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Acquired by
UTMB in 1996, Rebecca Sealy Hospital is named in memory of the wife of John
Sealy I. It houses UTMB’s day surgery services, the Regional Psychiatric
Hospital for Mental Health–Mental
Retardation patients, and inpatient and partial hospitalization programs
for the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences. It also houses
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation’s administrative offices
and clinics.
Rebecca
Sealy, with her brother-in-law George Sealy, was instrumental in determining
that John Sealy’s bequest of $50,000 for “a charitable purpose” be used to
build the first John Sealy Hospital. She was also a major force in the
subsequent founding in 1890—the year the hospital opened—of the first
nursing school in Texas, Galveston’s John Sealy Hospital Training School for
Nurses.
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