Magazine3 Letter.qxd - Methodist Health System

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Methodist Health System is the only
health system serving southwestern
Dallas County, an area with a largely
disadvantaged population and a
disproportional higher risk of preterm
births. The nationally recognized
Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
(NICU) at Methodist Dallas
Medical Center, where 95 percent of
the infants born as young as 25 weeks
survive, also serves as a regional
referral center for high-risk infants. The
hospital continually seeks to improve
technologies and equipment to
provide quality care to 750 fragile
newborns annually.
Compassion
forHigh-risk
Newborns
Neonatologist Dr. Carlos Laos
in the Methodist Dallas
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
We deeply appreciate the generous
donations to the NICU and women’s
services programs through the Robert
S. Folsom Leadership Award dinner
and other gifts to the Methodist Health
System Foundation.
The E. V. Brown Memorial Golf
Tournament was established
in honor of the first president of
Austin Commercial to benefit
the health care needs of
children, a cause to which Mr.
Brown was devoted. Methodist
Health System has been one
of the beneficiaries of the event
for the past two years. More
than 400 construction industry
participants joined in the 11th
annual event held in September
2007, raising $25,500 for the
NICU at Methodist Dallas
Medical Center.
“Austin Commercial has had a
relationship with Methodist
Health System dating back to
the late 1980s. We are fortunate
to be part of changes that have
happened at the main campus
and Methodist Charlton Medical
Center as well. It’s great that we
have an opportunity to support
the hospitals,” said Brad Brown,
tournament chair and marketing
manager at Austin Commercial.
The Lupe Murchison
Foundation supports charitable
causes benefiting the Dallas
community. The foundation was
established a few years ago
from the estate of Lupe
Murchison, widow of John D.
Murchison, a former co-owner
of the Dallas Cowboys,
remembering the couple’s active
support for civic and cultural
needs. The foundation
Established in 1978, the Neonatal
Intensive Care Unit at Methodist
Dallas Medical Center was the
second facility of its kind in Dallas
and now boasts a survival rate
nearly twice the national average.
generously contributed
$100,000 for the Robert S.
Folsom Leadership Award event.
“The trustees were very
impressed with the nature of
work Methodist Health System
is doing in the NICU as well as
the impact it is having in a
number of other areas in that
part of the city,” said Robert
McCulloch, a partner at Haynes
& Boone and a trustee of The
Lupe Murchison Foundation.
Other contributors to the
NICU include a $30,670 gift from
the Junior League of Dallas,
$25,000 from the Methodist
Hospitals of Dallas Guild, and
$25,000 from the T. Boone
Pickens Foundation.
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