About Us
Facts
The Methodist Hospital System is a nonprofit health care organization based in Houston, Texas. It has extended the world-renowned clinical and service excellence of its founding entity, The Methodist Hospital, through a network of community-based hospitals.
Affiliated with the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, The Methodist Hospital System works closely with local church leaders to bring compassion and spirituality to all of its endeavors and to help meet the health needs of the community it serves.
A legacy of medical milestones has attracted patients from around the world to Methodist for more than 85 years. In 1996, the System was established to extend TMH's health services beyond the Texas Medical Center and into communities throughout Houston.
Hospitals:
The Methodist Hospital, Houston
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, Baytown
Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, Sugar Land
Methodist Willowbrook Hospital, Houston
International Information Centers:
Mexico and Guatemala
Corporate Financial Information:
$1.2 billion in net patient revenue
$357.9 million in uncompensated charity care and community benefit activities
AA bond rating
U.S.News & World Report’s 2009 “America’s Best Hospitals” placed Methodist upon its prestigious Honor Roll. U.S.News also named Methodist among the country’s top hospitals in 15 of 16 specialties, including: cancer; diabetes & endocrinology; ear, nose & throat; gastroenterology; geriatrics; gynecology; heart & heart surgery; kidney disease; neurology & neurosurgery; ophthalmology; orthopedics; psychiatry; respiratory disorders; rheumatology; and urology. Methodist is ranked in more specialties than any hospital in Texas, and is the only hospital in the south central United States to make the 2009 Honor Roll.
In 2006, The Methodist Hospital was recertified to Magnet status for exceptional nursing.
The 2008 Most Wired Survey and Benchmarking Study ranks Methodist again as one of the country’s most wired hospitals.
FORTUNE magazine has placed The Methodist Hospital System on its annual list of “Best Companies To Work For” since 2006. This year, Methodist ranked No. 8 on the FORTUNE list, making it the highest-ranked health care organization in the country for the second year.
Methodist’s primary academic affiliates are top-ranked Weill Cornell Medical College and New York Presbyterian Hospital. Methodist also has affiliations with the University of Houston, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine and others. Methodist currently sponsors 142 medical residents in 20 programs.
Each year, Methodist contributes millions of dollars to community outreach through charity care, agency funding and numerous local initiatives. In 2009, Methodist funded 24 local health care agencies with more than $2.5 million and contributed $1.6 million to in?kind services that include immunizations and diagnostic tests. Hundreds of charity patients benefited from treatments, totaling more than $50 million.
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