Ben Taub General Hospital is a hospital

Hospital

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 located in Houston, Texas

Texas

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 within the Texas Medical Center

Texas Medical Center

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. Opening in May 1963, the hospital is owned and operated by the Harris County Hospital District

Harris County Hospital District

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 and is staffed by the faculty, residents, and students from Baylor College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

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Ben Taub is a Level I trauma center, one of three in Southeast Texas

Southeast Texas

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, the others being nearby Memorial Hermann Hospital

Memorial Hermann Hospital

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is the largest not-for-profit hospital system in Houston, Texas, and consists of 11 hospitals, 7 Cancer Centers, 3 Heart & Vascular Institutes, and 27 sports medicine and rehabilitation centers, in addition to other outpatient and rehabilitation centers. It was...

 and University of Texas Medical Branch

University of Texas Medical Branch

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 in Galveston

Galveston, Texas

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. At 586 licensed beds, it is one of the busiest trauma centers in the United States

United States

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, caring for over 106,000 emergency patients during its last fiscal year (March 1, 2010 to February 28, 2011). Ben Taub also has the distinction of being the only hospital in Houston with a psychiatric emergency room open 24 hours a day.

The hospital is named after Ben Taub

Ben Taub

Ben Taub , philanthropist and medical benefactor, fourth child of Jacob Nathan Taub, was born in 1889 in Houston .His father immigrated from Hungary to the United States in 1882 and became a tobacco wholesaler. Taub grew up in Houston, where he attended Welch Preparatory School. During World War I,...

(1889-1982), a real estate developer and businessman whose extensive behind-the-scenes philanthropic efforts helped transform Houston.

External links

• Ben Taub General Hospital via Harris County Hospital District
• DeBakey Department of Surgery Summary Statement on Ben Taub General Hospital