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18 | June 2009 Community Impact Newspaper • Northwest Austin Edition ARC_CommImpact_Walk-inPhysicals_ 05132009.indd 1 5/27/2009 4:36:35 PM Leander Loop 360 Cedar Park Loop 1 / MO-Pac Expy to Kyle 1 Ben White Blvd Round Rock Pflugerville Hutto
Austin medical school sidelined by Hurricane Ike By Patrick Brendel The recession and Hurricane Ike forestalled efforts to bring a medical school to Austin during the Texas Legislative Session. Poor economic conditions made for a state budget with little room for major new projects, especially in light of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to rebuild Galveston, its medical school and other areas also hit by Ike. Realizing the impracticality of making a medical school proposal at this time, state legislators did not file a single bill during the session related to an Austin medical school. The State Legislature did, however, pass legislation committing to build a medical school in Harlingen. Currently, the only medical school on the Texas- Mexico border is the new Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in El Paso. “That’s been determined to be a high-need area. There are those that essentially want to get it on record that, if there’s going to be a medical school, it needs to go in an area where we really need to bring in larger numbers of physicians,” said state Rep. Donna Howard, D-Austin. “But that doesn’t preclude having something happen in Austin as well.” Rio Grande Valley legislators were unable to procure funding for their future medical school. Instead, the bill allows University of Texas regents to take steps toward creating the medical school by the year 2015. The price tag on the Harlingen medical school is expected to be more than $100 million. (State lawmakers appropriated $300 million toward rebuilding the Ike-damaged University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston.) Looking toward the future, Austin still possesses qualities that are conducive to establishing a medical school: its central location, UT’s flagship campus, a prominent medical community and cooperative business leaders. One encouraging sign is the announcement that UT Southwestern Medical School in Dallas plans to take over the residency program at Seton Family of Hospitals. That means an increase in the number of El Paso residents trained. Howard said the existence of the Texas A&M Health Science Center in Round Rock would not halt the potential creation of a new medical school in Austin. Texas A&M-Round Rock is geared toward training practitioners, while a potential Austin medical school would be research-based. “They would be different types of medical schools,” she said. Texas medical school campuses * Proposed Amarillo Lubbock What are you doing this fall? There’s still time to register for ACC’s fall semester. Check the course schedule online at austincc.edu. Forth Worth Round Rock San Antonio impactnews.com June 2009 | 19 Temple College Station Comm Impact Fall 09 reg 10 x 6.5.indd 1 6/2/09 11:23:43 AM 40 Odessa 10 20 Sponsored by UT system Texas A&M system Texas Tech system 37 35 10 Dallas Harlingen * Baylor UNT 20 Corpus Christi Houston Galveston
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