Methodist Hospital System is the tenth highest growth companies in the world. Its 1 year Revenues is $1,587(millions). Stephen L. Goeser Chief executive officer of Methodist Hospital system.
What makes it so great? Last year Methodist added a new program called "No One Dies Alone," in which employees volunteer time with terminal patients.
The Methodist Hospital corporation 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 corporation 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.
The Methodist Transplant Center was founded in July of 1984. The past perspectives of the Center are truly the foundation of its success.
When the first heart transplant in Texas, among the first in the country, was performed at The Methodist Hospital in 1968, it seized the public's imagination. Open-heart surgery itself was scarcely more than 20 years old, and the bold drama of transplantation offered hope to victims of end-stage heart failure. Well before the Methodist/Baylor team performed its first transplant, however, important groundwork had been laid that would support kidney, heart, and other organ transplant procedures.
By 1963, corneal and kidney transplants were being performed at Methodist. Between 1968 and 1969, twelve heart and two lung transplants were performed by the Baylor College of Medicine surgical teams.
Problems with rejection made overall survival rates unacceptably low, however, and a temporary pause in activity was placed on heart transplantation in 1970. Meanwhile, our ongoing corneal and kidney transplant programs continued, as did research begun in the 1960's on ventricular assist devices and the artificial heart.
By the early 1980's, better understanding of the immune system, advances in detecting rejection, and the introduction of the immunosuppressive drug cyclosporine provided the momentum to reconsider heart and other non-renal organ transplants. Physicians and surgeons also were encouraged by the successes of our kidney transplant program. So on February 22, 1984, after a 14 year hiatus, DeBakey again led a team that performed a successful heart transplant. Some members of this surgical team had participated in the first heart transplants as residents.
This new era of transplantation demanded a new approach to organ transplantation in general. A faculty and administrative committee from Methodist and Baylor recommended the creation of a transplant center for all organs, at that time a unique concept. The idea was to integrate existing islands of experience and expertise into a cohesive group that could successfully practice transplant medicine and surgery in an efficient, cost-effective manner without disrupting existing traditional departmental and sectional lines. The bottom line was teamwork.
The Methodist Transplant Center of The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine was officially established in 1985, with support from the Cullen Trust for Health Care. Our comprehensive program includes heart (both heterotopic and orthotopic), heart-lung, single and double lung, liver, kidney, pancreas, cornea, and bone marrow transplants. The Center became affiliated with the DeBakey Heart Center to enhance active clinical and basic research programs. Additionally, our surgical team has expertise and experience in implanting total artificial hearts and a variety of ventricular support devices.
On August 6, 1987, we became the first Medicare-designated Heart Transplant Center in Texas and one of the first seven in the country. This designation recognized our experience and excellence in heart transplant medicine.
Today our success depends not only on worldwide medical advances but also on our own teamwork and network of institution-wide support. Our organization covers every aspect of patient care with fine-tuned resources. We rely heavily on a variety of social support systems, such as those provided by the Pastoral Care and Social Services departments. All of this allows us to work together for the benefit of the patient.
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