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Glutethimide is a hypnotic sedative that was introduced by Ciba [3] in 1954 as a safe alternative to barbiturates to treat insomnia. Before long, however, it had become clear that glutethimide was just as likely to cause addiction and caused similar withdrawal symptoms.
William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital is a hospital in the Southwestern Medical District in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is one of the main teaching hospitals of the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UT Southwestern or UTSW) is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas.With approximately 23,000 employees, [3] more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and the State of Texas.
The hospital is on a 118-acre (48 ha) campus on Old Spanish Trail and Almeda, just on the edge of the Texas Medical Center. It is accredited by the Joint Commission , and has 343 hospital beds, a 40-bed Spinal Cord Injury Center, and a 120-bed transitional care unit for long-term care.
Dallas Methodist Hospital began caring for patients on December 24, 1927, and officially opened as a 100-bed institution on January 27, 1928. A three-story student nurse's residence was built near the hospital in 1951, and the Martin and Charlotte Weiss Educational Building, which provided classroom space for nursing education and a large auditorium for community programming, opened in 1966.
In 2009 the Greater Dallas Planning Council awarded the Dream Study Award to the district due to the district's master plan for its hospital. [5] In 2009 Parkland Health & Hospital system began analyzing electronic medical records in order to use predictive modeling to help identify patients at high risk of hospital readmission .
In 2008, the hospital implemented a program in which critical care physician specialists are available to patients in the medical and surgical intensive care units 24 hours a day, eliminating ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line infections and pressure ulcers. [4]
Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Level 1 trauma center affiliated with McGovern Medical School (formerly UTHealth Medical School) Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital; Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Houston, affiliated with BCM; Rebecca Sealy Hospital, part of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. [1] [2]