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R E S O L U T I O N
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WHEREAS, The COVID-19 global pandemic has required health |
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care professionals to confront extraordinary, evolving, and |
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historic challenges, and the physicians, nurses, allied health care |
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staff, support staff, and administration of Northwest Texas |
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Healthcare System have, together as a professional health care |
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team, heroically stood on the front lines in the war against this |
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contagious and deadly virus, and they have resolutely persevered in |
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the face of tremendous adversity wrought by the unseen enemy; and |
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WHEREAS, At the outset of the pandemic, hospitals throughout |
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Texas, including Northwest Texas Healthcare System, intently |
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focused on many matters, including preparedness measures, |
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infection control protocols and screenings, personal protective |
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equipment, and the coordination of response efforts with nearby |
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hospitals; and |
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WHEREAS, The unwavering collective resolve and fortitude |
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demonstrated by the staff of Northwest Texas Healthcare System is |
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the latest chapter in its history of caring for its patients and the |
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community; established in 1924, Northwest Texas Healthcare System |
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is an acute care facility and medical center nationally known for |
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its heart, emergency, stroke, and pediatric services; an advanced |
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level III trauma facility, the emergency department has expanded to |
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include freestanding locations; and |
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WHEREAS, Although COVID-19 put a tremendous strain on |
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hospitals across the country, the professional team of Northwest |
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Texas Healthcare System worked together to provide medical care to |
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patients and to the community-at-large under extremely physically |
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and mentally exhausting circumstances; and |
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WHEREAS, In resolutely facing, adapting to, and overcoming |
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the ever-evolving and unprecedented health care circumstances |
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thrust upon them, all associated with the hospital are indeed |
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deserving of recognition for their tireless heroic work on the |
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front lines in the war against COVID-19; now, therefore, be it |
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RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 87th Texas |
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Legislature hereby commend the physicians, nurses, and all |
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frontline personnel as well as the support staff and administration |
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of Northwest Texas Healthcare System for their outstanding, noble, |
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and heroic service to the people of Amarillo, the greater Texas |
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Panhandle, and the Tri-State region of Texas, Oklahoma, and New |
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Mexico; and, be it further |
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RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be |
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prepared for the staff of Northwest Texas Healthcare System as an |
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expression of high regard by the Texas House of Representatives. |