AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The journey to building the University of Texas\u2019 patient-centered academic and research medical center in Austin just got a lot smoother.<\/p>\n
Austin residents Tench and Simone Coxe announced Monday that they will invest $100 million in the development of the medical center. It will integrate the work of UT\u2019s Dell Medical School and UT MD Anderson cancer care to \u201cdeliver the highest quality of care in Central Texas.”<\/p>\n
The new medical center will aim to reflect Austin\u2019s rapid growth and increased health care needs, establishing the capital city as a well-known and trusted destination for health care.<\/p>\n
Tench Coxe, a billionare and member of the board of the technology company, Nvidia, said he wanted to invest in a company he felt possessed strong leadership and was compelled to make the gift after meeting Claudia Lucchinetti, M.D., who is UT\u2019s senior vice president for medical affairs and dean of the Dell Medical School.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen you have a chance to back a great leader around a big vision at a school that has a world-class reputation already, it\u2019s just a great opportunity,\u201d Coxe said in a video posted by the university. \u201cWhen we did meet Claudia, my sense was that we had a great leader.\u201d<\/p>\n
Almost a quarter of people in Central Texas have had to leave the area to seek serious medical care, so the new project will have a hospital development reserved for complex and serious conditions to add to Houston\u2019s MD Anderson expansion to Austin.<\/p>\n
The Coxes\u2019 investment is unrestricted, meaning developers can direct the given resources to the areas where they are needed most. According to UT, priorities include recruiting world-class physicians and scientists, construction, technology investment and expanding programs to improve access to health care.<\/p>\n
The gift is one of the largest in UT\u2019s history, and university leaders said the goal is for the medical center to be in operation by 2030.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe believe in the value of UT Medical Center both in terms of delivering services to Austin citizens and also changing the model for health care,\u201d Simone said. \u201cSo, let\u2019s get going.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The journey to building the University of Texas\u2019 patient-centered academic and research medical center in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,5604,35957,163,584,25523,223,27],"class_list":["post-123236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","tag-corinne-piorkowski","tag-education","tag-health","tag-health-and-medicine","tag-news","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}