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St. Luke Episcopal Hospital is the only hospital in the world that uses the Artis Zeego robotic device. The robotic technology is used to help diagnose and treat patients suffering from neurovascular illnesses such as strokes and brain aneurysms. The robotic device was developed following partnership with Siemens AG.

Dallas-Fort Worth area hospitals have finally reversed the trend in their nurse staffing shortage. Recruiters have managed to get salaries increased and offer sign-on bonuses and internships. In particular, critical care and emergency nurses have been in demand.

Methodist Health Care System's Sugar Land facility is undergoing a $7 million expansion in an effort to keep pace with the growing community southwest of Houston. The expansion includes the [...]

Memorial Hermann Healthcare System is rolling out a new messaging service to link patients directly to physician offices. The new service, called Memorial Hermann's MyCareLink, will allow patients to contact [...]

Baylor Medical Center-Ellis County will host an open house for its new outpatient services center from 2 to 4 p.m. Sept. 16. The outpatient center adjoins the existing hospital. Other [...]

ADVERTISING & MARKETING The La Chapelle Agency added Heather Renders as senior art director for its creative team. Vidaud and Associates Inc. named Jacqueline Taylor public municipal marketing manager. ARCHITECTURE [...]

Emelda Valcarcel has been appointed vice president of patient care services and chief nursing officer of St. Paul Medical Center. She has served as acting executive vice president of the [...]

Texas Children's Hospital is offering its facilities and services to other hospitals in the Texas Medical Center that suffered damage due to flooding from Tropical Storm Allison. TCH will make [...]

SOUTHLAKE -- Harris Methodist HEB Hospital in Bedford plans to begin construction late this year or early 2002 on an imaging center, ambulatory surgery center and medical offices in Southlake, [...]

GARLAND -- After years of refuting rumors of a sale, Garland Community Hospital officials have confirmed they plan to sell the 113-bed facility to Plano-based Leland Medical Centers. Terms of [...]

Christus' St. Joseph Hospital in Houston suffers extensive flood damage LAS COLINAS -- The aftermath of Tropical Storm Allison's havoc in Houston has reached the borders of the Dallas-Fort Worth [...]

The population boom spurs Metroplex hospitals to serve patients with a $1B explosion of new building LEWISVILLE -- As CEO of the Medical Center of Lewisville, Ray Dunning Jr. gauges [...]

In 1941, the Texas legislature approved the establishment of a state cancer hospital and designated Houston as the site of the proposed facility. Today, 60 years later, the University of [...]

University Health System (UHS) is a safety net for many of Bexar County's poorest residents. But its leaders are working overtime 70 miles north to impress upon Texas legislators how [...]

LARGEST SAN ANTONIO MEDICAL HOSPITALS Ranked by number of licensed/authorized beds Number of Name licensed/ Address authorized Rank Telephone, Fax (Year established locally) beds [**] 1. South Texas Veterans Health [...]

LARGEST REHABILITATION CENTERS Ranked by number of licensed therapists Austin-area: Licensed Name therapists/ 2000 Address Employees/ Rank rank Phone/Fax Locations 1. 1. St. David's 105 Rehabilitation Center 272 1005 E. [...]

The deficit sword is slicing its way through health systems across America and has left one of San Antonio's oldest and largest systems seeking immediate relief from huge wounds. Now [...]

GRAPEVINE -- Baylor Medical Center at Grapevine is working on preliminary plans for a $40 million expansion and renovation that would double its number of beds with a new, five-story [...]

ADVERTISING Jennifer Garner was hired as assistant account executive for BizCom Associates. DDB Worldwide hired the following in its Dallas office: Renee Beard, account supervisor; Michelle Chapman, multimedia designer; Karen [...]

After weathering financial woes that had threatened to halt all or some of its construction projects, Parkland Health & Hospital System has expanded its neonatal intensive care unit to include [...]

The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) has awarded three job-training grants to the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX). The grants are expected to create 642 jobs and upgrade the skills of [...]

The short marriage is all but over for Las Colinas-based Christus Health and long-suffering Charter Behavioral Health Systems because a new suitor appears to be just weeks away from purchasing [...]

Ambulatory surgery centers, which at one time were thought doomed not to make a profit, are suddenly in fashion in Houston. Two companies have begun moving forward with plans to [...]

GREATER METROPLEX -- Chief nursing officer Sheila Everly and her recruiters have cut the vacancy rate almost in half for critical-care registered nurses at Medical City Dallas Hospital. The rate [...]

$40 million project will bolster number of patient beds LEWISVILLE -- Land acquisition is almost complete and preliminary planning is under way for the Medical Center of Lewisville's $40 million-plus [...]

AmeriHealth of Texas Inc., with 3,000 local members, has been purchased by Houston-based AmCareco Inc., the parent company of AmCare Health Plans of Texas. Terms of the deal were not [...]

