Scott & White Hospital

The plaque ends in the 1990s with figures. The Handbook records a change in the hospital's role: in 1979 Scott and White and the Olin E. Teague Veterans' Center became the teaching hospitals for the Texas A&M University College of Medicine. Students completed two years of clinical study in Temple, and the whole Scott and White professional staff served as the college's faculty. By the Handbook's 1990s account the hospital also ran satellite clinics in Killeen, Belton, Moody, Hewitt, Gatesville, Waco, Taylor, McGregor, Bellmead and College Station, and funded staff physicians and scientists for special research projects.

What the plaque says

Scott & White Hospital The Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railway established the town of Temple in 1881 and located the Santa Fe Railway Hospital at Temple in 1891. Dr. Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr. (1865-1940) became Chief Surgeon of the Railway in 1892. In 1895 he hired Dr. Raleigh R. White, Jr., (1871-1917) who was promoted to co-chief Surgeon by 1897. Doctors Scott and White formed a private practice partnership in 1897, and in 1904 they opened a hospital known as the Temple Sanitarium. Located in downtown Temple, it was renamed Scott & White Hospital in 1922 and expanded to six city blocks. The hospital became a training facility for nurses and doctors. Several new divisions of specialized medicine were added after World War II, and the hospital gained a national reputation for medical research. Following relocation to this site in 1963, the hospital expanded. By 1995 more than 6,000 people were employed here, and over one million patient visits were recorded. The largest group practice in Texas, Scott & White continues as a leader in the development of health care and has become a world-renowned medical facility. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Temple Railroad and Heritage Museum — 1.6 mi
  The Santa Fe depot of 1911 in a railroad town that began in 1880 as a construction camp, now a museum with locomotives and cars parked beside the active rail yard.
• Mother Neff State Park — 19 mi
  A Leon River park that grew from six acres Isabella Neff left the state in her 1921 will, where Civilian Conservation Corps Company 817 built a stone tower, a pavilion and roads in the 1930s.
• Milam County Courthouse and Jail — 28 mi
  Cameron's 1892 Renaissance Revival courthouse and the 1895 St. Louis-built jail beside it, now the county museum, are listed together on the National Register.

More markers nearby

• Former Site of Scott & White School of Nursing — steps away
• Arthur Carroll Scott, Sr., M.D. — steps away
• Raleigh R. White, Jr., M.D. — steps away
• George Valter Brindley, Sr., M.D. — steps away