Facilities

With advances in psychiatric care over the past decade, all of our patients benefit from state-of-the-art approaches to diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation. A special aspect of clinical practice in our systems of care is that we each have primary responsibility for a large, well defined population in Central Texas—health plan members, veterans, military personnel and their dependents, retirees and a large indigent population. At each training institution, our clinical faculty and trainees stand ready to provide the highest standard of mental health care.

Scott & White Hospital

In 1974, Scott & White Hospital became the clinical education site to train future physicians for the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine.

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science provides inpatient, outpatient and specialized diagnostic and treatment services throughout Central Texas, where the Scott & White Health Plan draws its membership; and to patients from throughout the region and Latin America who come to the Scott & White Clinic for specialty care.

Scott & White Hospital has consistently been named to the Thompson 100 Top Hospitals in the nation. Based on clinical excellence, operating efficiency and community responsiveness, a recent Thompson benchmark study named Scott & White among the elite major teaching hospitals in the country.

Scott & White Hospital, a 463-bed, not-for-profit institution, offers a full range of medical services, from advanced trauma services to neonatal intensive care to transplant technology.

The hospital is staffed by the physicians of Scott & White Clinic, the largest multispecialty medical practice in Texas and one of the largest in the nation. All Scott & White physicians in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science hold faculty appointments with the Texas A&M College of Medicine. Scott & White has sponsored residencies for more than 75 years.

Scott & White opened a new 300-bed hospital at University Medical Campus in Round Rock in 2007. Also, a state-of-the-art new hospital with 417 beds opened on the Temple campus in December 2006.

Central Texas Veterans Health Care System

Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center (Temple, TX)	Austin VA Outpatient Clinic (Austin, TX)	Waco VA Medical Center (Waco, TX)

The Central Texas Veterans Health Care System (CTVHCS) is one of the largest VA medical consortiums in the United States with approximately 2,700 staff and a budget of almost $240 million. It comprises one of the newest VA medical/surgical hospitals in the country (Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center in Temple), a large psychiatric hospital in Waco, several VA nursing home facilities and outpatient clinics throughout Central Texas.

The Teague Center has been a principal teaching campus for the College of Medicine since the college's inception. The CTVHSCoffers a wide range of mental health services to veterans and the community through the Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine Service. Dr. Kathyrn Kotrla, chairperson of the Psychiatry Department, also serves as the medical director for the CTVHCS Mental Health and Behavioral Medicine Service

Carl R. Darnall Army Medical Center

Located in Ft. Hood, Texas, Darnall provides state-of-the-art medical care to active duty and retired soldiers and their family members.

Approximately 50 percent of the patient population is family members of active duty soldiers, leading to a very active Maternal Child Health Program that averages 290 deliveries per month. The pediatric patient population is extensive. Darnall is one of three Army hospitals that train physicians in Emergency Medicine. Darnall also trains residents in orthopedics, pediatrics, general surgery, obstetrics and psychiatry.

Mental health services for active duty personnel and their dependents are integrated with the hospital, primary care system and military command structure.

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Related Links

Temple (Bell County) Central Counties Center for Mental Health and
Mental Retardation (MHMR)

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