The UT Board of Regents to restore Galveston's John Sealy Hospital

The University of Texas System Board of Regents voted unanimously to restore the 500-bed John Sealy Hospital and trauma center to its pre-hurricane operations, and to build a new surgical tower.

Also UTMB has 350 Million Pending in Texas House Budget

House budgeted $700 million to be paid from the state’s rainy day fund, UTMB would get $350 million

If approved by the Legislature, the biggest share of the money, at $354.5 million, would go for rebuilding and other expenses at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, which was devastated by Hurricane Ike.

UTMB is important not only to Galveston, but statewide, since patients have come for treatment from other parts of Texas, officials noted.