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North Texas
HCA Healthcare’s Medical City executive raises awareness of life-threatening virus
“All of this because of a mosquito,” Ben Harris, a strategic planning executive at Medical City Healthcare, said after a six-week stay last year in Medical City Plano due to West Nile virus. Harris, who is still on the road to recovery, now uses his platform to raise awareness of neuro-invasive West Nile virus, a…
HCA Rocky Dog gifted to affiliate pediatric hospitals
A plush, cuddly toy puppy named “Rocky” is comforting pediatric patients at HCA Healthcare hospitals. As part of our organization’s 50th anniversary year, Rocky, the name of each pet Komondor belonging to co-founder Dr. Thomas Frist Jr., have been gifted to inpatient and emergency care HCA pediatric facilities in Tennessee, Colorado, Texas and Utah. In…
HCA nurse for fallen officer honored with award for extraordinary nurses
Kim Adams, RN, has been named Medical City Plano’s first-ever recipient of the DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses after tending to slain Richardson (Texas) Police Officer David Sherrard. The HCA Healthcare-affiliated trauma nurse, whose husband is also a police officer, stayed beyond her shift to care for Officer Sherrard and comfort and support the family…
First-grade teacher becomes a nurse at hospital that successfully treated cancer
Ashley Moore, a 31-year old former cancer patient at Medical City Plano and bone marrow transplant patient at Medical City Dallas has turned her own health experience into a commitment to care for others. After being diagnosed and treated for stage three non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at the HCA Healthcare North Texas affiliates, the first-grade teacher, wife…
Be a Lifesaver: Learn How to Stop the Bleed
This post originally appeared on the Medical City ER LifeSigns blog. An emergency trauma situation like a car accident or a shooting can lead to life-threatening blood loss in minutes. Did you know you may be able to save a life by learning to stop the bleed? Stop the Bleed was a national awareness campaign…
Stroke survivor says “I do” in Medical City Fort Worth Rehab Unit
Mindy Charles suffered two strokes during the same week at the end of last year. Today, the 40-year-old has taken the next step towards living her life fully and now, rather than later, by saying “I do” and to her fiancé, Jay Benke, in the rehabilitation gym at HCA Healthcare’s Medical City Fort Worth — just before…