FEATURED: Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, a world-renowned trauma surgeon from Houston, poses in front of the Level One Trauma Center at DHR Health in Edinburg, which now displays his name in his honor. Gov. Greg Abbott was among the more than 200 area leaders who were present on Tuesday, September 20, 2022, for the naming of the Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit.
Photograph Courtesy DHR HEALTH Facebook
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Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit at DHR Health honors world-class surgeon for being “humble servant leader, guiding and educating with passion, and as a pioneer in trauma care”
DAVID A. DÍAZ
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When DHR Health leaders several years ago began their historic and life-saving journey to establish the first Level One Trauma Center in South Texas, they worked closely with a world-class giant in the medical profession – Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox of Houston.
Level One Trauma Centers treat the most critical injuries that can happen: severe car accidents, falls from high places, gunshot or deep knife wounds, and other emergencies with extreme injuries. These cases require immediate, expert care from multiple disciplines to get the patient stabilized and on the road to recovery.
Patients with the most serious injuries are designated a level 1 trauma, indicating a need for a larger trauma team and faster response time. The determination of trauma code criteria varies between hospitals and is based on elements such as physiologic data, types of injury, and mechanism of injury.
Dr. Jeffrey Skubic, D.O., Medical Director of the Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit at DHR Health, provided more details about the invaluable roles played by Dr. Mattox on behalf of DHR Health and the Rio Grande Valley.
“Dr. Mattox, from all of us here at DHR Health, we want to say thank you so much for your mentorship and guidance over the years in our trauma program. We know that you were instrumental throughout this entire process for helping us build trauma care in our region,” said Dr. Skubic. “Here in the Rio Grande Valley, we would have never been able to accomplish a Level One Trauma Center without your specific guidance, from helping us build our trauma center to our protocols, to our research program. You were there for us through all of it.”
The purpose of the protocol is to establish guidelines for trauma team activation and define the members of the responding trauma team to facilitate the resuscitation and management of critical or seriously injured patients who require rapid, organized resuscitation, evaluation and stabilization to promote optimal outcomes. It also serves to provide triage guidelines for adult and pediatric patients.
Dr. Mattox is a Distinguished Service Professor at Baylor College of Medicine and Chief of Staff and Surgeon-in-Chief at Ben Taub Hospital, where he has worked since 1973. Ben Taub Hospital has been at the forefront of surgical critical care, breaking ground with its automated system for the storage and retrieval of laboratory data in 1975. Dr. Mattox helped develop the internationally renowned Ben Taub Hospital Emergency Center and its equally respected Trauma Center. His reputation as an innovator in trauma care is known worldwide.
https://www.bcm.edu/people-search/kenneth-mattox-26215
As part of a special video recording played during the ceremony, Dr. Ricardo Martínez, MD, FACS, MHA, Assistant Trauma Director/General Surgery Trauma, DHR Health, spoke about Dr. Mattox’ influence and inspiration for medical professionals throughout the world.
“Your saying, ‘Go to the heart of danger, and there you will find safety,’ has been taken to heart by me. Very often, I go back and I think of that, when things get difficult, I actually hear your voice, that deep, booming voice that you’ve got that commands your presence and attention,” Dr. Martínez said. “You’ve given me many tips, many things that have helped me to not only navigate political waters in health care and in trauma, guidance that has helped me tremendously personally, and I think you do this for everybody, and we all thank you.”
A Level One Trauma Center is a comprehensive regional resource that is a tertiary care facility central to the trauma system. A Level One Trauma Center is capable of providing total care for every aspect of injury – from prevention through rehabilitation.
The tertiary care level, which is provided by the Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit at DHR Health, is for extremely specialized care over a short or extended period involving complex and advanced equipment, treatment or procedures, often for severe or life-threatening conditions.
https://www.indeed.com/career-advice/career-development/levels-of-care-primary-secondary-tertiary
On Tuesday, September 20, 2022, more than 200 medical, community, regional and statewide leaders – featuring Gov. Greg Abbott – were at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance to celebrate the one-year anniversary of DHR Health being designated by the Texas Department of State Health Services as a Level One Trauma Center, and to name that vital resource for South Texas in honor of Dr. Mattox.
