August 14th 2010
UT System approves new University Hospital
Artist’s rendering of the new UT Southwestern University Hospital.
DALLAS — Aug. 12, 2010 — The UT System Board of Regents today gave its approval to plans for a new state-of-the-art University Hospital at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. The project now will go to the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for its review and final approval. As planned, the new hospital will replace University Hospital – St. Paul, which opened in 1963 and has become too costly to maintain and renovate as an academic medical center in the years ahead, according to Dr. Daniel K. Podo