About the Center
The Fleming Center was made possible by a large multi-year gift from George Fleming, a prominent Houston attorney, in honor of his father, George McMillan Fleming, Ed.D, FACHE. Dr. Fleming, the Center’s namesake, was a long-term educator and healthcare executive in Texas, serving as CEO of many hospitals in the region. His commitment to healthcare leadership and excellence was demonstrated by his activism in professional associations such as the Texas Hospital Association, where he served as President in 1981, and in the American College of Healthcare Executives, where he earned the prestigious “Fellow” status for his devotion and contributions.
We are grateful for this Fleming contribution, but we also rely on contributions from the local Texas Medical Center community, which has generously supported us in our initial efforts and through grants and industry-sponsored research.
Housed at the University of Texas School of Public Health, a component of the University of Texas Health Science Center, our mission of providing excellence in healthcare management is based on a multi-disciplinary and collaborative approach, which unites a number of different schools and resources from across the University of Texas System.
Beginning in Fall 2009, the University of Texas Health Science Center will be home to one of the state’s leading healthcare management degree programs that addresses and fully integrates all the disciplines that shape health education, research, prevention, treatment and policy in today’s complex, highly regulated environment. The UT School of Public Health through The George McMillan Fleming Center for Healthcare Management will offer a Master of Public Health (M.P.H.) degree, concentration in Healthcare Management. Click here to see more about the course requirements for the M.P.H. Healthcare Management degree. If you would like to know more about the Fleming Center, its faculty, industry leadership, and the M.P.H. program, click here.
The George McMillan Fleming Center for Healthcare Management at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston’s School of Public Health is a new, innovative approach designed to provide healthcare leaders with skills that go beyond the framework of traditional financial and organizational needs of institutions. By uniting with a number of different schools and resources across the University of Texas System as well as other prominent institutions within the Texas Medical Center, the Fleming Center will become the long-needed bridge between the private and public sectors to enhance community health and enable change in public health delivery and organization.