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/dshs-ems-trauma-systems/trauma-system-development
Prior to DHR Health’s designation in September 2021, the nearest Level One Trauma Center was 240 miles away in San Antonio, the governor noted.
“Texans now have access to world-class, comprehensive trauma care in the Rio Grande Valley, thanks to local leaders and the healthcare professionals at DHR Health for earning this Level One Trauma Center designation,” said Gov. Abbott. “The trauma facility is a crucial step in building a safer, healthier future in the Rio Grande Valley, and I am proud to be here today to honor such a tremendous individual in dedicating this center to Dr. Kenneth Mattox.”
Dr. Mattox shared the credit with the governor, the Valley’s state legislators, and DHR Health’s leadership and personnel for bringing a Level One Trauma Center to the Valley.
“I am forever humbled. I am very grateful, and it is a real honor to be here. Thank you very much for this honor. But it it to you that I congratulate,” Dr. Mattox told the audience. “I congratulate you for your vision, I congratulate you for your fortitude, for your persistence, and what you have created.”
Despite all the positive attention on him, and his impressive credentials and achievements, Dr. Mattox remained a modest man, much more pleased in seeing South Texas now having top-notch emergency medical care that rivals all Level One Trauma Centers in Texas and beyond.
“My name on the DHR Level One Trauma Center building is an ever reminder, as you have already heard, that service to quality medical care, education of the next generation of health workers, seeking new knowledge, and populating the many health facilities in the Texas region with the recognition of the Renaissance brand, is indeed what it’s all about,” he said.
“Time will dim memories of this celebration. But as future clinicians enter the doors of this trauma center, let this name inspire you and them to always reach for the best way to serve your patients and our profession. There is always a better way,” Dr. Mattox proclaimed. “(Doctors Hospital at) Renaissance is making it possible for you to find that better course. Go to the heart of the challenge, and there you will find safety, success and satisfaction.”
DHR Health was the original teaching hospital for the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley School of Medicine and encompasses a general acute hospital with the only dedicated women’s hospital south of San Antonio, a rehabilitation hospital, a behavioral hospital, more than 70 clinics Valley-wide, advanced cancer services, the only transplant program in the Rio Grande Valley – and as of September 8, 2021, the first 24/7 Designated Level One Trauma Center south of San Antonio.
On Tuesday, November 16, 2021, Driscoll Health System, in partnership with DHR Health, held a groundbreaking ceremony for Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley, located at 2820 W. Michelangelo Drive in Edinburg, which is being built on the site of the DHR Health campus, next to DHR Health’s The Women’s Hospital at Renaissance.
The new, independently operated eight-level pediatric hospital will further the mission of Driscoll Children’s Hospital founder Clara Driscoll to provide medical care to all the children of South Texas. The building is expected to be completed in Spring 2023.
The Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley represents a combined investment of more than $105 million. Driscoll Children’s Hospital Rio Grande Valley will operate with more than 500 employees, creating significant economic impact and new job opportunities for clinical, ancillary and support staff in the Valley.
Doctors Hospital at Renaissance, Ltd (“DHR”) and its general partner, RGV Med, Inc. (“RGV Med”) own and operate a 519 licensed bed general acute care hospital located at 5501 South McColl in Edinburg. The facility is one of the largest physician-owned facilities in the United States that began as an ambulatory surgery center in 1997.
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The transcription of the the dedication ceremony held on Tuesday, September 20, 2022 featuring Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox follows:
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
Medical Director
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit
DHR Health
People tell you not to try to meet your heroes, that you will be disappointed. Well, I have met Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, and he has never disappointed.
Dr. Mattox graduated from Wayland Baptist University in 1960 and attended Baylor College of Medicine after that. He trained and then worked under Dr. Michael DeBakey, as faculty, also at Baylor. He continued there, eventually become Chief of Surgery at Ben Taub Hospital and Chair of Surgery at Baylor.
