Arlington doctor appointed to Texas Medical Board
Gov. Rick Perry appointed Arlington Memorial HospitalÂ’s Dr. Scott Holliday to the Texas Medical Board for a term that will end on April 13, 2013.
Holliday, an anesthesiologist at Pinnacle Partners in Medicine and chairman of AMHÂ’s department of anesthesiology, lives in University Park. He will be replacing Dr. Roberta Kalafut of Abilene on the Texas Medical Board, which establishes and maintains standards of excellence to regulate medicine and quality health care in the state. Holliday is a member of the Texas Medical Association, the American Society of Anesthesiologists, and the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association and serves as the Texas Society of Anesthesiolo-gists District 2 State Delegate.
Defibrillators donated to FWISD
Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital donated 10 automated external defibrillators to schools in the Fort Worth Independent School District in December as part of the “Gift from the Heart” community benefit program.
More than 250,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest, and about 7,000 of those deaths are children and teenagers. An AED is small, portable, and includes clear instructions for person to use the device to assess the heart beat of someone who is having a cardiac emergency. An AED also can deliver a shock to restore a normal heartbeat.
Team building time to help charities
Hospital directors at Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital assembled five bicycles as a team-building activity in December and then donated the bicycles to teenage girls at the Juliette Fowler Homes in Dallas.
The Dallas residential treatment facility accepted the bicycles to use as Christmas gifts. Brett McClung, president of Harris Southwest, said he was pleased the directors could brighten the holiday for the girls.
“We used our team building time to build meaningful and healthy gifts,” he said.
Hospital receives worldwide designation
On Jan. 1, Arlington Memorial Hospital officially became the first Texas hospital and one of only two worldwide to be named a Cycle III Chest Pain Center by the Society of Chest Pain Centers.
This designation, which is the highest accreditation for chest pain centers, means the hospital has demonstrated continual improvement in all areas of chest pain treatment and works with emergency medical providers to get treatment to patients in the field, such as giving aspirin to a patient before he or she reaches the hospital.
WomenÂ’s health physical therapy
program started
Harris Methodist Southwest Hospital started a new womenÂ’s health physical therapy program to help patients with urinary incontinence, or loss of bladder control, regain control and also help women with common relieve common post-mastectomy problems, like shoulder tightness from scar tissue and swelling. Women who have osteoporosis can also use the program to improve mobility and strength.
The program will be lead by Linda Yates, a physical therapist with 12 years of experience, including eight years of specialty practice in urinary incontinence and womenÂ’s health. For more information about the womenÂ’s health physical therapy program, call 817-433-1600.
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