Valentine’s Day surprise

Bell Manor students Manuel and Yulissa delivered handmade Valentine's Day cards to Texas Health HEB patients. Students at the school made the cards.

Patients in the hospital at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford got a Valentine’s Day surprise from local school children.

Sixth grade students at Bell Manor Elementary made about 150 cards for Texas Health HEB patients. The students delivered a few to patients a couple of days early because mock TAKS testing started at school today. Hospital employees are delivering the remainder, and well wishes from the students and the hospital employees, today.

Patients were excited to receive the cards and made comments like “This really brightened my day” and the card “is exactly what I needed today.”

And it wasn’t just the patients that gained something from the experience. “This has been so great,” said Manuel, one of the students. “Nothing can ruin this day for me.”

Texas Health HEB partners with Bell Manor through the Adopt-a-School program.

Through snow and ice, outpatient rehab patients and therapists continue on

Cathy Borne

North Texas welcomed February with rain, snow, sleet and ice, causing most area residents to stay home, especially since area schools closed. But in health care, workers are conditioned to show up regardless of the weather storming outside and those working at Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Hurst-Euless-Bedford today were no exception.

In spite of the conditions, 17 dedicated therapists and support staff made it in to the Texas Health HEB Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Center to provide outpatient physical, occupational and speech therapy services to patients. The patients are being treated for a variety of medical conditions and injuries such as low back pain, stroke, frozen shoulder and a displaced finger fracture. I am very proud of the therapy staff for their dedication to their patients and I asked some of them about their reasons for making it to work today. The short version of their answers though is that they knew other coworkers and the patients were counting on them.