(Editor’s Note: Michael Ellis DeBakey was a Lebanese-American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the Department of Surgery, President, and Chancellor of Baylor College of Medicine at the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas. His career spanned nearly eight decades.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_DeBakey)
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
He (Dr. Mattox) has always told me, “Challenge dogma. Seek out the truth.”
(Editor’s Note:A dogma is a belief or set of beliefs that is accepted by the members of a group without being questioned or doubted.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogma
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
He has truly done this for his entire career. His Trauma textbook and Top Knife manual have become the fundamental texts for trauma surgeons worldwide. It’s always a pleasant surprise when I have discovered a copy of books at various Latin American hospital libraries, tens of thousands of miles away from Texas.
(Editor’s Note: Unparalleled in its breadth and depth of expertly crafted content, Trauma takes you through the full range of injuries you are likely to encounter. With a full-color atlas of anatomic drawings and surgical approaches, this trusted classic provides thorough coverage of kinematics and the mechanisms of trauma injury, the epidemiology of trauma, injury prevention, the basics of trauma systems, triage, and transport, and more. It then reviews generalized approaches to the trauma patient, from pre-hospital care and managing shock, to emergency department thoracotomy and the management of infections; delivers a clear, organ-by-organ survey of treatment protocols; and shows how to handle specific challenges in trauma?including alcohol and drug abuse, and combat-related wounds?in addition to post-traumatic complications such as multiple organ failure.
Top Knife is a practical guide to operative trauma surgery for residents and registrars, for general surgeons with an interest in trauma, and for isolated surgeons operating on wounded patients in military, rural or humanitarian settings.)
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
It gives me great reassurance to know that even there, far away from Texas, surgeons are trying to practice in the way Dr. Mattox has taught us all.
Before meeting Dr. Mattox, I had been a fan for many years, carrying his Top Knife book in my white coat pocket throughout trauma surgery fellowship and while rotating abroad in Latin America. It has gotten me out of trouble many times in the middle of the night, bringing me comfort in my darkest times.
I have followed his suggestion, which he actually hand wrote into my book when he signed it, “Go to the heart of danger, and there you will find safety.”
Maybe we should put that on the wall too. It’s pretty good.
I think that quote doesn’t only apply to surgery; it applies to life.
When you have a problem, something’s that worrying you, and issue that makes you nervous, don’t run and hide from it; don’t skirt around it, head straight to the center of the problem, “The heart of the danger.” And face it head on. And then you will have peace.
Only after several years do I finally appreciate the beauty and profoundness of this quote, so thank you.
The very foundation of how we practice trauma surgery were defined by this man. Who better to dedicate our trauma unit to, than Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox? He is a man, only a man, but some men transcend above all others, actually elevating our species. And he sits among us today.
Dr. Mattox, without your constant guidance, mentorship and leadership, this trauma center would never have come to be what it is.
You may have been hundreds of miles away, but you have always had your eyes fixed on the place. You knew the potential of this place, and that tens of thousands of lives could be saved. If we raised the level of care here.
You believed in us from the beginning. Here’s a look at how you’ve impacted our work as a Level One Trauma team.
Transcription of Video
Presentation Follows:
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, FACS
Distinguished Service Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Chief of Staff
Ben Taub General Hospital
How’d your case go? In the ICU?
Tonight, I’m on call as I start the evening when other physicians are leaving, and I’m the only surgeon left in the house. I try to get a feel for where the problems are, where the patients that are well are. Are there problems in the emergency center, are there problems in the operating room, are there problems in the ICU? I could be up all night tonight and all day tomorrow. It’s just part of the job. I have the best job in town. I probably have the best job in the country.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
Dr. Mattox, from all of us here at DHR Health, we want to say thank you so much for your mentorship and guidance over the years in our trauma program. We know that you were instrumental throughout this entire process for helping us build trauma in our region. Here in the Rio Grande Valley, we would have never been able to accomplish a Level One Trauma Center without your specific guidance, from helping us build our trauma center to our protocols, to our research program. You were there for us through all of it.
