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Recognized Excellence
The Belton metro area has access to cutting edge healthcare and state-of–the–art facilities.
The largest not-for-profit health system and the most extensive multi-specialty physician group practice in the state of Texas, is headquartered in this region. They have more than 13,000 employees, 630 hospital beds and over 1,000 staff physicians and research doctors providing healthcare services including complex surgical and transplantation procedures in the region. Baylor Scott & White Partners with Texas A&M’s Health Science Center College of Medicine to train physicians at its four-year medical school.
Part of the 10th largest hospital system in the country Advent Health operates a hospital in the region in partnership with Baylor Scott & White Health offering more than 300 physicians representing 43 medical specialties, 148 acute-care beds and 60 psychiatric care beds in the Advent Health Central Texas Hospital
Baylor Scott & White McLane Children's Hospital
Offering state-of-the-art facilities and highly skilled practitioners in 40 pediatric specialties, including hematology/oncology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, and cardiology. This hospital is the primary academic setting for the Department of Pediatrics at Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and a member of the Children’s Hospital Association.
The Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center
Located in Fort Hood, supports over 35,000 active-duty personnel and more than 100,000 family members as well as retirees within a 40-mile radius. The hospital recently finished a $534 million renovation and expansion to replace their 45-year-old building with a new six-story, 947,000-square-foot hospital.