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Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.
Hospitals in Texas 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 .
It has 1,200 licensed beds and is one of the major centers for patient care, medical training and research in North Texas. In 2013, Scott & White merged with Baylor Health Care System to form Baylor Scott & White Health. [1] The medical center is affiliated with the Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine. [2]
Parkland's high volume of patients led to the decision by the Dallas County Commissioners Court to propose replacing the overcrowded, 50+-year-old building with a new 1,700,000-square-foot (160,000 m 2), 17-story, 862-bed facility, along with a new 380,000-square-foot (35,000 m 2) outpatient center, a 275,000-square-foot (25,500 m 2) office ...
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.
Children's Medical Center Dallas is the flagship facility of Children's Health, [1] a nationally ranked pediatric acute care teaching hospital located in Southwestern Medical District, Dallas, Texas, USA. The hospital has 496 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
There were three critical elements of developing a profession on the table in these early years: association, credentialing and education. The Society for Healthcare Consumer Advocacy was founded as an association of mainly hospital-based patient advocates, without the autonomy characteristic of a profession: it was and is a member association of the American Hospital Association.