(Editor’s Note: The purpose of the protocol is to establish guidelines for trauma team activation and define the members of the responding trauma team to facilitate the resuscitation and management of critical or seriously injured patients who require rapid, organized resuscitation, evaluation and stabilization to promote optimal outcomes. It also serves to provide triage guidelines for adult and pediatric patients.)
Dr. Alexander L. Eastman, MD, MPH, FACS
Trauma Surgeon
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Dr. Mattox, congratulations on this tremendous honor in having the DHR Level One Trauma Center named in your honor. For generations to come, those injured in the Rio Grande Valley will pass through the doors of the Kenneth Mattox Trauma Center. They’ll see your name, and hopefully they’ll know that not just in name, but in practice, in technique, in mentorship and leadership, you affected the care of the injured patient in the Valley for the foreseeable future. Thank you for that, thank you for all of the friendship, mentorship, and congratulations, sir.
Dr. Adolfo Leyv-Alviso, MD, FACS, MEd
General Surgery
Instituto Del Cirugia TECSalud
Dr. Mattox is an internationally-recognized trauma surgeon, and he is a legend here in Mexico. I had the opportunity to meet him in person a couple of times. He has always been an example to us in our training and to our (medical residents). We use his textbooks Trauma and Top Knife for our medical residents.
(Editor’s Note: A medical resident is a medical school graduate with a Doctor of Medicine (MD) degree who is taking part in a post-graduate training program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Medical residents work at doctors’ offices or hospitals to continue their education and medical training in a specialized field. This is referred to as a ‘residency.’ During their residency, medical residents provide direct care to patients, including diagnosing, managing, and treating health conditions and injuries.
https://www.mua.edu/resources/blog/what-is-a-medical-resident-and-how-long-is-the-residency)
Dr. Adolfo Leyv-Alviso, MD, FACS, MEd
Dr. Mattox, thank you for your guidance, thank you for all your wisdom, thank you for your excellent references in your books, and for your contributions.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
I remember the first time I met you was years ago in Columbia for a Pan American Trauma Society meeting, and you told me to take this job, that it would change my life. And so I listened to you and took it, and you continued to help guide us all along the way. And here were are today with a Level One Trauma Center here in the Rio Grande Valley, thanks very much to your part as well, and your guidance and mentorship.
Dr. Ricardo D. Martínez, MD, FACS, MHA
Assistant Trauma Director/
General Surgery Trauma
DHR Health
Your saying, “Go to the heart of danger, and there you will find safety,” has been taken to heart by me. Very often, I go back and I think of that, when things get difficult, I actually hear your voice, that deep, booming voice that you’ve got that commands your presence and attention. You’ve given me many tips, many things that have helped me to not only navigate political waters in health care and in trauma, guidance that has helped me tremendously personally, and I think you do this for everybody, and we all thank you.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
Your dedication to the patients here in the Rio Grande Valley as well as around the world, as evidenced by all the conferences you attend, as well as your Trauma textbook and your Top Knife book, are immeasurable. So we want to say thank you so much from all of us here at DHR Health for helping support our Level One Trauma Center.
Congratulations on having the trauma bay named in your honor, and it is our duty and honor now to represent you on a daily basis here in the Rio Grande Valley.
Narration By Broadcaster
in Video Presentation
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox played an instrumental role as DHR Health became a Level One Trauma Center.
Known for breakthroughs in trauma medicine, such as “The Mattox Maneuver”, he has been described as a humble servant leader, guiding and educating with passion, and as a pioneer in trauma care.
