Tarrant County tracks the number of patients admitted to an inpatient bed, including the ICU, NICU, PICU, newborns, and daycare, the previous calendar day and who had confirmed COVID-19. County Commissioner Roy Charles Brooks recently met with MHMR, the county sheriff and the county administrator to discuss a possible expansion of acceptable charges that would make a person eligible to be transferred to the center. Dr. Papst, who previously served as medical director at Ascension Seton Medical Center in Austin, helped expand graduate medical education to more than 36 residency and scholarship programs and was able to significantly reduce infections associated with health care. She completed medical school and residency at the University of Arizona and earned a master's degree in Health Care Transformation from the University of Texas at Austin while serving as CMO at Ascension.
She also has a doctorate in nursing from the Texas Tech Health Science Center (Executive Nursing Leadership) and is active in community organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and the American Heart Association. The hospital, which serves North Texas as a level I trauma center and emergency center of excellence by Emergency Excellence, has also received the most advanced certification from the Joint Commission as a comprehensive stroke center and is the first hospital in the country to obtain the prestigious designation of Primary Heart Attack Center from the Joint Commission. DeLeon is an active community leader and serves as chairman of the boards of directors of the Texas Rehabilitation Hospital and March of Dimes of Tarrant County, and of the boards of directors of the North Texas Community Foundation and the Healthy Tarrant County Collaboration. So, how many patients are admitted daily at each medical center in Tarrant County? The answer depends on several factors such as capacity, availability of beds, and other resources. However, according to Ramey Heddins, chief of behavioral services for Tarrant County MHMR, which operates the center, it can accommodate 30 to 40 people a day.
