T. Boone Pickens liked to make good on his word. This time, he’ll be doing so posthumously – thanks to the recent sale of his 65,000-acre Texas Panhandle ranch.
The endowment by the T. Boone Pickens Foundation will provide funding for residencies, fellowships and other educational opportunities for graduate medical students at the academic medical center – part of Baylor Scott & White Health, the state’s largest nonprofit health system.
“It’s so like Boone Pickens to leave a gift that will change the future,” said Bagwell, who is also chairman of Bank of Texas. “If you just think about the layers of education that doctors and specialists have to have, the price tag gets really high. This will help us recruit people for our fellowship and residency programs and provide support for that.
Late in his life, after a series of health challenges of his own, Pickens was under the care of a suite of Baylor health care professionals.
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