title: Profiles in service (1986-1995). 1994 Foster G. McGaw Prize Winner: Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas, Texas.
abstract: Parkland Memorial Hospital, the 1994 Foster G. McGaw Prize winner, views itself as a sanctuary for its patients, and strives for excellence while maintaining its focus on the medical and social needs of its diverse Dallas community. How it balances its various objectives offers a variety of lessons on the centennial of the hospital's founding.
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authors.lastname: Hudson
mesh_terms: D001363:Awards and Prizes; D003151:Community Health Centers; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D006779:Hospitals, Public / