UMC Health System is the leader in comprehensive healthcare delivery in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. More than 300,000 patients a year have come to expect our dedication to service and the top-tier care we provide. Since opening in 1978, UMC has been the first to offer lifesaving services to the region. UMC's Children's Hospital was the first to have neonatal and pediatric intensive care units. UMC maintains the region’s only Level I Trauma Center. UMC's Timothy J. Harnar Burn Center is the only one of its kind between Denver and Dallas. Through UMC’s partnership with Texas Tech University, the health system produces groundbreaking research and innovative technology, including a number of nationally recognized clinical trials in breast and prostate cancers. Patients of the Southwest Cancer Treatment and Research Center are treated with the most modern medical systems available. UMC Health System employs almost 3,000 people. The system has been honored among the Best Places to Work in Texas, and in 2009 employee satisfaction ranked in the 97th percentile compared with hospitals nationwide. We hope you will choose UMC Health System, where “Service is Our Passion.”