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Save the Date
August 4, 2012
Black & White Gala
October 8, 2012
21st Annual Golf Tournament
December 8, 2012
Breakfast with St. NICUlas |
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Grateful Hearts |  |
Please consider making a donation to one of our hospitals, through the Grateful Hearts program, in honor of the caregiver(s) who made a difference for you or a loved one. |
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Texas Health Harris Methodist Foundation's monthly e-newsletter was established to keep our friends up to date and in touch with the latest on the Foundation and the Texas Health Harris Methodist hospitals, and Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, we support.
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We've Moved
As of June 11, the Texas Health Harris Methodist Foundation will no longer be located at 6100 Western Place in Fort Worth. Our new home office will be located on the third floor of the Texas Health Resources headquarters, located at 612 East Lamar Boulevard in Arlington. A majority of the Foundation's staff will be located at headquarters along with staff members from the Texas Health Presbyterian Foundation, providing increased collaboration among the Foundations' staffs while also allowing for more direct access to system leaders working on strategic priorities that the Foundations are supporting through fundraising initiatives. We will still maintain regional staffs in our existing Dallas office and Fort Worth office (now located in suite 450 of the Harris Center at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth) encompassing all necessary fundraising efforts. Having three locations allows us to fully cover our current scope of development projects as well as the future needs of Texas Health Resources. All staff will keep their existing phone numbers. Please feel free to call us with any questions or visit us at www.TexasHealth.org/Giving |
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Create a Legacy: Charitable Gift Planning
Each month, we feature on our Web site new articles and interactive features that cover topics such as estate planning and charitable giving. We hope it will be a useful resource for you. New this month:
Even 1 Percent Matters
"Do I really have enough money to donate to change lives?" If you are doubting your ability to make a difference, you'll want to read about these gift options that could change your mind.
Are you ready to Inherit Your Parent's Estate?
An inheritance can come with more than a lump sum of cash; newfound wealth also brings with it anxiety over what to do with the money and how to spend it. With help, you can feel good about your choices. Find out more here.
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Texas Health Resources Announces Leadership Advancements Supporting Clinical and Operational Integration Strategy
Texas Health Resources took a major step toward fulfilling its goal of bringing more physicians into leadership roles across the health system with the announcement of selections for several clinical and operational leader positions. The announcement names the physicians and operations leaders who will serve in a "dyad" leadership model for each of three geographic zones. The dyad leadership model has been adopted by other leading health care systems and has proven to be an effective structure for aligning operational and clinical sides of large, complex health organizations.
Oscar L. Amparan, FACHE, and Mark Lester, M.D., M.B.A., C.P.E., FACS, will lead the Southeast zone as operations and clinical leaders, respectively. Jeffrey L. Canose, M.D., M.H.A., FACHE, and Harold Berenzweig, M.D., will serve as operations and clinical leaders of the Southwest zone, with Berenzweig in the clinical leader role. Stephen C. Hanson, FACHE, M.P.H., and Elizabeth "Liz" Ransom, M.D., FACS, will serve as operations and clinical leaders of the North zone, with Ransom in the clinical leader role.
The zone leaders will report to senior executive vice president and chief operations officer Barclay E. Berdan, and a senior executive vice president and chief clinical officer to be named. A national search is underway for the chief clinical officer. Berdan and the chief clinical officer will serve in a dyad model reporting to CEO Doug Hawthorne.
Texas Health also announced that Krystal Mims, currently the president of Texas Health Partners, will become senior vice president of care continuum and collaborations for Texas Health. She will continue her responsibility for oversight of Texas Health Partners, the joint venture development and management arm of Texas Health, and will also manage outside affiliations with care continuum partners.
Lillie Biggins, B.S.N., M.S.N., has been promoted to president of Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth, replacing Oscar Amparan as he moves into a zone operations leader position. Biggins previously served as senior vice president of operations for the hospital. Mike Evans, B.S.N., M.S.N., has been promoted to hospital president of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano from his former role as senior vice president and chief operating officer. He will replace Jeffrey Canose as he moves into a zone operations leader position.
