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Rebecca Sealy Hospital was an eight-story
hospital A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment. The best-known type of hospital is the general hospital, which typically has an emerge ...
, and one of five hospitals on the campus of the
University of Texas Medical Branch The University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) is a public academic health science center in Galveston, Texas. It is part of the University of Texas System. UTMB includes the oldest medical school in Texas, and has about 11,000 employees. In Febr ...
(UTMB) in
Galveston, Texas Galveston ( ) is a coastal resort city and port off the Southeast Texas coast on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas. The community of , with a population of 47,743 in 2010, is the county seat of surrounding Galvesto ...
, United States. It was founded in 1866 as St. Mary's Hospital, a private, Catholic, general hospital, but was purchased in 1996 by the
Sealy & Smith Foundation The Sealy & Smith Foundation is a charitable foundation incorporated in Texas and based in the island city of Galveston. It was established in 1922 by John Sealy, II and his sister Jennie Sealy Smith with a charter stating a mission to: The fo ...
. The foundation renamed it and donated it to the university for use as a psychiatric, outpatient surgery, and research hospital.


Hurricane Ike

In 2008, severe flooding from
Hurricane Ike Hurricane Ike () was a powerful tropical cyclone that swept through portions of the Greater Antilles and Northern America in September 2008, wreaking havoc on infrastructure and agriculture, particularly in Cuba and Texas. Ike took a sim ...
damaged all UTMB facilities, including Rebecca Sealy Hospital. The inpatient psychiatric unit closed and the building was renovated into offices and simulation labs.


See also

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John Sealy Hospital __NOTOC__ John Sealy Hospital is a hospital that is a part of the University of Texas Medical Branch complex in Galveston, Texas, United States. History Sealy opened on January 10, 1890. It was founded by the widow and brother of one of the rich ...
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List of Texas Medical Center institutions This is a list of institutions of the Texas Medical Center. Patient care institutions * Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center, affiliated with and partially owned by Baylor College of Medicine. * Ben Taub General Hospital, part of the Harris H ...
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List of hospitals in Texas List of hospitals in Texas (U.S. state), sorted alphabetically. References {{Portal bar, Texas Texas Hospitals A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healt ...


References

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