
The Texas A&M system announces board of regents member Bill Mahomes has returned to his Dallas area home after spending 11 days in the hospital following a medical emergency during a board meeting in College Station.
Mahomes, who was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism after feeling light headed on November 12th, received initial treatment at a College Station hospital. Then he was flown by a helicopter ambulance to a Dallas hospital to be closer to home.
Since returning home Sunday evening (November 23rd), Mahomes has responded to more than 100 well wishers.
News release from the Texas A&M system:
Regent Bill Mahomes is counting his blessings this Thanksgiving week after being released from a Dallas hospital Sunday.
Mahomes was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism Nov. 12 after feeling light-headed during a meeting of the Board of Regents on Texas A&M University’s main campus.
He was taken by ambulance to Baylor Scott & White Medical Center in College Station, where he was treated initially. After two days he was transported by helicopter ambulance to a hospital closer to home, staying at UT Southwestern Medical Center for nine more days of treatment, testing, monitoring, and recovery.
“I’m so grateful to the doctors, nurses, EMT and other medical professionals at both facilities,” Mahomes said. “They took great care of me.”
A pulmonary embolism is a sudden blockage in a lung’s artery, something usually caused by one or more blood clots traveling from elsewhere in the body. While initial treatments were successful, doctors were concerned about additional clotting and other complications.
Mahomes spent Sunday evening and Monday at his Dallas home resting and responding to more than a hundred well-wishers who had called, texted, or emailed. “That was totally unanticipated and so appreciated,” he said. “It lifted me to hear from so many friends.”
Original story, November 13 2025:
Thursday’s (November 13) business meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents began with chairman Bob Albritton of Ft. Worth asking for prayers for regent Bill Mahomes of Dallas.
Albritton said Mahomes was in surgery after suffering a pulmonary embolism while the board was meeting in executive session on Wednesday (November 12).
Albritton told system executives and others attending the open meeting in College Station that “I know you all join me in those thoughts and prayers as this board certainly has those thoughts and prayers. We are very optimistic about the success of the surgery. Very candidly, we’re glad the event happened yesterday because otherwise it would not have been a good result. So it did work out the way it needed to but he is in surgery I believe as we speak and so just keep him in your prayers and appreciate that very very much.”
Click below to hear Bob Albritton’s comments from the November 13, 2025 meeting of the Texas A&M system board of regents.
Seven hours later, towards the end of the meeting Thursday afternoon, regent Sam Torn of Houston announced receiving a text that the surgery was successful and Mahomes was resting comfortably.
Click below to hear Sam Torn’s comments:
Mahomes, who was initially appointed in 2015, is serving his second six year term on the board.