(Editor’s Note: Dr. Mattox’s name has become synonymous with trauma care. His textbook, Trauma, co-written with Ernest E. Moore, M.D., and David V. Feliciano, M.D., is the definitive guide to trauma surgery. Mattox has made significant breakthroughs in trauma resuscitation—specifically regarding shock, trauma systems, thoracic trauma, vascular trauma, auto transfusion, complex abdominal trauma and multi-system trauma. One trauma technique even bears his name: The “Mattox Maneuver” refers to the mobilization of the descending colon to the midline to expose the abdominal aorta.
https://www.tmc.edu/news/2018/05/man-on-a-mission-2/)
Narration By Broadcaster
in Video Presentation
The books Dr. Mattox has authored on the subject of trauma have become authoritative guidebooks for those wishing to excel in the field. Throughout his career, Dr. Mattox has embodied this. He truly is the Father of Trauma Surgery. Please give a round of applause for Dr. Kenneth Mattox.
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Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
Please join me in welcoming Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox.
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, FACS
I am forever humbled. I am very grateful, and it is a real honor to be here. Thank you very much for this honor. But it it to you that I congratulate. I congratulate you for your vision, I congratulate you for your fortitude, for your persistence, and what you have created.
Governor, I am so very proud to be a Texan. I really am glad that I am here and I have lived her since 1960.
I love being a surgeon. It’s my way of problem-solving. A surgical approach to all problems is our motivation.
I love being a researcher and a teacher in trauma care, and a consultant to innovative, insightful people – that’s you.
In ever city that has a Level One anything – trauma center, heart center, neonatal center, stroke center, and now coming down the line is Subsys – all regulated and reviewed by TETAF (Texas EMS Trauma and Acute Care Foundation), which is a state agency. TETAF review this place, I got a report the next day, and we started making mid-course corrections as of then.
Representatives from this area now are on those state committees that talk about regional health care delivery.
The Renaissance (DHR) team – in every city where there are those specialized centers – the bar is raised while the cost decreases. Because of the regulations that are required to buy certain kinds of equipment and have certain kinds of people, the entire venue of that health care complex benefits. So the trauma center is not just for trauma, it’s for the entire complex of what is needed.
Governor, this is local solutions to local problems using professional regulations and standards. That’s the Texas way. That’s what it’s all about. So the message about what we see here, you and I can tell the world, “Just look to the Renaissance for your own renaissance”.
Governor Abbott, Mr. Cantú, Dr. (Ricardo D.) Martínez, Dr. Skubic, and all other colleagues that are here, let there be no misunderstanding that the big winner in DHR Health’s renaissance vision is to the people who have the most complex medical and surgical problems that are presented in the healthcare profession.
Indeed, without a doubt, Level One recognition has across-the-board quality elevation for all programs.
Indeed, Level One Trauma Center, with the kind of things that have happened here, is a profit center, for not only for all hospitals, clinics and physicians and nurses of the region, it’s a profit center for the community. Let me explain the economics.
Every place there’s a Level One Trauma Center, if you get a given diagnosis, the cost of that code goes down compared to the rest of the community, and the results are better.
(Editor’s Note: Trauma center care not only saves lives, it is a cost-effective way of treating major trauma— Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Injury Research and Policy. Although treatment at a trauma center is more expensive, the benefits of this approach in terms of lives saved and quality of life years gained outweigh the costs.
https://www.kdhe.ks.gov/DocumentCenter/View/11358/Benefits-of-a-Trauma-Center-by-Darlene-Whitlock-Independent-Consultant-2020-PDF?bidId=)
Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox, MD, FACS
Governor, in medicine, by CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services), the definition of value is quality – that means return to work, return to family, over costs – so if the cost is lower, and the quality is better, that value is high.
The value to a community, economically, is elevated by having a Level One Trauma Center, plus training the next generation of all heath care workers that supply all the other facilities. That, indeed, is absolutely amazing. It’s an example that every other state ought to follow.
This example, I’ve been able to tell personally to the last six (U.S) presidents, “You know, if they just do what Texas does, we’d all be better off.”
I am forever grateful that you’ve created the Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit, and in doing so, are honoring the long association in many programs we’ve had together with Baylor of College Medicine and with me personally.
