Medical City North Hills has selected Teddy Jones as its next chief financial officer for the hospital. Jones will begin the position on August 14th, assuming responsibility of all financial departments including patient access, health information management, case management, revenue integrity, and supply chains. Jones has a background in finance and health from his experience and most recent role as the assistant chief financial officer to St. David’s South Austin Medical Center. With St. David’s, Jones facilitated the budgeting and capital requests for a $19 million women’s service renovation.
Sean Morrison, the director of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern, has been nominated by his peers to the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) as an associate member. Dr. Morrison will join the prestigious EMBO community of more than 2,000 leading experts and 91 Nobel laureates, meriting the position for his work in cellular mechanisms to study cancer. His laboratory has discovered the key mechanisms that regulate stem cell self-renewal in regenerating tissues after injury. Dr. Morrison is the founding director and professor of the Children’s Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern as well as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator.
North Texas Area Community Health Centers will host the second annual “Breaking Down Barriers: Strategies for Overcoming Systemic Healthcare Inequities in Integration Efforts” conference this October at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. The conference strives to get DFW healthcare systems on the same page to discuss at length the social determinants of health and health equity, challenges and solutions to at-scale problems, and the interface between healthcare and behavioral health integration. Keynote speakers include Dr. Miriam E. Delphin-Rittmon of Health & Human Services as well as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Dr. Octavio N. Martinez of the Hogg Foundation, Dr. Virna Little of Zero Overdose, and Dr. Dolly P. White of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. The conference will take place on October 3-5 at UNT’s Health Science Center campus, attendance is free but registration is required as space is limited.
Medical City Frisco has unveiled its newest $6 million cardiac catheterization lab. The additional lab will increase the hospital’s capacity for complex heart patients and has introduced improved technology to reduce radiation in imaging. The lab boasts a twenty-four-hour turnaround for patients suffering from pulmonary embolisms and deep vein thrombosis. The new space comes as part of Medical City Healthcare’s capital investment initiative to spend $1.5 billion over five years on facility enhancements, making Medical City locations the destinations of choice for patient care.
