Governor Abbott Touts Expanding Rural Healthcare At UT Tyler Medical School Groundbreaking - Office of the Texas Governor

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January 23, 2023 | Austin, Texas

Governor Greg Abbott contiguous touted the State of Texas' ongoing efforts to summation healthcare entree crossed the state, peculiarly successful agrarian communities, astatine the University of Texas astatine Tyler (UT Tyler) Medical School groundbreaking ceremony. The Governor was joined astatine the ceremonial by UT Tyler President Kirk A. Calhoun and UT System Board of Regents Chairman Kevin Eltife.

"As East Texas continues to grow, truthful does its request for much highly skilled and well-trained healthcare professionals," said Governor Abbott. "I americium arrogant to beryllium present contiguous astatine UT Tyler Medical School's historical groundbreaking arsenic we observe the achievements and advancement Texas has made to grow healthcare entree and acquisition opportunities crossed our state. Creating this schoolhouse was a precedence successful the 87th Legislative Session, and I convey members of the legislature, President Calhoun, and Chairman Eltife for their hard enactment to guarantee this important authorities reached my desk. Together, we are fostering greater wellness outcomes for the radical of East Texas and empowering the adjacent procreation of doctors, nurses, and aesculapian unit to service each Texans." 

In 2021, Governor Abbott signed Senate Bill 1, approving a caller aesculapian schoolhouse for UT Tyler to grow healthcare entree successful agrarian East Texas communities. Led by Chairman Eltife, the UT System Board of Regents approved a connection successful February 2020 to motorboat efforts to found the aesculapian school. UT Tyler Medical School volition beryllium the archetypal of its benignant successful East Texas. 

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