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Texas Health Fort Worth Announces Plans for New $57.7 Million Emergency Care Center
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth will begin construction on a new $57.7 million Emergency Care Center that will better meet the growing needs of patients in the Fort Worth area. A groundbreaking ceremony took place May 31 at the construction site, on the corner of West Terrell Street and Fifth Avenue. The three-story, 75,000-square-foot emergency care center, planned for completion in fall 2013, will be one block south of the hospital's current emergency department and will connect to the main hospital through a sky bridge. The new facility will nearly triple the square footage of the existing department and increase patient beds to 90 from the current 63. Last year, the hospital's emergency department cared for 97,309 patients and is on track to care for 100,000 patients in 2012. Having accreditation as a Level II Trauma Center, Primary Stroke Center, Cycle III Chest Pain Center, Heart Failure Center, and holding a Gold Seal of Approval from the Joint Commission in the treatment of hip fractures makes the hospital an exceptional destination for emergency care. MedStar Emergency Medical Services transports more patients to Texas Health Fort Worth than to any other facility in its service area. To learn more about this exciting project, check out the Foundation's summer magazine, In Touch, in mailboxes in July. |
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Texas Health Resources Recognized by CIO Magazine for Innovative Electronic Health Record Technology
Texas Health Resources has been recognized by IDG's CIO magazine as a 2012 CIO 100 Awards recipient for its initiative to implement barcode medication verification technology in its system-wide electronic health record (EHR). The award program recognizes 100 organizations around the world and across all industry sectors that exemplify the highest level of operational and strategic excellence in information technology. Texas Health is one of only three health systems or hospitals recognized. Barcode medication verification allows nurses and other clinicians to use bar code scanning technology, similar to a supermarket checkout, prior to administering medications to confirm patient identity and medication information against patient data in the EHR. Fewer than 10 percent of hospitals in the U.S. have implemented barcode medication verification, according to Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) Analytics. Texas Health began planning to implement the technology in March 2010 and achieved its first hospital implementation in November of that year. Implementation across all 13 Texas Health wholly owned hospitals was completed in December 2011. |
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Texas Health Arlington Memorial Earns Award From State Quality Organization
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital has earned a Silver Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award in recognition of its gains in key clinical areas designated as national health care priorities. This award, presented by TMF Health Quality Institute (TMF), recognizes hospitals that undertake efforts to advance the quality of care in their facilities. In addition to Texas Health Arlington Memorial, seven other Texas Health hospitals in Azle, Cleburne, Hurst-Euless-Bedford, Fort Worth, Plano, Dallas and Denton were recognized. Also recognized were three Texas Health joint venture hospitals - Huguley Memorial Medical Center, Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital-WNJ Sherman and Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Rockwall.
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Texas Health Cleburne Receives Pathway Award
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Cleburne has been nationally recognized as the winner of the inaugural 2012 Pathway Award. Given by the American Nurses Credentialing Center and Cerner Corporation, the hospital accepted the $10,000 award during the recent Pathway to Excellence Conference in Washington, D.C. The winning project had to meet "Pathway to Excellence" practice standards and demonstrate innovation and technology by creating a positive nurse practice environment. Texas Health Cleburne was awarded for its project titled "Community Case Management: A Transitional Care Model Using Advanced Practice Nurses to Reduce Hospital Readmissions and Preventable Emergency Department Visits." By incorporating Android tablets, the Internet and documented monitoring by an advanced practice nurse, the goal of the project is to improve the health of patients with chronic diseases by decreasing readmissions and preventable admissions to the emergency department. The project details proactive procedures, including follow-up analyses by advanced practice registered nurses along with in-home assessments by first responders. Using a portion of the monetary award, Texas Health Cleburne will purchase a program developed by bioengineers at the University of Texas at Dallas that allows interactive, remote monitoring of patients with chronic diseases. The technology even provides the clinician with the ability to talk to the patient and conduct a virtual assessment.
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Healthy Bites
By: Amber Massey, RD, LD
Executive Health Program
Registered Dietitian
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Fort Worth 
Portion Savvy- Think Smaller
We're eating more calories than ever, and a leading culprit is how often we eat prepared foods away from home. Whether they come from a restaurant, takeout or vending machine, the portions we're being served are becoming larger and larger. Many of us have lost touch with what proper portions look like. What is "one serving?" Measuring with your eyes is a great place to start. Use this easy to read table to assist with your everyday portion distortion:
1 teaspoon: About the size of your fingertip (top to middle joint)
1 tablespoon: About the size of your thumb tip (tip to middle joint)
½ cup: A fruit or vegetable that fits into the palm of your hand (tennis ball size)
¼ cup: A golf ball
1 ounce nuts: Fits into the cupped palm of a child's hand
1 cup cereal: About the size of a woman's fist or a baseball
1 med. bagel: A hockey puck
1 ounce cheese: About the size of 2 dominoes or 4 dice
3 ounces meat: About the size of a deck of cards or cassette audiotape
1 med. potato: About the size of a computer mouse
For more information or to set up a nutrition appointment, please call the Executive Health Program at 817.250.3933.
If you have questions for the dietitian, visit
www.TexasHealth.org/AskAmber
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