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Posted: 9/5/2018
Recognized for providing quality burn care to patients
Parkland Health & Hospital System has been re-verified as an adult and pediatric burn center by the American Burn Association and the Committee on Trauma of the American College of Surgeons. This achievement recognizes Parkland’s dedication and commitment to providing high quality burn care to patients. Parkland has been a verified burn center since 1996. Parkland is the only verified burn center in North Texas.
Verified burn centers must meet a series of stringent criteria that ensure burn care capability and institutional performance, as outlined by the American College of Surgeons’ Committee on Trauma in the Burn Care chapter of its Resources for Optimal Care of the Injured Patient manual. This spectrum of care extends from the pre-hospital phase through the rehabilitation process.
In a letter from the American Burn Association, Sharmila Dissanaike, MD, FACS, and Kimberly Hoarle, MBA, CAE, wrote, “We commend the Parkland Regional Burn Center for its commitment to excellence and its commitment to providing quality burn care to its patients.”
Parkland’s burn team has the experience and expertise to treat all types of burns regardless of how severe and complex. For more than 50 years, burn center staff has been leaders in the education of the next generation of healthcare providers and has been an engine of clinical research moving the science of burn care forward.
“This accomplishment is a reflection of the hard work of the entire burn team. We also could not achieve this level of care without our many partners at Parkland who work tirelessly to support our mission to care for patients with burn injuries,” said Kathleen Doherty, RN, Parkland’s Director of Nursing for Surgical Services.
“We are committed to continued participation in the verification process and we welcome evaluation by the American Burn Association,” Doherty added. “We want the communities we serve to know that we are dedicated to providing the highest quality burn care.”
In the final report, the surveyors commended the burn center for having a “burn team composed of tremendous leaders of national and international stature with an established history of providing excellent care to the North Texas community.” Surveyors also noted “ample evidence of continued contributions to the field through excellent research and offering the most up to date treatments, including laser therapy.”
In addition, the report also identified the new burn center facilities, which opened in August 2015, as “a model for new burn center construction.”
But the care and treatment goes far beyond the hospital walls.
Rehabilitation experts begin working with burn survivors as early as possible to start them on the road to recovery. Outreach specialists work with schools throughout the region to teach students about burn injuries and to help injured youngsters return to school. For more than 25 years, Parkland has sponsored a week-long camp, Camp I-Thonka-Chi, which is Choctaw for “a place that makes one strong or fearless, not afraid to face life,” free-of-charge for children ages 6 to 18 with burn injuries. And for the last eight years a weekend retreat has been held for adults with burn injuries. Both provide a place for them to interact with peers who have experienced similar circumstances.
Established in 1962, the Parkland Burn Center is the second largest civilian burn center in the nation, providing care to more than 2,200 patients annually. Serving North Texas and surrounding areas, this comprehensive burn center is one of only 62 verified burn centers in North America and provides all services from emergency treatment to intensive care to rehabilitation and outpatient follow-up care.
For more information, visit www.parklandhospital.com.