Parkland Hospital New Employee Orientation Video
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today we know Parkland as a modern, bustling health system. But long before Parkland Hospital and our network of health centers became what they are today, it all started with the support of our community. In April 18 93 Dallas citizens voted to approve $40,000 in bonds to build a hospital at the intersection of Maple and Oak Juan Avenues. Taking its name from the wooded Parkland, it said on Parkland opened on May 19th 18 94 in a group of wood frame buildings. Over the next several decades, park ones wooden buildings would be replaced with brick structures. You may recognize these buildings as the campus has been refurbished into the headquarters for Crow Holdings. In fact, the main building still bears Park in his name. A major milestone occurred in 1943 when Park one establishing affiliation with the new Southwestern Medical School. This relationship continues to this day with Park when serving as the primary teaching hospital for the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. In 1949 city and county officials forged a $7.5 million agreement to build a replacement hospital is a war memorial hospital and moved from its home at the corner of Maple in Oakland to Harry Hines Boulevard, and on September 25th 1954. The first patients were transferred from the old Parkland to the New Park Memorial Hospital. In its first year, the new Park one admitted 14,719 patients, delivered more than 4000 babies and saw 57,256 emergency patients. A lot of history and groundbreaking care took place in this facility. But perhaps Parkman's most famous moment came on November 22nd 1963 when President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was taken into trauma Room one at Parkland after being shot in Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas. Many people don't know that in addition to treating the president Park, one would also care for his assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, when he was shot just two days later, an anecdote that truly illustrates Park One's dedication to caring for all those who are in need. In a letter to the hospital, Texas Governor John Connally wrote, Words cannot adequately express my personal appreciation for the care, treatment and supreme thoughtfulness my family and I have received from all of you. These have been trying days for everyone connected to this great hospital, but you have risen to the occasion with the dedication to duty which merits the highest confidence in praise. Park one has proved again that is one of the finest institutions of its kind in the world. To this day. If United States president visits North Texas Park, one is the designated hospital if the need arises. The largest expansion of Parkland Memorial Hospital began in 1981 with the construction of the 10 floor, 204 bed north tower, a seven floor outpatient clinic and a five storey support building costing $80 million. The project increased the total number of beds from 750 to 940 the number of bassinets from 159 to 187 and the number of outpatient clinic rooms from 132 to 215. Another major moment in park history came in 1987. With the establishment of the community oriented primary care program, this network of community based clinics would become a national model for how to provide primary care toe underserved populations now notice population health. It includes more than a dozen primary care and women's health centers as well. A specialty clinics, homeless outreach or homes, vans, health care at the Dallas County Jail, school based youth and family centres, the Comprehensive Breast Center and much more. The main campus would not see another building until 2007 when Parkman opened the Simmons Ambulatory Surgery Center at the corner of Harry Hines and Medical District Drive. This outpatient surgery center helped relieve the backlog of surgeries and Parklands. Operating rooms, which are often taken up with life saving, trauma and burn surgeries. Fast forward to 2008 and Park one has outlasted its more than 50 year old facility. Dallas County voters overwhelmingly approved more than $700 million in bonds to build a new Parkland hospital on the other side of Harry Hines Boulevard. The new hospital has 870 beds, encompasses more than a 1,000,000 square feet and cost more than $1.3 billion to construct. It opened on August 20th 2015 and all apartment in patients removed across the mic, a Meyer Skybridge during a highly coordinated to day move campus would expand again less than two years later with the addition of the Ron J. Anderson M D Clinic Building, which houses many of Park wins outpatient specialty clinics. Today, Parkland is one of the premier public health systems in the country, earning awards and accolades for the quality, care and innovation that happens here every day. But despite the astronomical advances in technology and medicine, our primary purpose remains the same as it was in 18 94 to care for the members of our community who need it most.