H.R. No. 668
                                  R E S O L U T I O N
    1-1        WHEREAS, Lois Jean Moore, who serves as president and chief
    1-2  executive officer of the Harris County Hospital District, was
    1-3  recently named a co-recipient of the Healthcare Provider Award by
    1-4  the Houston Area Healthcare Coalition, and this special recognition
    1-5  is indeed well deserved; and
    1-6        WHEREAS, This outstanding administrator oversees the daily
    1-7  operations of the three hospitals and 11 clinics that compose this
    1-8  award-winning district, which is the sixth largest inpatient health
    1-9  care provider in the country; and
   1-10        WHEREAS, Since assuming her post in 1989, Ms. Moore has
   1-11  presided over an especially dynamic period in the hospital
   1-12  district's history; under her leadership, the district completed
   1-13  two new hospitals that now treat virtually all of the city's trauma
   1-14  cases, and it formalized a unique contract with Baylor College of
   1-15  Medicine and the University of Texas Medical School at Houston for
   1-16  the provision of physician services; and
   1-17        WHEREAS, She also has emphasized outpatient care and
   1-18  preventive health care services, instituting an outreach program
   1-19  for the homeless at 11 community sites and extensive programs
   1-20  designed to increase the public's accessibility to immunizations,
   1-21  mammography screening, and early detection and treatment of
   1-22  illnesses in children at high risk, while maintaining the
   1-23  district's low tax rate and nearly doubling its nontax revenue; and
   1-24        WHEREAS, The glowing achievements of Ms. Moore's tenure have
    2-1  focused national attention on the district, which was ranked among
    2-2  the "Top 100" hospitals in the United States by Modern HealthCare
    2-3  magazine in 1994; and
    2-4        WHEREAS, A graduate of Prairie View A&M School of Nursing,
    2-5  Ms. Moore began her career as a nurse in the Ben Taub Hospital
    2-6  emergency room and, shortly thereafter, earned a promotion to the
    2-7  post of emergency center charge nurse; in the ensuing years, she
    2-8  advanced rapidly to the post of director of nursing services at the
    2-9  hospital before leaving Ben Taub in 1977 to become the
   2-10  administrator of Jefferson Davis Hospital, one of the busiest
   2-11  hospitals in the United States; and
   2-12        WHEREAS, During a decade of able leadership at the helm of
   2-13  Jefferson Davis, Ms. Moore acquired a bachelor's degree in nursing
   2-14  and a master's degree in education; in 1987 she was appointed chief
   2-15  operating officer for the Harris County Hospital District, which
   2-16  led to her current position as district president and CEO two years
   2-17  later; and
   2-18        WHEREAS, A prominent member of a number of statewide and
   2-19  national professional organizations, Ms. Moore is a recognized
   2-20  authority in her field who has shared her expertise with First Lady
   2-21  Hillary Rodham Clinton's committee on national health care reform
   2-22  and served as a key member of Governor Ann Richards's Task Force on
   2-23  Health Care; and
   2-24        WHEREAS, Ms. Moore has garnered numerous accolades for her
   2-25  professional accomplishments, including the 1994 Tree of Life Award
   2-26  from the Jewish National Fund and a listing in Who's Who in
   2-27  America; she also is well regarded in her community, where she is
    3-1  actively involved in civic affairs as a board member of such worthy
    3-2  organizations as the American Red Cross, the United Way, and the
    3-3  March of Dimes; and
    3-4        WHEREAS, At home, she enjoys a happy and rewarding marriage
    3-5  with her husband, Harold Moore, and experienced the joy of becoming
    3-6  a grandmother in March 1995 with the birth of a child to her
    3-7  daughter, Yolanda, and son-in-law, Mike; and
    3-8        WHEREAS, Over the course of her remarkable career in hospital
    3-9  district administration, Lois Jean Moore has benefitted countless
   3-10  individuals in our state's largest city, and she indeed merits our
   3-11  highest praise and recognition on the occasion of her most recent
   3-12  accomplishment; now, therefore, be it
   3-13        RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 74th Texas
   3-14  Legislature hereby congratulate Lois Jean Moore on being named the
   3-15  co-recipient of the 1995 Healthcare Provider Award and extend to
   3-16  her sincere best wishes for continued happiness and success in the
   3-17  future; and, be it further
   3-18        RESOLVED, That an official copy of this resolution be
   3-19  prepared for Ms. Moore as an expression of highest regard by the
   3-20  Texas House of Representatives.