Parkland Memorial Hospital
| Parkland Memorial Hospital | |
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| Parkland Health & Hospital System | |
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| Geography | |
| Location | 5200 Harry Hines Boulevard, Dallas, Texas, U.S. |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | Public |
| Hospital type | General and Teaching |
| Affiliated university | UT Southwestern Medical Center |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | Level I Trauma Center |
| Beds | 862 |
| History | |
| Founded | 1894 |
| Links | |
| Website | Parklandhospital.com |
| Lists | Hospitals in U.S. |
Parkland Memorial Hospital is a hospital located in Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital.
The original hospital opened in 1894 in a wooden building on a 17-acre (6.9 ha) meadow located at Oak Lawn Avenue and Maple. The name Parkland came from the land on which the hospital was built, originally purchased by the city as a park. A brick building (the first hospital brick building erected in Texas, now owned by the Trammell Crow Company) replaced the wooden facility in 1913.
In 1954, Parkland moved to 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard about a mile from its original site.
On August 20, 2015, at 6 a.m., the new emergency room officially opened and began accepting patients, and other staff members and patients were officially transferred throughout the next few days, from 5201 Harry Hines Boulevard to the new hospital located across the street at 5200 Harry Hines Boulevard. The new hospital welcomed its first birth, a boy who arrived by Caesarean section, at 9:40 a.m.
Parkland is best known as the hospital where three individuals associated with the assassination of John F. Kennedy either died or were pronounced dead: John F. Kennedy himself, his assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, and Jack Ruby, who killed Oswald. The 2013 film Parkland dramatizes the deaths of Kennedy and Oswald in the hospital.
After he was shot on November 22, 1963, President Kennedy was rushed to Parkland, where he was pronounced dead at 1 p.m. in Trauma Room 1. At the same time, Texas Governor John Connally, wounded in the same shooting, was treated in Trauma Room 2, and survived.
Two days after the assassination, Oswald was rushed to Parkland after being shot in the abdomen by Ruby and died in operating room #5 after over 90 minutes of surgery. Ruby died on January 3, 1967 in the same emergency room, from a pulmonary embolism associated with lung cancer.
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