory, and a 500-person auditorium. The new space will allow the School to increase enrollment to 500 students.
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The Methodist Hospital and The Methodist Hospital Research Institute
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The Methodist Hospital (TMH), located in the world-renowned Texas Medical Center, is a 1,000-bed adult acute-care hospital. TMH is the largest and most prominent private tertiary care hospital in the south-central United States. Along with its three affiliated hospitals (Methodist-San Jacinto, Methodist-Willowbrook, and Methodist-Sugar Land) in communities surrounding Houston, The Methodist Hospital System has >1,400 beds. The Hospital receives referral patients from throughout the United States, Mexico, Latin America, and many countries worldwide. The large number and wide variety of patients cared for at TMH and its extensive outpatient facilities are integral to our clinical and translational research and education efforts. The Methodist Hospital Research Institute (TMHRI) was established in 2004 to increase the understanding of disease and to create new and effective ways to treat it. The focus of TMHRI is on translational and clinical research. TMHRI researchers currently occupy 80,000 sq. ft. of laboratory space in TMH and are investigating causes and treatments for diseases such as cancer, stroke, heart disease, diabetes, and crippling neurological ailments such as Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS). Ultimately, TMHRI investigators will be housed in a new, state-of-the-art 420,000 square foot building to be located adjacent to TMH and scheduled for occupancy in 2009.
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Texas Southern University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences
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Texas Southern University (TSU), located in Houston, Texas, is the second largest historically Black university in the nation with more than 11,000 students enrolled. Established in 1947 by the 50th Texas Legislature and legislatively designated in 1973 as a “special purpose institution of higher education for urban programming”, TSU is a comprehensive institution of higher education dedicated to providing quality instruction, scholarly research, and socially responsible public service. Consistent with its statutory designations as both a statewide general purpose and a special purpose institution for urban programming, the University offers bachelor’s, master’s, doctoral, and professional degrees. Established in 1949, the TSU College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (COPHS) plays an integral role in providing the health profession industry manpower for the city of Houston, the State of Texas and the nation. In Fall Semester 2006, the College had an enrollment of over 1,800 pre-professional and professional students. The COPHS holds the distinction of being the only academic college in the state to offer the doctor of pharmacy degree and five health sciences programs leading to bachelor of science degrees in environmental health, health administration, health information management, clinical laboratory sciences and respiratory therapy.
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Texas Woman’s University Institute of Health Sciences - Houston Center
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Texas Woman’s University, with its main campus in Denton and two health science institutes in Dallas and Houston, serves not only the north central region, but also the entire state of Texas. TWU is a Doctoral/Research-Intensive public university, primarily for women, offering baccalaureate, masters and doctoral degree programs. A teaching and research institution, the University emphasizes the liberal arts and sciences and specialized or professional studies. Texas Woman’s University is the largest university primarily for women in the United States. The TWU Institute of Health Sciences Houston Center is located in the Texas Medical Center, a world-renowned 685-acre complex of hospitals, health-related schools, and research institutions. Established in 1960, the Houston Center is now located in new facilities at the corner of Fannin Street and Holcombe Boulevard in the heart of the Texas Medical Center. The Houston Center provides an excellent setting for students of health science and related fields. Graduate programs offered in health care administration, nursing, nutrition and dietetics, occupational therapy, and physical therapy are in the vanguard of graduate-level, professional health education in the Southwest. Instructional facilities include simulation laboratories, classroom and seminar space, as well as primary preparation rooms and faculty offices.
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The University of Houston (UH) is the nation’s most ethnically diverse Carnegie Tier I Research university in the country, and the only, four-year, public research university in the nation’s fourth largest city. Consisting of four campuses (UH, UH-Downtown, UH-Clear Lake, and UH Victoria, and two satellite instructional centers), the university has 899 ranked, tenure-track faculty in 12 Colleges and over 40 Research Centers and Institutes, and maintains over 300 active partnerships with corporations, community organizations, and government entities. Degrees are offered at the Bachelor’s (109), Master’s (131), and Doctoral (51) levels, as well as professional degrees in Law, Pharmacy, and Optometry. Total enrollment exceeds 35,000, with over 5,200 graduate students and 1,900 professional students. Basic and applied health-related degree programs and/or concentrations of study are found in most of the university’s colleges, including Business, Education, Engineering, Law, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Optometry, Pharmacy, Social Work, and Technology.
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Houston Comprehensive Community Health Center
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HCCHC is a community-based organization that has a wide base of support from the University of Houston, TMH, and many other philanthropic, community, and government entities. Its formative period began in early 2005 and it is expected to become a formal legal entity in the near future. The goal of the Center is to bring advanced specialty health care, much of it protocol-based and point-of-care, to low-income and otherwise disadvantaged populations in Houston’s 3rd Ward, the most economically distressed ward in the city, and the Meadowbrook-Allendale Milby District. The former is 88% African American, whereas the latter is >70% Hispanic. The inclusion of the HCCHC in the Houston Center for Translational and Clinical Research allows evaluation of the models that presently serve the area, and ultimately result in translation of these models into practices that would apply to other low-income areas throughout Houston and other urban populations within Texas.
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