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Texas Medical Center
All the hospitals are so close together it might as well be one giant hospital.
Total beds: 6,500
http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/FactsandFigures/FactsAndFigures.htm
All the hospitals are so close together it might as well be one giant hospital.
Total beds: 6,500
http://www.texmedctr.tmc.edu/root/en/GetToKnow/FactsandFigures/FactsAndFigures.htm
DMU's main affiliate is 917 beds with busiest ER in Iowa not bad for a DO school.
http://www.mercydesmoines.org/about_mercy/index.cfm
http://www.mercydesmoines.org/about_mercy/index.cfm
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If you are going to lump multiple hospitals together then there are actually quite a few hospital systems well above the 1594 listed in the prior post. Eg Mass General may have 898, but when you combine it with Brigham and the several other Harvard affiliates, the total is much bigger. Quite a few other systems similarly are underestimated by virtue of only looking at the single hospital totals.
True, My estimate would be that USUHS (Uniformed Services) would have the most total teaching beds of any school.
Mayo - Saint Mary's 1157, Rochester Methodist - 319
I know its been a couple of years since it happened but what exactly happened with Baylor and Methodist Hospital?
From what I understand, Methodist got upset about Baylor building its own hospital and they ended up splitting. Baylor continues to lose some of its faculty to Methodist, but it hasn't really hurt them. The whole thing was blown way out of proportion and Baylor students still can do rotations and their preceptorships there.
The USUHS may have the largest number of total beds, but they are located throughout the world. The TMC hospitals are all within 4-5 blocks of each other. Thus, you have access to the 10,000+ beds with just a 15 min. walk, rather than a 3-15 hour flight
Can either Baylor or UT Houston really rotate through all those hospitals? Some of them are a bit off-access, right?
The harvard hospitals are on opposite sides of town. Thats no comparison to the behemoth TMC. Largest medical center in the world.
I believe that each school has ~4 different affiliate hospitals that students primarily rotate through. However, I believe that if you are interested in rotating at the other institutions that you can.
i.e. Baylor student rotates at MD Anderson which is a UT Houston affiliate.
Current students feel free to correct me. That is the gist I got at both interviews.
UT-Houston lists its official teaching hospitals as Memorial Hermann, LBJ General Hospital (Harris County Hospital District), Texas Heart Institute, and UT County Psychiatric Center. I also know that as said before MD Anderson is a a UT associated school. I think Baylor's main teaching Hospital is Ben Taub (Harris County Hospital District).
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Moving to Topics in Healthcare as some of the frequenters of that Forum may have a better idea of the answer to this.
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In terms of actual size, Jackson Memorial in Miami is the largest single site hospital. USC in So. Cal. is the largest non-single site.
I don't see huge hospitals as something to brag about, or necessarily be excited about. My current institution is big enough that it takes a good 10 minutes to walk from the call room to one of the wards or the emergency department. It can take 20 minutes to get from the two farthest wards. It's a big hassle and very tiring. Getting X number of calls here at night is much worse than getting the same number at one of the smaller hospitals in town. I go to the smaller places for the ease of parking alone. That's why I'm mostly looking at smaller hospitals for my residency.
