FEATURED: Carlos Cárdenas, MD, Chair, Board of Managers, DHR Health. “This Level One Trauma designation is a reflection upon the work and the belief and the vision that all of you have had,” he said at the Edinburg Conference Center at Renaissance on Wednesday, September 8, 2021, shortly after Gov. Greg Abbott announced that DHR Health had been designated as the top trauma center south of San Antonio. “I have come before many of you many times over the years and talked to you about our vision here at DHR Health. It’s always been a vision of transformation. It’s not just about of the delivery of health care, but lifting up an entire area because 1.4 million people deserve the best.”
FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Medal of Honor recipients Gary Burnell Beikirch, Gary Michael Rose, and Clarence Eugene Sasser – veterans of the Vietnam War – pose with Rep. ÓscarLongoria, D-Mission, in this Spring 2019 image taken in the House of Representatives Chamber at the Texas Capitol.
FEATURED, FROM LEFT: Sen. Juan Hinojosa, D-McAllen, Thuy Dan “Mimi” Nguyen, Student Regent, The University of Texas System, and Dr. Guy Bailey, President, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, at the Luminary Scholars program announcement on Tuesday, October 12, 2021 at the Performing Arts Complex in Edinburg.
FEATURED: Alberto H. Gutiérrez, MD, Assistant Medical Director, DHR Health Hospice. Gutiérrez, through the use of the live Internet video broadcast known as Zoom, on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, testified from the Valley before the House Committee on Public Health, which was meeting at the Texas Capitol Complex in Austin. ‘We are growing economically, we’re getting there, and all I ask is you keep us in mind when you promote new programs, new ideas, and bring us from the bottom of the list to the top at times, and help us not only in health care issues, but in other things.”
FEATURED: Sen. Judith Zaffirini, D-Laredo/Starr County, addresses students, staff and facility at Texas A&M International University–Laredo on Friday, December 7, 2018. For her work on transparency in government during the 87th Texas Legislature in 2021, Zaffirini on Tuesday, October 5, 2021, was honored at her Capitol office as a Champion of Transparency by the Texas Press Association.
Photograph Courtesy TEXAS A&M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY–LAREDO
