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The Business of
Health Care Report
We chose this topic in celebration of National Hospital Week in May, since 40% of the health care industry in our nine-county metropolitan area work in hospitals. Depending on how "health care" is defined, it ranks from first to
third in making the most economic impact on the area. It's one of the three H's: health care, hospitality and high
tech. More than 200,000 are employed in this industry locally. Among the attractiveness of the health care landscape
in North Texas is its diversification. It's very broad across distribution, technology, research and development,
education and all delivery segments of the industry-such as physicians' offices, radiology clinics and hospitals. Health care is a $60 billion dollar business here, with the fastest
growing segment for those who administer direct patient care. Forty percent of the health care industry in the nine
counties are employed in 79 hospitals of all types with a total of more than 16,000 beds. We have general acute care
hospitals like Presbyterian Hospital of Dallas and Arlington Memorial. There are specialty hospitals for children's care,
psychiatric care and rehabilitation. There are county hospitals like Parkland and John Peter Smith.
Government hospitals like the Veterans' Administration. And medical schools like the University of Texas Southwestern
Medical Center and the University of North Texas Health Science Center in Fort Worth. Biotechnology is believed to be the economic boom for the area's
future, tying closely to high tech growth. Texas Health Resources salutes the 200,000 employees working in
health care: caring for the patient, searching for tomorrow's cures to disease and strengthening our economy locally
for an overall improved quality of life. For Texas Health Resources
and its family of hospitals - Harris Methodist Hospitals, Presbyterian
Healthcare System and Arlington Memorial Hospital - I'm CEO Doug
Hawthorne with "The Business of Health Care Report" on NewsRadio
1080 KRLD.
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2002 Texas Health Resources |
I'm Doug Hawthorne, President and CEO of Texas Health Resources, with
"The Business of Health Care Report" on 