At the end of last week, the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston broke ground on the new Jennie Sealy Hospital, which is expected to open in 2016.

When the project is completed, UTMB will have more hospital beds than it did in 2008, when Hurricane Ike inflicted more than $700 million worth of damage to the campus. It was certainly not the first hurricane to hit UTMB, which was established in 1891, making it the state’s oldest medical center. But it was particularly devastating — the kind of event that, for those who live and work on the ...

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