Houston Methodist

What began as a small 100-bed hospital has grown into a leading academic medical center in the Texas Medical Center, along with seven community hospitals and one long-term acute care hospital throughout the Greater Houston metropolitan area. The system consists of eight hospitals total, with Houston Methodist Hospital serving as its flagship academic hospital. Houston Methodist has built a legacy of medical milestones that attracts patients from around the world. The organization operates as a Christian organization established by the Texas Annual Conference of the United Methodist Church, while employing persons regardless of religious perspective. For nurses, Houston Methodist offers a range of roles from direct patient care to clinical research nursing, with a structured clinical practice model based on Benner's model of nursing competence. The organization emphasizes professional development, with positions structured from novice to expert levels. Houston Methodist has been recognized on Newsweek's America's Greatest Workplaces 2026 list, earning a 4.5-star rating based on more than 2.7 million company reviews across over 37 million data points and 120+ key performance indicators.

Houston Methodist's mission is to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a spiritual environment of caring in association with internationally recognized teaching and research. The organization's core values are embodied in the ICARE framework: Integrity (honest and ethical in all we say and do), Compassion (embracing the whole person and responding to emotional, ethical and spiritual concerns as well as physical needs), Accountability, Respect, and Excellence. As a Christian organization, Houston Methodist believes God can heal through the lives, actions and words of persons, and strives to treat everyone as a person of sacred worth and value.