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North Texas
“Mighty Mack” reunites with her surgeon, brings awareness to congenital heart defects
Heart defects are the nation’s leading birth defect, affecting nearly 40,000 babies born each year. Thanks to advances in healthcare and the ingenuity of talented physicians, children born with congenital heart defects (CHDs) can go on to live full and healthy lives. Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week is observed annually from February 7-14, and this week…
Confronting the transplant crisis: HCA Healthcare leads nation in live donor kidney transplants
While COVID-19 has posed unique challenges for organ procurement and transplantation, HCA Healthcare’s transplant centers have spent the past few months using their collaborative culture to improve more lives in more ways. This dedication is not new. Over the years, the immense experience of our transplant teams has led to survival and a better quality…
HCA Healthcare heals tiny hearts through hope, cutting-edge treatment
Congenital Heart Defects Awareness Week is observed annually from February 7-14. Heart defects are the nation’s leading birth defect, affecting nearly 40,000 babies born each year. Thanks to advances in healthcare and the ingenuity of talented physicians, children born with congenital heart defects (CHDs) can go on to live full and healthy lives. This week…
Improving the Patient Experience
A nurse manager reveals the keys to his team’s success. Jane: I got to visit you this summer and be on your unit. I was so impressed with you and the way you’ve instilled a patient-centered culture throughout your staff. How did you do that? Abel: I believe that, at some point, we’ll all be…
‘The heartbeat of the hospital’: meet viral HCA Healthcare nurse Caty Nixon
Nurses, like HCA Healthcare labor and delivery nurse Caty Nixon, are our differentiator. They make the greatest single contribution to our patients’ experiences. “Nurses are called to care,” says Jane Englebright, senior vice president and chief nurse executive for HCA Healthcare. “Helping others is part of our very nature, and we take pride in the…
Ready to serve: HCA Healthcare volunteers deliver smiles and comfort
Doris Wellner loves bringing smiles to people’s faces and offering them an encouraging word or comforting gesture. As a volunteer at affiliate Orange Park Medical Center in Orange Park, Florida, she gets to do just that. Wellner began volunteering at the hospital more than a decade ago. At the time, she was a new resident…