Hospitals host Faith Community Leadership Summit
The second annual Faith Community Leadership Summit, sponsored by the pastoral care department of Harris Methodist Hospitals, will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Feb. 26 at the Fort Worth Convention Center. Reservations are still being taken for the event, which is for faith leaders and leadership teams.
Speakers will address AlzheimerÂ’s disease and cultural diversity needs for patients and their families and issues facing aging churches and opportunities for older adult ministry.
The event is free but seating is limited and reservations are still being taken; call 817-703-8432.
Plaza hires Khalafi
Plaza Medical Center of Fort Worth recently announced that Dr. Reza Khalafi has been appointed the hospitalÂ’s medical director for cardiovascular services.
Khalafi, who was one of North Texas’s leading exponents of off-pump, “beating-heart,” coronary artery bypass surgery, took over responsibilities in the position on Jan. 1. Khalafi has performed more than 1,800 cases using this approach in his private practice, which does not require stopping the heart or using a heart-lung machine during open-heart surgery.
Khalafi is succeeding Dr. Karamat Choudhry, who retired late last year.
Center receives accreditation
The Mabee Rehabilitation Center at Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital recently received accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Services.
The three-year accreditation includes new certifications of the inpatient and outpatient stroke rehabilitation specialty services and re-accreditation for its comprehensive and general occupational rehab programs.
This is the fourth consecutive three-year accreditation the organization has given to the hospitalÂ’s Mabee Rehabilitation Center. The three-year recognition requires a peer review process of the center under consideration and an on-site review by surveyors.
Chaplain receives award
Rev. Jim Dorsey, chaplain at Arlington Memorial Hospital, was named the 2007 Minister of the Year by the Arlington Ministerial Association and Spiritual Aims Committee of the Kiwanis Club of Arlington.
The award is for a minister that served as a spiritual leader during the past year.
Dorsey has served as a chaplain at the hospital for 10 years, and before that he served 10 years as the chaplain coordinator at Baylor University Medical Center and another decade as a foreign missionary in Colombia for the Southern Baptist Convention.
Kelley elected to THC board
Terry Kelley, a local businessman, has been elected chair of the board of trustees of Texas Health Resources for the 2008-2010 term.
Texas Health Resources is the parent company of the Harris Methodist Hospitals, Arlington Memorial Hospital and Presbyterian Healthcare System. Kelley, who was previously the vice chair of the board and has been on the board since 1997, is succeeding Jimmy Payton, who still remains on the board.
Baylor center earns award
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine recently earned the Texas Ten Step designation for improving the health of newborns and infants by encouraging breastfeeding.
The designation is given by the Texas Department of State Health Services and the Texas Hospital Association, The program has a goal that 75 percent of mothers are breastfeeding their newborns before they go home, and the maternity staff at the hospital received extensive training to help mothers.
Health care professionals promote breastfeeding as the preferred method of feeding infants because it not only provides complete nutrition but also immunologic protection for humans. The programÂ’s 10 steps ensure that mothers are supported in
breastfeeding before, during and after delivery, both in the hospital and in the community.
During the 2007 fiscal year, Baylor Grapevine had more than 3,100 births, the second-highest number of births at the hospital.
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