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| Name       = Parkland Memorial Hospital 
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| Location   = 5201 Harry Hines Blvd.
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Since Ruby's death in 1967, the emergency room has been remodeled and the area where Kennedy was pronounced dead, Oswald was operated on and died and Ruby died now serves as the hospital's emergency radiology department. A plaque commemorating their deaths has been placed in the room.
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== Capabilities ==
Parkland is the Dallas County public hospital; funds are primarily provided by a specially designated property tax on Dallas County residents.
    

Parkland serves as one of the area's three Level I Trauma Centers (alongside [[Baylor University Medical Center]], also in Dallas, and [[John Peter Smith Hospital]] in Fort Worth), a primary care center for Dallas County residents, and (along with UT Southwestern) as a medical and surgical referral center for North Texas and parts of Southern [[Oklahoma]]. Thus, virtually all medical and surgical subspecialties are represented—which makes Parkland a destination for post-graduate medical training. The Parkland Burn Center, one of the largest civilian burn units in the U.S., is famous for the Parkland Formula for fluid resuscitation, developed by [[Charles R. Baxter]] in the 1960s.<ref>{{Citation |last=Baxter |first=Charles R. |last2=Shires |first2=Tom |title=Physiological Response to Crystalloid Resuscitation of Severe Burns |journal=Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |year=1968 |volume=150 |issue=3 |pages=874–894 |doi=10.1111/j.1749-6632.1968.tb14738.x }}</ref>  <ref>{{Citation |work=http://www.dallassouthnews.org/ |url=http://www.dallassouthnews.org/2012/01/12/a-look-back-at-parkland-throughout-the-years/ |title=A look back at Parkland throughout the years |date=Jan. 12, 2012 |accessdate=April 2, 2013 }}.</ref>

At 968 licensed beds, Parkland ranks among the largest teaching hospitals in the nation.  [[Texas Woman's University]] began its Bachelor of Science nursing program at Parkland in 1954 and it is still located within walking distance of the Parkland campus. Parkland also serves as the major teaching hospital of the [[University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center]].    

It has the distinction of delivering more infants under one roof than any other hospital in the nation, averaging 15-16,000 deliveries per year.  Parkland Memorial has eleven prenatal clinics and employs 80 doctors training to become obstetricians-gynecologists and 45 nurse-midwives. In 2005, the staff delivered 15,590 babies, an average of more than 42 infants per day.<ref>Dallas Morning News</ref> Parkland created one of the first high-risk antenatal units in the nation and had the first neo(contracted; show full)er, a {{convert|275000|sqft|m2|adj=on}} office facility, and parking for 6,000 cars. The total cost would be $1.27 billion, to be paid for through three avenues: 1) a $747 million bond proposition (contingent on voter approval, which was obtained in November 2008), 2) $350 million of cash from current and future operations, and 3) $150 million from private donations.<ref>[http://newparkland.parklandhospital.com/about-the-new-hospital/financing.html About the New Hospital - Financing Plan]</ref>
  

The board approved nearly $100 million in contracts and hired two architectural firms – [[HDR, Inc.]] (based in [[Omaha, Nebraska]], but operates a large practice in Dallas) and Corgan Associates Inc. (based in Dallas) – to design the new building. (A parking garage was completed as a design/build project by Whiting-Turner Construction and the architecture firm of Omniplan in January 2012.) One major feature of the new facility is that movements of staff and supplies will be handled in separate corridors (contracted; show full)[[Category:University of Texas System]]
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