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On Christmas morning 2008, a UC Davis Health specialist helped save the life of a boy in a Colusa hospital using telehealth technology from his own living room, 75 miles (121 km) away. [26] In October 2019, the UC Davis FamilyLink program expanded to include all 49 beds in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU).
The Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock has awarded more than 3,000 Doctor of Medicine degrees since its first graduating class in 1974. [7] [8] The school was commissioned to train physicians to help meet the health care needs of residents of West Texas, a population that now includes more than 2.5 ...
Loop 322 starts at its junction with the Winters Freeway (US 83 and US 84) and Treadaway Blvd about 1 mile north of Abilene Regional Medical Center and continues north towards Interstate 20. Loop 322 passes through one of the fastest growing areas of Abilene right before Abilene Regional Airport. After the airport, Loop 322 continues about 2.4 ...
The first settlers farmed in the Wylie area beginning in 1881, but Wylie as a community did not develop until 1902, when John H. Vance arrived from Austin, Texas. Vance purchased several acres of land southwest of Abilene, and built the first general store. Vance included a residence attached at the back for his family.
Callahan County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 13,708. [1] [2] Its county seat is Baird. [3] The county was founded in 1858 and later organized in 1877. [4] It is named for James Hughes Callahan, an American soldier in the Texas Revolution.
The Abilene metropolitan statistical area is a metropolitan statistical area in west-central Texas that covers three counties—Taylor, Jones, and Callahan. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 176,579.
In 1933, Abilene donated land for use by the Civilian Conservation Corps. [14] Dyess Air Force Base was established as Abilene AFB in 1942; it is named in honor of Texas native and Bataan Death March survivor Lieutenant Colonel William Dyess. [15] The Abilene Philharmonic Orchestra was created, with Jay Dietzer as the first conductor, in 1950. [5]
The Wylie Independent School District is a public school district based in the far southern portion (often called Wylie) [1] of Abilene, Texas, United States.In order to avoid confusion with the Wylie Independent School District in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex suburb of Wylie, the district is commonly referred to as Abilene Wylie.