{"id":480341,"date":"2026-02-20T18:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T18:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T18:14:34","slug":"uts-academic-medical-center-will-not-be-built-at-erwin-center-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/480341\/","title":{"rendered":"UT&#8217;s Academic Medical Center will not be built at Erwin Center site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>University of Texas System Chairman Kevin Eltife said Wednesday that UT\u2019s new Academic Medical Center will no longer be based downtown at the former site of the Frank Erwin Center, the historic home of UT\u2019s basketball teams.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs our two institutions continue to work collaboratively over the last year, it became apparent the proposed Erwin Center location would not be as conducive to the fully integrated, patient-centered approach that was being envisioned,\u201d Eltife said at a Wednesday UT Regents board meeting. \u201cThere would be limits to future growth on that site\u2026 At the board\u2019s request, our teams have studied and have now recommended moving the future medical complex.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, UT officials <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/news\/local\/2023\/08\/13\/ut-austin-texas-campus-md-anderson-hospital-cancer-center-partnership-frank-erwin-center\/70586486007\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans to build an academic medical center<\/a> in partnership with cancer treatment center MD Anderson in a\u00a0bid to significantly expand Austin\u2019s healthcare opportunities and the footprint of UT\u2019s medical presence. The campus will have two hospitals: an MD Anderson Cancer Center and a UT specialty care hospital.\u00a0Officials said at the time that they expected groundbreaking to begin in 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The new center\u00a0\u2014 a $2.5 billion project\u00a0\u2014 will be \u201cone of the biggest projects of this generation,\u201d Eltife said in November. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.utexas.edu\/research\/medical-center\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">UT\u2019s website claims<\/a>\u00a0Austin is the largest city without an academic medical center.<\/p>\n<p>UT spokesperson Mike Rosen said the university is still on track to open the complex in 2030 but doesn\u2019t know when groundbreaking will start.<\/p>\n<p>UT officials had planned to use the Erwin site for the expansion of the medical campus prior to the 2023 announcement of the MD Anderson partnership. The site was ideal given its proximity to the main campus, Austin\u2019s downtown and UT\u2019s Dell Medical School.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe couldn\u2019t be more excited about bringing this project forward, uniting UT MD Anderson\u2019s renowned cancer care with UT Austin\u2019s academic medical center and world class research enterprise,\u201d Eltife said Wednesday. \u201cThe result of this partnership will allow Texas to harness both institutions&#8217; mission, patient care, education, innovation and research to create a once-in-a-generation opportunity to define the future health care of Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MM_onlineOnly\" title=\"CCI Online Only\">This is a developing story and will be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"University of Texas System Chairman Kevin Eltife said Wednesday that UT\u2019s new Academic Medical Center will no longer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480342,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[97,252,253],"class_list":["post-480341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health-care","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-healthcare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}