Happy First Birthday!
Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital
Alliance celebrates its first anniversary.
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it's
been a year full of firsts for Texas Health
Alliance since the facility opened its
doors to our community on Sept. 19,
2012 — the first patient admission,
the first surgery, the first use of the
hospital's advanced technology and imaging equipment, and
perhaps the most joyous of all occasions in a hospital, the first
baby born in the facility.
Vanessa Kress was born at 5:30 p.m. on the day of the
hospital's grand opening. Not a moment too soon for her
parents, Chad and Ruth, who prayed baby Vanessa would wait
at least until the 19th before making her grand entrance. Ruth
wanted to deliver at Texas Health Alliance so she could be close
to her northwest Fort Worth home and to her four other children
ranging in ages from 6 to 14.
"I loved having the birth close to my home," Ruth says. "My
husband went and got the other kids after the baby was born,
and they were able to come up and spend time. I absolutely
loved that part of it."
Texas
Health Alliance's
NICU is rated a Level III
facility, meaning the unit is
approved to provide advanced
and intensive medical care
for premature babies born
as young as 30-weeks
gestation. It is the only
NICU in the Alliance
area.
