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For the past 18 years, UMC Brackenridge, a public hospital run by Central Health, has partnered with Seton Healthcare, a private company.

Now a master plan would deepen that partnership and bring on board the tax payer and the University of Texas. Wednesday was the second of three public meetings on the proposal.

The plan calls for the construction of a $250 million teaching hospital funded by Seton. Last week, UTs Board of Regents agreed to put up $334 million for a medical school.

"We are looking for sustainability, we know we can't continue to provide services like we are providing them in the way that we are providing them," Central Health President and CEO Patricia Young Brown said.

Isabel Rios with the League of United Latin American Citizens fears the change is coming too quickly.

"We do not need a massive overhaul. Our hospital needs to be kept in public hands in the hands of the community because we are taxpaying citizens," she said.

If the medical school is built, it would be the first UT medical school in Austin, expected to open in 2016.

The teaching hospital is slated to open in 2017.

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Master plan beginning to form for Austin's medical school