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

Foundation’s 10th Annual Patient Safety Summit set for Aug. 9-10

06/20/2017

The DFW Hospital Council (DFWHC) Foundation in coordination with the Texas Department of State Health Services will be hosting the 10th Annual Patient Safety Summit and the 2017 TDSHS Healthcare Safety Conference, August 9-10 at the Marriot Las Colinas Hotel in Irving. Titled “Stand Up for Safety!,” the event will be highlighted by Dr. Abdusalam Nasidi, director of the Nigeria … Read More

DFWHC Associate Member Xenex awarded for Visionary Innovation Leadership

06/08/2017

Based on a recent analysis of healthcare room disinfection, Frost & Sullivan recognized Xenex Disinfection Services with the 2017 Global Frost & Sullivan Award for Visionary Innovation Leadership on May 24. The Xenex LightStrike™ Germ-Zapping Robot™ is a portable, no-touch device capable of helping healthcare facilities bring down infection rates by destroying the pathogens that cause them. LightStrike robots deactivate … Read More

Just two days until you can learn about new “Depression Screening” program

04/18/2017

Just two days until the DFW Alliance for Healthcare Excellence educational discussion “VitalSign6: Making Screening for Depression the Sixth Vital Sign” on Thursday, April 20 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Brookhaven Country Club in Farmers Branch. Dr. Madhukar Trivedi of UT Southwestern will serve as speaker. Dr. Trivedi will present an update on UT Southwestern’s unique program … Read More

Sold-out audience discovers the future of infection control

04/06/2017

A sold-out audience attended today’s complimentary DFW Hospital Council educational event “Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Risk with No-Touch Disinfection” at the Marriott DFW Airport in Irving. Speaker Dr. Roy F. Chemaly, renown professor of medicine and director of infection control from the UT MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, received some of the highest approval scores of the past … Read More

“No-Touch Disinfection” – only a few seats left to Thursday’s luncheon!

04/04/2017

The future of hospital infection control is here and it’s known as “No-Touch Disinfection.” There’s only a few seats left to Thursday’s educational luncheon “Improving Patient Safety and Reducing Risk with No-Touch Disinfection” hosted by the DFW Hospital Council. Today is your last chance to register! The event is from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the Marriott DFW Airport … Read More

DFWHC’s Love to be guest speaker on Sept. 14 healthcare webinar

09/12/2016

DFW Hospital Council President/CEO W. Stephen Love will serve as guest speaker in the free 30-minute live webinar “The Importance of Staying Up to Date on Health Care Innovations” this Wednesday, September 14 from 10-10:30 a.m. The webinar is hosted by FreshLoc Technologies & Wello Inc. The objective of the webinar is to educate attendees on the importance of staying … Read More

DFWHC launches Infant Brain Development program

07/21/2016

Working with Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council (DFWHC), which unites 90 North Texas member hospitals to advance exceptional healthcare in the region, is launching an Early Brain Development program. The goal of the initiative is to inform new parents of the intellectual and psychological value of spending meaningful time connecting with their newborns. “Growing Little Minds” … Read More