We hope you can join us for the DFW Hospital Council Foundation Workforce Center’s North Texas Nurse Preceptor Academy, June 16 at Texas Woman’s University in Dallas. The program is from 8:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. The Nurse Preceptor Academy is for healthcare professionals interested in learning about precepting, with sessions designed to help the […]
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Foundation’s annual Summer Institute set for August 4
With the theme “Nursing Care of Vulnerable Populations in Texas,” the DFW Hospital Council Foundation Workforce Center’s annual Summer Institute is set for August 4 at the Tarrant County College Trinity River Campus. This year’s event will be highlighted by speaker Margie Dorman-O’Donnell, director of case management at Cook Children’s and past president of the […]
Texas Quality Initiative annual meeting set for June 30
The Texas Quality Initiative’s (TQI) 5th Annual Meeting is set for June 30 but with a twist – an identical event will take place at two different locations this year. A Dallas breakfast meeting is set for The Heart Hospital Baylor Plano in the first floor auditorium. Breakfast will be served at 7:30 a.m. followed […]
Fresh produce sold from carts approved in Fort Worth
A long-awaited ordinance amendment allowing the sale of fresh produce from pushcarts was approved by Fort Worth City Council during its May 24 meeting. The item came up faster than expected on the agenda and was quickly approved. The approval is expected to increase fresh produce availability for communities within what is termed “food deserts,” […]
DFWHC educational session “Saving Your Hospital Money” set for June 21
You’re invited to the DFW Hospital Council’s educational session “Saving Your Hospital Money” on June 21 at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The breakfast event is from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. This complimentary event will have top level executives discussing ways for your hospital to save money, from fraud prevention to energy consulting, […]
Preventing Cancer Together
Working in collaboration with the UT Southwestern Moncrief Cancer Institute (MCI), the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation is attempting to reduce colorectal cancer and mortality in North Texas. The MCI received an award from the Cancer Prevention Research Institute of Texas (CPRIT) to implement an aggressive screening program. The Colorectal Screening and Patient Navigation […]
Foundation data combined with asthma-related Twitter study
The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation’s hospital data was combined with an analysis of real-time Twitter data to project population-level asthma ED visits and hospital admissions, according to a study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting last week in Baltimore. Researchers used Twitter location data to isolate tweets from the Dallas-Fort Worth area, and […]
Inaugural Dr. Anderson Award presented to Healthy Tarrant County
The Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration (HTCC) was awarded the inaugural Dr. Ron J. Anderson Thinking Progressively for Health Award from the Texas Public Health Association (TPHA) in April. The award recognizes the work HTCC and its Plan4Health partners have done throughout the year to increase access to healthy foods for residents in southeast Fort Worth. […]
Study reveals North Texas sexual assault statistics
In the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation study “Disparities Associated with Sexual Assaults and Abuses Identified by Hospitals in North Texas and Dallas County in 2010-2012” released this week, North Texas statistics involving sexual assault and abuse have been revealed for one of the first times in the region. The goal of the study was […]
Photographs from April 27 luncheon now available
If you are interested in obtaining photographs from the DFW Hospital Council Foundation’s 20th Annual Employee of the Year Luncheon on April 27, you’re in luck! They are now available through photographer Jerry McClure’s website. You can find them here.