University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center
| The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center | |
|---|---|
Main entrance to UT Tyler Health Science Center | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Tyler, Texas, United States |
| Organization | |
| Affiliated university | The University of Texas at Tyler |
| History | |
| Founded | 1947 |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
| Lists | Hospitals in Texas |
The University of Texas at Tyler Health Science Center (UT Tyler HSC, UTTHSC) is the health science education branch of the University of Texas at Tyler (UT Tyler) academic campus in Tyler, Texas on U.S. Highway 271. UT Tyler HSC was chartered in 1977 by the University of Texas System Board of Regents. UTHSCT is the only academic medical centre in Northeast Texas. UT Tyler HSC was originally named "East Texas Tuberculosis Sanitarium", established in 1947 as a tuberculosis treatment facility at the location of the retired World War II U.S. Army Infantry Training Base called Camp Fannin. It eventually became a state hospital known as the East Texas Chest Hospital. Following the 1977 acquisition by The University of Texas System, it became The University of Texas Health Science Center at Tyler (UTSHCT).
The institution served Northeast Texas, like UT Health Northeast, until the 2018 expansion of clinical operations through a merger with the former East Texas Medical Center to form the clinical affiliate, UT Health East Texas (UTHET).