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Jacksonville, Texas (June 27, 2024) — UT Health Jacksonville has collaborated with the Josie King Foundation to provide care journals to patients to further enhance patient safety. UT Health Jacksonville is also the first hospital to include a QR Code on the journal for patients and loved ones to easily access their providers, specialties and other information right on their cell phone. 

Hospital leadership learned about the care journals from Sorrel King, who spoke at a UT Health East Texas leadership conference last year, highlighting the importance of creating a...

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Henderson, Texas (June 26, 2024) – UT Health Henderson is now offering an acute withdrawal management program, which is an inpatient, hospital-based three- to five-day medical detox available to adults requiring medical management of withdrawal symptoms from alcohol and/or opioids. 

“Across the nation, addiction/substance use disorder impacts millions of people and their families. The good news is there is hope — addiction can be successfully treated,” said UT Health Henderson CEO Mark Leitner. “UT Health Henderson is dedicated to helping people across East Texas...

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Tyler, Texas (June 24, 2024) — UT Health East Texas today announced the launch of virtual nursing across its hospital network. Partnered with care.ai, the UT Health East Texas virtual nursing program is the first in the region. 

Virtual nursing empowers care teams to work more efficiently and drive improved clinical outcomes. Enabled by video communication with credentialed registered nurses (virtual nurses) and in-room smart sensors, the platform allows virtual nurses, who are employed by UT Health East Texas, to manage a wide variety of patient care tasks that do...

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TYLER, Texas (May 14, 2024) – UT Health East Texas today announced that UT Health Quitman and HealthFirst have been selected by Modern Healthcare as two of the 2024 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The complete list of this year’s winners, in alphabetical order, is available at ModernHealthcare.com/bestplaceslist. Modern Healthcare will publish a special supplement featuring a ranked list of all the winners along with the October 14, 2024, issue of MH magazine.

“With all the economic uncertainty, staffing challenges, and folks wanting more flexible work setups,...

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Henderson, Texas (May 1, 2024) — UT Health Henderson earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog. Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 measures of errors, accidents, injuries and infections as well as the systems hospitals have in place to prevent them.  

“We are proud to have earned a fourth consecutive ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade and our fifth out of the last six grading periods,” said Mark Leitner, CEO of UT Health Henderson. “This achievement is...

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Pittsburg, Texas (February 26, 2024) —  UT Health East Texas installed a new CT scanner at UT Health Pittsburg to better meet the needs of its clinicians and patients.

The new CT scanner, Revolution Maxima, builds upon a powerful platform with core imaging technologies and provides everything needed to get to the right diagnosis the first time. It improves the exam quality on patients with hardware (such as joint replacement), decreases patient breath hold times and reduces time in the scanner.

“This state-of-the-art machine provides more images and of a...

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Carthage, Texas (February 23, 2024) —  UT Health East Texas installed a new CT scanner at UT Health Carthage to better meet the needs of its clinicians and patients.

The new CT scanner, Revolution Maxima, builds upon a powerful platform with core imaging technologies and provides everything needed to get to the right diagnosis the first time. It improves the exam quality on patients with hardware (such as joint replacement), decreases patient breath hold times and reduces time in the scanner.

“This state-of-the-art machine provides more images and of a...

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Jacksonville, Texas (April 15, 2024) —  After 50 years working as a nurse and other positions at the hospital, UT Health Jacksonville’s Quality and Patient Safety Director Debbie McCaslin said it’s easy to think she has seen it all, but she is proved wrong every time. 

“You never see it all in a job like this,” she said recalling her storied nursing career, which started when the hospital was named Nan Travis Memorial Hospital. “That’s what’s good about this job — every day is different, so whatever problem presents itself is what you work on that day.” 

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Tyler, Texas (March 27, 2024) —  UT Health East Texas will discontinue Long-Term Acute Care (LTAC) services next month as the health system responds to the community’s changing healthcare needs and a growing demand for inpatient acute care beds in Tyler. 

The LTAC, which has 18 patient beds, serves patients experiencing chronic, acute illnesses requiring an estimated length of stay of 25 days with complex medical treatment.  

As UT Health Tyler expands services such as women’s health and cardiac care, including the start of an...

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Quitman and Tyler, Texas (February 29, 2024) — UT Health East Texas announced today that two of its hospitals, UT Health Quitman and UT Health Tyler, have been recognized for outstanding quality and employee satisfaction by its parent company, Ardent Health Services.

UT Health Quitman was honored for its commitment to clinical excellence with Ardent’s Quality Award. Presented annually, the Quality Award recognizes outstanding performance across a range of clinical quality and patient safety measures, including infection rates, safety events and ratings from...

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