UMC Health System

UMC Health System is the leader in comprehensive healthcare delivery in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. More than 300,000 patients a year have come to expect our dedication to service and the top-tier care we provide. UMC is operated by the Lubbock County Hospital District and opened in 1978. The primary teaching hospital for the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, UMC Health System is home to the UMC Children's Hospital, the first Level I Trauma Center in Texas, the Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center and the Southwest Cancer Center. For over 40 years, the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has trained more than 10,000 health care professionals, and Texas Tech Physicians comprise the region's largest multi-specialty group practice UMC Physician Network Services is a physician practice management group formed by UMC to manage the hospital’s Community Health Centers and to develop a broad base of primary care patients that would support the hospital and medical school. Specialties include: podiatry, gastroenterology, pediatric surgery, bariatrics, allergy and immunology, obstetrics and gynecology, and pediatric development. UMC Health System employs almost 3,000 people. Both UMC Health System and PNS have been honored among the Best Places to Work in Texas by Texas Monthly, and in 2011 employee satisfaction ranked in the 97th percentile compared with hospitals nationwide.