[Congressional Record Volume 157, Number 135 (Tuesday, September 13, 2011)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E1612]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




      IN RECOGNITION OF NORTH HILLS HOSPITAL'S 50 YEARS OF SERVICE

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                        HON. MICHAEL C. BURGESS

                                of texas

                    in the house of representatives

                      Tuesday, September 13, 2011

  Mr. BURGESS. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the North Hills 
Hospital as it has been providing excellent health care services to 
northeast Tarrant County for 50 years.
  Originally named Glenview Hospital, North Hills Hospital was founded 
by six family physicians in 1961 with initial funding provided by Rice 
University of Houston. When the hospital opened, it was the first 
suburban hospital in Northeast Tarrant County, and only the second 
hospital within the county to be located outside of downtown Fort 
Worth. In 1983 the facilities were moved to the current location in 
North Richland Hills and renamed as North Hills Hospital.
  In the late 1990s the North Hills Hospital accomplished the 
impressive fete of becoming one of the only hospitals to score a 
perfect score on the Joint Commission Accrediting Survey. This 
hospital's commitment to stellar healthcare service is evident as it 
became the first hospital in the United States to achieve a Level 2 
Chest Pain Center as well as the first hospital in Tarrant County to be 
named a Center of Excellence for Bariatric Surgery.
  In order to improve upon their already outstanding healthcare 
services, North Hills Hospital now offers less invasive and highly 
innovative robotic surgery. Additionally, the hospital has implemented 
a $33 million hospital expansion to provide better convenience for 
their patients.
  Since its inception, North Hills Hospital has grown more than three-
fold, expanding from a 50-bed facility to a 176-bed hospital with 700 
employees and 400 physicians.
  I am honored to represent the staff, physicians, administration and 
patients of North Hills Hospital as the representative of Texas's 26th 
district and celebrate the hospital's 50 years of commitment to health 
care.

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