State Approves School of Public Health, Psychiatric Hospital, and Performance-Based Funding for Research

During the state’s 87th Legislative Session, UT Southwestern advanced three priorities on behalf of the patients, students, and communities we serve. An institution-specific research operations formula pilot designed to deliver performance-based funding was made permanent, providing a more predictable long-term mechanism for UTSW to secure adequate state support to continue growing our leading-edge biomedical research enterprise. In addition, the Legislature endorsed a new School of Public Health and provided $10 million in initial funding. Finally, UTSW partnered with the Texas Health & Human Services Commission to secure approval and funding to develop plans and purchase land for the first state psychiatric hospital in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The new psychiatric hospital will help meet the acute and growing need for inpatient mental health services across North Texas.

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