Ear care treatment innovator EOSERA opened a new facility this month with an expanded office and manufacturing footprint. The company’s 30 employees are responsible for products available in over 28,000 retail stores. The 36,499 square foot space will feature additional equipment and machinery, reflecting the company’s three-year revenue growth of 311 percent and place on the Inc. 500 List of fastest growing companies.
Kari McCord has been named the chief nursing officer of Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Allen, an 88-bed acute care hospital in Collin County. McCord began her journey with Texas Health as a staff nurse at the system’s flagship Dallas hospital in 2005. After leaving the system, she returned to Texas Health Plano as director of women’s, infants’ and children’s services and was promoted to associate chief nursing officer of the hospital in 2021. While in the role, she was responsible for the perioperative, acute care, critical care, and women’s, infants’ and children’s service lines and led the hospital’s Patient Efficiency and Effectiveness Committee. Her new role will include responsibility for for the management of nursing practice, nursing education, professional development, nursing research and nursing administration.
The Texas Women’s Foundation is granting $420,000 from its Health Care Access Fund to help women and girls access healthcare in underserved communities in the region. The grant builds on nearly $490,000 in grants earlier this year to rural Texas communities. Seven community clinics received grants, including Collins Family Planning Clinic in Fort Worth, Genesis Prime Care in Marshall, Gulf Coast Health Center in Port Arthur, Health Services North Texas in Denton, and TAN (Triangle Area Network) Healthcare in Beaumont. The grants will aid the hiring of OB/GYN and other critical healthcare providers, access to birth control, prenatal care, family planning, visits for uninsured women, and hiring a women’s health coordinator and community health worker to conduct outreach and education.
ENT Specialty Partners, one of the nation’s largest ear, nose, and throat practices has opened its newest practice location in Southlake, serving both adult and pediatric patients. The clinic will be led by board-certified otolaryngologist Dr. Mary Ashmead. ENT Specialty Partners includes 31 ENT physicians, 10 advanced practice providers, and 21 audiologists/hearing specialists in 18 locations.
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