13 Facts About Parkland Hospital

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Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital in Dallas, Texas, United States.

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The name Parkland came from the land on which the hospital was built, originally purchased by the city as a park.

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In 1954, Parkland Hospital moved to 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard about a mile from its original site.

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Parkland Hospital is best known as the hospital where five individuals associated with the assassination of United States President John F Kennedy either died or were pronounced dead: President Kennedy himself, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, Jack Ruby who later killed Oswald, Abraham Zapruder, who had filmed Kennedy's assassination, and Jean Hill, another witness to the assassination.

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The 2013 film Parkland dramatizes the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald in the hospital.

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Parkland Hospital earned top marks in meeting non-discrimination and training criteria that demonstrate its commitment to equitable, inclusive care for LGBT patients and their families.

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Parkland Hospital serves as one of Dallas's four Level I Trauma Centers, a primary care center for Dallas County residents, and as a medical and surgical referral center for North Texas and parts of Southern Oklahoma.

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The Parkland Burn Center, one of the largest civilian burn units in the US, is famous for the Parkland Formula for fluid resuscitation, developed by Charles R Baxter in the 1960s.

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The fame of the Parkland Hospital formula is due to its being one of the first treatments for burn that included rehydration and electrolytic management.

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Parkland Hospital Memorial has eleven prenatal clinics and employs 72 doctors training to become obstetricians-gynecologists and 45 nurse-midwives.

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Parkland Hospital created one of the first high-risk antenatal units in the nation and had the first neonatal intensive care unit in North Texas.

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Parkland Hospital has approximately 240,000 emergency visits a year, for the co-located main emergency department, and the urgent care unit.

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Parkland Hospital is the base for Biotel, the medical direction system used by Dallas Fire-Rescue as well as fourteen other emergency medical service agencies in the Metroplex.

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