NORTH DALLAS -- Medical City Dallas Hospital's nationally ranked cardiovascular program has been renamed the Cardiovascular Institute at Medical City Dallas. 'We are reorganizing as the Cardiovascular Institute to recognize [...]

Hospitals face costly new rules after Y2K compliance Susan Stone and the rest of the compliance team at Texas Children's Hospital spent long hours preparing for the year 2000. And [...]

BUSIEST METROPLEX HOSPITALS RANKED BY 1999 ADMISSIONS 1999 admissions/ outpatient Rank/ visits/ last emergency year's Name Telephone room rank Address Fax visits 1. Parkland Health & Hospital System 214-590-8000 39,253/ [...]

Published March 31, 2000 Ranked by number of licensed/authorized beds Number of 1999 Name licensed/ Number of Rank rank Address authorized beds Telephone, Fax (Year beds(**) used established locally) 1. [...]

$46 million change in budget would largely affect administrative areas, not patient care MEDICAL CENTER -- Parkland Health & Hospital System is proposing more than $46 million in cuts and [...]

John Hornbeak describes himself as a hospital person. Unfortunately, being the president and chief executive officer of Methodist Healthcare System (MHS) usually leaves little time for him to visit the [...]

An osteoporosis clinic has just been opened as part of the Texas Back Institute Plano facility. The new clinic will offer osteoporosis education to include nutritional counseling, fall prevention, exercise [...]

Black Business Expo 2000 Black business owners in San Antonio will be showcasing their businesses and learning about various business opportunities at the 4th Annual Black Business Expo, a two-day [...]

The Children's Cancer Fund of Dallas has made a $2 million challenge gift to The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas toward the creation of a $6 million [...]

* Dr. Brian Baldwin has been appointed president of the medical staff of St. Paul Medical Center. He will serve a one-year term. Baldwin, the cardiology section chief at St. [...]

Cutting-edge surgery Southeast Baptist Hospital, a member of the Baptist Health System, was recently the site of a new surgical procedure. Known as intraluminal surgery -- meaning surgery inside a [...]

Medical Center at Lancaster broke ground Dec. 7 on the $5 million Lancaster Medical Pavilion adjacent to the hospital's main campus. Construction will begin in earnest in February and the [...]

ENNIS -- Longtime financially troubled Baylor Medical Center-Ellis County's Ennis' cam pus is closing its 45-bed hospital Jan. 31. The campus is shutting down, despite the efforts of Baylor and [...]

Shrinking applicant pool sends some hospital managers back to school MEDICAL CENTER -- With a dwindling applicant pool and increased competition for jobs throughout the Metroplex, Parkland Health & Hospital [...]

After a two-year search for a capital partner, MacGregor Medical Association in San Antonio has agreed in principle to form an alliance with Baptist Health System. The agreement, in the [...]

The first facility established under a joint venture between Methodist Healthcare System and the South Texas Radiology Group (STRG) is set to open in the South Texas Medical Center in [...]

Seton Family of Hospitals and St. David's HealthCare are competing for Travis County's new STAR Flight helicopter. The decision on who between two of the largest hospital systems in Texas will house the helicopter will be announced on October 19, 2010. STAR Flight is the county's emergency dispatch system.

Hospitals in North Texas are installing electronic medical records networks(EMRs) but will be challenged by the high costs associated with these systems. The health care reform bill mandates hospitals to digitize their records to achieve financial incentives if they install them before September 30, 2012. Those who fail to install EMRs will lose Medicare and Medicaid funding starting January 2015.

The new Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act states that physician-owned hospitals are restricted from adding beds, operating rooms, and procedure rooms. The contributions of these hospitals to the health care industry have been greatly debated in health care circles. Some believe that these hospitals are cherry-picking profitable patients.

El Segundo, California based Spectrum is planning to develop a 40,000-square-foot athletic club inside the South Texas Medical Center. The proximity of a captive audience which numbers roughly 2,800 Health Science Center students and 5,500 Health Center staff are the built-in advantages of choosing the location at the Medical Center.

Atlantic Health Group is coordinating plans for a hospital in the New Braunsfels Town Center at Creekside in San Antonio. The planned hospital is expected to cost more than $170 million. Other views and information on the planned hospital, as well as on its expected impact on New Braunsfels, are presented.

San Antonio, Texas-based University Health System is undertaking a $629 million expansion and renovation project of its South Texas Medical Center. The facility's bed capacity will increase from 498 to 721, and Bexar County Commissioners voted to support the project. Other plans for the project are detailed.

Acuity Healthcare LP's plans to develop two long-term acute-care hospitals to be located in San Antonio, Texas, have been altered by a three-year federal moratorium on the construction of such facilities. One of the changes in the plan involved the acquisition of an existing long-term acute-care facility. Acuity's new development plans are given.