True to Our Values

The clinical team at UTHealth Houston Neurosciences is part of McGovern Medical School at UTHealth Houston, and our core values mirror those of the medical school. We deliver compassionate patient care focused on quality and safety; promote multidisciplinary collaboration; embrace a culture of lifelong learning and evidence-based practice; support leadership and innovation in patient care, teaching, research, and community service; and advocate for excellent care for the underserved. Those values and the skill of our clinician team have built our reputation for innovation, high-quality outcomes, and the best possible health care experiences, attracting patients from around the world.

Our team of clinicians, researchers, and educators is nationally recognized for leading-edge medicine and consistently ranked by quality benchmarking organizations for clinical quality and patient safety. Our insights, technological innovations, and success at applying research findings at the bedside continue to transform the field of neuroscience.

We are the foremost neuroscience provider in the southern half of Texas. UTHealth Houston Neurosciences is home to a GBS/CIDP Foundation International Center of Excellence, supporting patients with autoimmune neuropathies; a Huntington’s Disease Society of America Center of Excellence; and a Center for Comprehensive MS Care that has been designated a Partner in MS Care by the National Multiple Sclerosis Society. We are a Level 4 National Association of Epilepsy Centers-certified center; our electrodiagnostic laboratory was recently accredited by the American Association of Neuromuscular and Electrodiagnostic Medicine; and we are among a handful of select practices in Walmart’s elite Centers of Excellence Program for spine surgery.

We have extended our continuum of care by creating a citywide network of neurologists, neurosurgeons, neurointerventionalists, neuro-oncologists, neuropathologists, radiation oncologists, interventional pain management specialists, neurocritical care physicians, neuropsychologists, and advanced practitioners. By building a new structure for neuroscience care, we have reduced referral wait times. Our clinicians in Houston’s suburbs analyze quality data and track outcomes as a group using the same standards employed by their counterparts at our UTHealth Houston Neurosciences location in the Texas Medical Center. We continually modify our clinical practice to ensure exceptional patient experiences.

For 15 years, our physicians have reported mortality rates well below the national expected benchmark. Through the Innovation and Quality (IQ) Program; the Epilepsy Tracking and Optimized Management Engine (EpiToMe), an informatics platform that speeds documentation of care and addresses physician burnout; the Texas Institute for Restorative Neurotechnologies; and other initiatives, our leaders are organizing data to improve physician and service performance. We’re also measuring quality and tracking long-term outcomes through clinical trials, and using big data – the colossal amount of information available in the medical datasphere – to advance patient care.