Awards and Honors

Why Quality Matters

UTMB Health is dedicated to providing a world-class patient experience for our patients by delivering the most advanced care and providing the highest level of safety in our hospitals and clinics so patients can have the best possible outcomes.

Quality of care rankings and awards help patients make informed decisions on which health care providers deliver the highest quality of care in a safe environment.  While recognition for our ongoing efforts to deliver the best care is nice, the true value of quality of care rankings and awards is helping patients decide with confidence where to seek care.

 

What UTMB’s commitment to safety and quality of care means for our patients:

Best Care

Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right way, for the right person – and have the best possible results – every patient, every time.

Patient Safety

Avoiding complications and adverse events, like bed sores, blood infections or clots, and surgical infections, following surgeries, procedures and childbirth.

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Patient Outcomes

Lower readmission rates, average length of hospital stay, frequency of complications, and mortality rates.

Comprehensive Care

Providing the complete spectrum of care with treatments by leading specialists.

Better Access

An integrated system of care with primary and specialty clinic locations and hospitals close to where you live, work and play.

Temple receives Society of Prevention Research award

Dr. Jeff Temple, director of UTMB’s Center for Violence Prevention and a licensed psychologist, received the 2021 Prevention Science Award from the Society of Prevention Research (SPR).

The SPR, founded in 1991, is dedicated to advancing scientific investigation on the cause and prevention of social, physical and mental health and on the translation of that information to promote health and well-being. The Prevention Science Award is given to an individual or team for significant research that has applied scientific methods to test preventive interventions or policies.

Dr. Temple is a professor in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the founding director of the Center for Violence Prevention. Dr. Temple received his Ph.D. from the University of North Texas and completed his clinical internship and postdoctoral fellowship at Brown University Medical School. His clinical interests include postpartum depression, cognitive behavioral therapy and motivational interviewing; and his research focuses on interpersonal relationships, specifically adolescent dating abuse.

“SPR is my research home and is made up of the world leaders in prevention science. Being recognized by them and this organization means everything to me,” Dr. Temple said.