Patient Care Activities at
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital
St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital has 600 hospital operating beds. These beds are "flexible" and are utilized by the different hospital services as needed. At the present time, the Internal Medicine Service is utilizing approximately 300 of these beds. 190 of these 300 beds are in specialized medicine and post-operative surgical units. These units include ICU, CCU, post-operative recovery, progressive care, and telemetry. St. Luke's faculty and residents perform 100,278 outpatient procedures each year. 288 voluntary faculty members of the Department of Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine actively participate in the teaching programs.
New or planned clinical programs at St. Luke's include expanded home health care services, the establishment of the Texas Cancer Institute (TCI), and a new program in diabetes centered around recruitment of the Baylor Rutherford Chair in Diabetes research.
St. Luke's has several areas of clinical excellence, including cardiology, cardiovascular surgery, outcomes management and outcomes research. In addition, training programs for both Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston exist at St. Luke's, adding to the exceptional attributes of the hospital. Clinical faculty members including both general internists and subspecialists work with the house officers in both inpatient and selected outpatient experiences. Patients' problems vary from the common ones seen in the private practice of internal medicine to the difficult problems in the medical subspecialties.
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