You’re pursing excellence, have attention to detail, and emphasize of ownership. I remind you ownership is what drives Navy Seals to take on a chore and follow it to the end, and make it perfect.
Failure is not an option.
It’s the formula for value, quality, and success.
My name on the DHR Level One Trauma Center building is an ever reminder, as you have already heard, that service to quality medical care, education of the next generation of health workers, seeking new knowledge, and populating the many health facilities in the Texas region with the recognition of the Renaissance brand, is indeed what it’s all about.
Time will dim memories of this celebration. But as future clinicians enter the doors of this trauma center, let this name inspire you and them to always reach for the best way to serve your patients and our profession. There is always a better way.
Renaissance is making it possible for you to find that better course. Go to the heart of the challenge, and there you will find safety, success and satisfaction.
I’d like to ask Dr. (Ricardo) Martínez, Dr. Skubic, and Mr. Cantú to come just to the podium for a moment.
I would like to present to the DHR Health and to the Renaissance way something that I looked hard and long to leave with you. You saw the ninth edition of the Trauma book, which is now responsible for 90 percent of the Trauma sales worldwide.
In my hands I have an extremely, extremely rare first edition, uncirculated copy of the book Trauma. It’s only been opened once since 1988, and that was yesterday as I signed my name and wrote a little note to you all for what you’ve achieved. So I leave with you a rare first edition of Trauma.
Thank you all for the honor you have given.
Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
Many did not see all the behind-the-scenes work you did to help us, all the trips you flew down here on your own time. But we did. And we haven’t forgotten. And so, in your honor, we hereby dedicate the DHR Health Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit in your namesake.
Marcy Martínez is outside with more.
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Transcription of Video
Presentation Follows:
Marcy Martínez
Director of Public Relations
and Corporate Communications
DHR Health
The time has come to reveal the new sign on our emergency department here at the corner of Dove and Doctors Drive in Edinburg. Let’s count down. Five. Four. Three. Two. One.
(Editor’s Note: A brief video presentation viewed inside of the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance shows the live unveiling of the Dr. Kenneth L. Mattox Trauma Unit at DHR Health building moniker.)
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Dr. Jeffrey J. Skubic, DO, MSC, FACS
And since you can’t take that large sign with you, Doctor, we would like to present you with a plaque commemorating this day.
Now as we continue to build this program for our region, we must remember all the others. None of this would be possible without our hospital pre-hospital providers. Without dedicated men and women of EMS working tirelessly around the clock in the field to the care of patients in the trenches, to save them at the scene of the accident, we would have no patients to bring here.
Without all the hospital workers, including all the nurses, we would have no one working alongside us surgeons.
Without our trainees – our medical residents and medical students, we would hav no one to educate along the way.
We must remember the other hospitals in our regions. We invite them to follow in our footsteps. We have offered assistance to other major hospitals in the region to help them develop their trauma programs.
We will continue to push forward with developing or system to care for our region. DHR Health will continue to act as the beacon on the hill for South Texas, showing what is possible for high quality patient care, even in an underserved region.
As DHR Health continues to spearhead future projects, we will guide the way and invite others to join in the progress. Please join me in thanking first responders who are here for helping us bring healthcare justice to the region.
I’ll turn it over to Marissa Castañeda for closing remarks.
Marissa Castañeda
Senior Executive Vice President
DHR Health
On behalf of DHR Health, once again, we would like to extend our deepest gratitude to Dr. Mattox for all he has done for DHR Health, the Rio Grande Valley, and trauma care.
Your name on our building stands for the trail you helped forged to bring the highest level of trauma care to our families, loved ones and neighbors here in South Texas. It shines a light on the advances being made right here at home.
Thank you Governor Abbott for joining us today and for your continue support of health care in South Texas, and to our elected leaders as well.
DHR Health remains committed to bring the vey best in health care to the Rio Grande Valley, where patients and quality come first.
And as we celebrate one year of being a Designated Level One Trauma Center, we assures you that we will not stop here. Let us continue to work together to remain the beacon for advancements in health care for South Texas.
Thank you.
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