When I first joined Texas Health Harris Methodist Hurst-Euless-Bedford as President in 2007, I was immediately impressed with how much the hospital offers its local communities. It didn’t take long for me to notice that the hospital’s combined strengths could provided us with a unique opportunity — an opportunity to offer trauma services.
No one wants to imagine that they’ll have an accident that is life-threatening, nor do they worry which hospital would care for them if they do. As health care providers, it’s our job to think of all the possibilities.
Texas Health HEB has always had an emergency room to handle accidents and other health emergencies. In the recent years we have worked diligently to increase our ability to treat the number of emergencies we see on a daily basis. We haven’t just been talking about it; we have worked at it by investing numerous work hours and even capital investments to put systems and equipment in place.
It’s been paying off…
