New TX teaching hospital lands $25M gift

Guess what well-known health-oriented foundation is giving a $25 million matching gift to help build Austin's new teaching hospital? That's right. The Michael & Susan Dell Foundation's pledge to match private donations to the Seton Healthcare Family's new hospital, dollar for dollar, puts fund raising "way ahead of schedule," Seton's President and CEO Jesús Garza said Tuesday. The hospital will be called the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas when it opens in 2017 as the main place for training new doctors and medical students at the UT Dell Medical School. "With the Dell Medical School being built right now, we felt like this was a great next step," Susan Dell, co-founder and chairwoman of the foundation board, said at a news conference.