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Texas Tech Health El Paso’s third annual Lighting Campus for Hope, presented by Hunt Companies, illuminated the campus with holiday magic on Friday, Dec. 5, 2025. Families, friends and cancer warriors from across our Borderplex, with an estimated 1,000 in attendance, celebrated hope and unity in the fight against cancer.

Texas Tech Health El Paso clinics deliver free breast cancer screenings to underserved community where 972 women received potentially life-saving early detection — and hope....When Cecilia stepped into her Zumba class three years ago during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, she discovered no-cost mammograms were offered at the same community center, home to the Texas Tech Health El Paso Medical Student Run Clinic (MSRC).

EL PASO, Texas — On Sept. 17, 2025, Texas Tech Health El Paso celebrated the groundbreaking of the Fox Cancer Center, a transformative facility that will deliver comprehensive, world-class cancer care to our Borderplex residents.

Together we've raised over $30 million but our capital campaign continues with a goal to raise another $25 million!

Texas Tech Health El Paso expands health care access with grant from the Underserved Communities Foundation.

Texas Tech Health El Paso’s community-centered strategies helped turn the tide against the COVID-19 pandemic.

New initiative will increase access to mental health support and resources for the region's homeless population. Using remote video technology and partnering with Bank of America and the Opportunity Center of El Paso, medical students and psychiatry residents will provide services to the community members starting in June.

The "Take a Bite Out of Cancer" initiative sees L&F Distributors and El Perro Tequila partnering for the benefit of TTUHSC El Paso and Texas Tech Physicians of El Paso for breast cancer awareness.

Diabetes and the Community Dentist program expands beyond the dental school thanks to a grant from the Paso del Norte Health Foundation. Some Borderplex dentists' offices will now screen for, and identify, at risk patients as part of an effort to improve early detection and treatment of diabetes in the community.

The Medical Student Run Clinic in far east El Paso demonstrates the enduring power of community-centric health care and education.

PBS News Hours shines a spotlight on the efforts of volunteers in the El Paso region to address the medical concerns of the migrant community.

In a no-frills clinic, TTUHSC El Paso faculty teach students while caring for migrants’ medical emergencies.

U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar Announces Federal Funding for TTUHSC El Paso Border Health Outreach Initiative

TTUHSC El Paso’s student body is 48% Hispanic and often first-generation college students.

One-of-a-Kind Course Immerses Students in Borderplex Culture before they begin studying medicine and dentistry.