About Seton

Seton Healthcare Family
Fact Sheet

Annual figures as of June 30, 2011, unless otherwise noted.

The Seton Healthcare Family is the leading provider of health care services in Central Texas. Founded at the request of Mrs. Thomas Taylor and the Austin Ladies of Charity in 1902 by the Daughters of Charity, today Seton operates 38 facilities that serve 1.9 million residents in an 11-county area.

Reinventing Health Care to Serve Patients

Seton has a new vision for health care: a person-centered model that is safer, more efficient and produces better results. We are an active member of the accountable care movement that is reshaping the delivery of care and its cost curve. Seton is investing in technologies and staff to help patients manage their chronic conditions – asthma, congestive heart failure, diabetes – and achieve a better quality of life.

Community Service

Seton is an advocate for an innovative, integrated and just system of care. In Fiscal Year 2010, Seton provided $303 million in charity care and $219 million in community benefit to improve community health.

Medical Education and Research

In concert with the University of Texas System and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School, Seton is advancing graduate medical education and translational research. UTSW offers 11 residency programs at Seton facilities. The Seton/UTSW Clinical Research Institute is under development and Seton supports the establishment of a medical school on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin. These initiatives will increase the supply of physicians and other caregivers in Central Texas and foster leading edge therapies. Commercialization of some treatments will propel economic development in Austin and vicinity.

Seton's Clinical Education Center at Brackenridge provides interdisciplinary training to nurses, physicians and therapists in a state-of-the-art teaching facility equipped with high-fidelity mannequins and fully-functioning skill labs.

Clinical Achievement

Seton has earned a reputation as a leader in clinical quality. It operates a regional trauma network that includes the area's only Level I trauma centers for adults and children. Dell Children's Medical Center is home to a broad array of pediatric subspecialists, including a top-rated epilepsy program and comprehensive craniofacial and plastic surgery program for congenital malformations and traumatic injuries. The Seton Labor and Delivery service, the first recipient of the Texas Health and Human Services Quality Award, is a model for other hospitals. For two decades, the Seton Heart Specialty Care and Transplant Center has performed heart transplants and now offers ventricular assist devices (VAD) to advanced heart failure patients who do not qualify for transplants.

Seton medical centers are international destinations for clinicians the globe over striving to improve the quality and accessibility of care and services. Visit our Locations pages for specific accreditations and awards.

Spirituality

Seton, a Catholic ministry, is a member of Ascension Health, the nation's largest nonprofit system. Chaplains are available 24/7 to provide spiritual and emotional support to patients and their families. Seton hosts an accredited interfaith clinical pastoral education program.