[Congressional Record Volume 150, Number 66 (Wednesday, May 12, 2004)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E829-E830]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     REMEMBERING DR. JAMES E. HAYES

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                           HON. RALPH M. HALL

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, May 12, 2004

  Mr. HALL of Texas. Mr. Speaker, I am honored today to pay tribute to 
an esteemed physician and administrator from the Fourth Congressional 
District of Texas, Dr. James E. Hayes, who died recently at the young 
age of 49 of multiple myeloma. Dr. Hayes was nationally renowned as an 
effective and innovative emergency room physician and administrator 
during his twenty-two year career.
  Jim Hayes was born in Sherman, Texas, and graduated from Whitesboro 
High School in 1972 and Grayson County College in 1973. He received his 
bachelor's degree from Texas Tech University in 1976, graduating summa 
cum laude, and received his medical degree from Southwestern Medical 
School 4 years later.

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  Jim dedicated his career to serving the healthcare needs of the 
citizens of North Texas. He began as a staff emergency physician in 
1981 at Methodist Medical Center, where he was named associate medical 
director of emergency services. In 1991, while at Methodist, he was 
named medical director for CareFlite Dallas.
  He left Methodist in 1992 to become chairman of the emergency 
medicine division of the department of surgery at UT Southwestern. At 
the same time he served as director of the Poison Control Center and 
director of emergency services at Parkland Memorial Hospital. In 1997, 
in recognition of his years of outstanding leadership and service, he 
was named to the Riggs Family Chair in Emergency Medicine at UT 
Southwestern.
  In 1999 Jim joined EMCare, a Dallas-based emergency department 
management company, as the chief of medical affairs and served in that 
capacity until September, 2003, when he left EMCare for medical 
reasons. In October, as a testament to his many contributions to his 
profession, he received the James D. Mills Award for Outstanding 
Contributions to Emergency Medicine from the American College of 
Emergency Physicians.
  Dr. Jim Hayes will be long remembered as a dedicated physician, 
talented administrator and emergency room innovator. The citizens of 
North Texas have lost a valuable asset and a good friend, and we send 
our heartfelt condolences to his family--mother, Helen Acker Hayes of 
Whitesboro; brother, Bill Hayes of Whitesboro; and sister, Diane Hayes 
Gibson of Sherman.
  I have lost a great personal friend--one I could always rely on for 
advice and direction regarding any pending health issues. He was a kind 
and valuable friend--and the world is better off because he walked this 
way. Jim had unquestioned ethics, determined loyalty to his patients, 
and was pure class in all of his dealings with those of us who loved 
and admired him.
  Mr. Speaker, as we adjourn today, I want to take this opportunity in 
the House of Representatives to pay our respects to this dedicated 
physician, esteemed citizen and my good friend--Dr. James E. Hayes.

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