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UT Health East Texas recognized for quality care and employee satisfaction
Read more: UT Health East Texas recognized for quality care and employee satisfactionQuitman 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…
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UT Health East Texas acquires six urgent care clinics across East Texas
Read more: UT Health East Texas acquires six urgent care clinics across East TexasTyler, Texas (February 15, 2024) — UT Health East Texas, a leading regional healthcare provider, today announced it has completed the acquisition of five urgent care clinics in the region from QuickVisit Urgent Care in Carthage, Henderson, Jacksonville, Kilgore and Mabank, in addition to fully acquiring the operations of UT Health East Texas Urgent Care…
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Employee Spotlight: DaVina Austin, Senior Human Resources Business Partner
Read more: Employee Spotlight: DaVina Austin, Senior Human Resources Business PartnerAs we celebrate Black History Month, we’re spotlighting our caregivers, the diversity they bring and the difference they make at UT Health East Texas. (February 9, 2024) – DaVina Austin, a senior human resources business partner at UT Health East Texas, was drawn to human resources because it’s a career centered on using her communication skills…
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Do you hear ringing, buzzing, clicking or whooshing sounds in your ears? If so, you are not alone.
Read more: Do you hear ringing, buzzing, clicking or whooshing sounds in your ears? If so, you are not alone.We’ve asked Dr. Katherine Bowman, AuD, audiologist at the UT Health East Texas ENT Center on Three Lakes Parkway in Tyler, to answer some of the more common questions about tinnitus. What is tinnitus? Approximately 25 million American adults will experience tinnitus (the name for that ringing/buzzing sound) in any given year. Tinnitus can be…
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UT Health East Texas to launch region’s first ECMO program
Read more: UT Health East Texas to launch region’s first ECMO programTyler, Texas (January 31, 2024) — UT Health East Texas plans to offer the region’s first adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) program for patients with severe forms of heart and/or lung failure. As an advanced pulmonary and cardiac treatment, ECMO is used for critically ill patients to alleviate the stress on these vital organs, allowing…
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Employee Spotlight: Shoundala Sam Smith
Read more: Employee Spotlight: Shoundala Sam SmithAs we celebrate Black History Month, we’re spotlighting our caregivers, the diversity they bring and the difference they make at UT Health East Texas. (February 1, 2024) — Shoundala “Sam” Smith has spent the past 20 years at UT Health Pittsburg with the primary goal of helping patients through the different roles in which she has…
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Winona High School Theater Class Donates Paintings to UT Health Tyler Pediatrics Unit
Read more: Winona High School Theater Class Donates Paintings to UT Health Tyler Pediatrics UnitTyler, Texas (January 24, 2024) — Karyn Gordon, a freshman at Winona High School, remembers going to her pediatrician’s office and being comforted by the paintings and art on the walls. Now, it’s her own artwork that will provide such comfort to pediatric patients at UT Health Tyler as part of a donation Winona High…
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Family surprised by dad’s unexpected open heart surgery
Read more: Family surprised by dad’s unexpected open heart surgeryRob Taylor was doing almost everything right. For 15 years, the 59-year-old Bullard resident worked out in the gym at least three times a week with his personal trainer. He didn’t smoke and recently added playing in a senior softball league to his list of activities. Though he weighed around 250 pounds, Taylor carried it…
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UT Health Henderson Earns An ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group
Read more: UT Health Henderson Earns An ‘A’ Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog GroupHenderson, Texas (November 6, 2023) — UT Health Henderson earned an “A” Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit watchdog that sets standards for excellence in patient care. Leapfrog assigns an “A,” “B,” “C,” “D” or “F” grade to general hospitals across the country based on over 30 national performance measures reflecting…
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UT Athens surgical nurse says having breast cancer led her to current practice
Read more: UT Athens surgical nurse says having breast cancer led her to current practiceBy Avery Niles Published:& Oct. 16, 2023 at 12:46 PM CDT ATHENS, Texas (KLTV) – Roughly one out of eight women in the U.S. will develop invasive breast cancer in the course of their life. Melisa Collum was working at the UT Health Athens hospital as a registered nurse when she felt a lump in…
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