DFWHC’s Winter Interlocutor now available

01/29/2018

The DFW Hospital Council’s Winter edition of the Interlocutor magazine is now available. Click the graphic below to read the latest on the upcoming 22nd Annual Employee of the Year Luncheon, the successful passing of the recent Fort Worth smoking ban and the “Active Shooter Training” class DFWHC will be hosting in association with Fisher Phillips. Hard copies will be … Read More

“Active Shooter Training” seminar set for Feb. 21

01/16/2018

With workplace violence on the rise in the U.S., the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) and employment lawyers at Fisher Phillips invite hospital executives, employees and security professionals to attend the proactive presentation “Active Shooter Training: What to do in the Healthcare Workplace” on Wednesday, February 21 from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children … Read More

Hall Render – Take heed Texas healthcare employers

11/21/2017

The DFW Hospital Council is posting blogs submitted by our Associate Members. The following was provided by Hall Render. For guidelines, please contact Chris Wilson at chrisw@dfwhc.org. The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is a federal law that establishes, among other things, when time spent by an employee is compensable. Because the Texas Payday Law defers to the FLSA on … Read More

DFWHC and Vestagen to host Dr. Royer event on healthcare future

08/17/2017

What does the future hold? Attendees can find out Friday, September 15 when the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) and Vestagen co-host the educational event “The Acute Care Hospital of the Future: A Dangerous Place.” This complimentary “Lunch & Learn” will be highlighted by speaker Dr. Thomas Royer, former president/CEO of CHRISTUS Health and author of the new book “Breaking Out … Read More

NBCDFW-TV covers Patient Safety Summit and Vestagen scrubs

08/10/2017

Thanks to a first-ever Dallas visit of Dr. Abdusalam Nasidi, the former director of the Nigeria Center for Disease Control who worked the front lines during Africa’s recent Ebola outbreak, the DFW Hospital Council Foundation’s 10th Annual Patient Safety Summit received some news coverage last night on NBCDFW-TV. The segment detailed not only the Summit, which continues through today at … Read More

Foundation’s Patient Safety Summit attracts 300-plus

08/09/2017

It’s a crowded house today for the DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation’s 10th Annual Patient Safety Summit at the Marriott Las Colinas in Irving. More than 300 attendees are presently listening to the discussion from an Ebola Panel to include Dr. Abdulsalami Nasidi, Executive Director of the Regional Centre for Disease Control of the Economic Community of West African States … Read More

DFWHC teams with Vestagen to promote ground-breaking scrubs and lab coats

08/07/2017

The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC) and Vestagen Protective Technologies, Inc. today announced a partnership to promote the company’s VESTEX® Active Barrier (1) healthcare apparel. The VESTEX fabric combines fluid repellency and antimicrobial technologies into comfortable healthcare worker scrubs and lab coats. The teaming is expected to benefit North Texas hospitals by introducing them to new groundbreaking technology that has … Read More

Speaker announced for Aug. 16 DFWHC/Hall Render event

08/03/2017

Robin Sheridan, an attorney with Hall Render whose area of expertise is human resources and employment litigation, was announced today as the speaker of the August 16 educational event “Bullying and Workplace Harassment plus Discipline and Discharge” from 7:30 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The complimentary session is the second of four events DFWHC … Read More

Hall Render’s Kim details foreign employee recruitment for DFWHC members

07/27/2017

Michael Lee Kim, an attorney at Hall Render who specializes in immigration, served as the speaker during yesterday’s DFW Hospital Council complimentary educational meeting “Foreign Physician Recruitment and Green Card Options for Foreign Healthcare Employees” at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children. The event was hosted in coordination with Hall Render and was the first of four events in the … Read More

Green Card – in today’s environment, a truly hot topic

07/21/2017

Green Card – in today’s environment, a truly hot topic. As demand for healthcare professionals continues to rise, more and more healthcare employers find themselves dealing with candidates for positions as physicians, nurses, therapists and other healthcare professionals who are not U.S. citizens or permanent residents. In order to deal with increasing employee shortages, hospital leaders have increasingly had to … Read More