Texas: UTMB hospital to remain on Galveston Island

by E Wayne Ross on March 11, 2009

Houston Chronicle: UTMB hospital to remain on Galveston Island

AUSTIN — The University of Texas Medical Branch hospital and medical school, devastated last year by Hurricane Ike, will remain on Galveston Island, according to a plan approved Tuesday.

But the plan by the University of Texas Board of Regents depends on significant funding from the state and federal governments, philanthropic sources and perhaps even a taxpayer-funded hospital district to succeed, officials said.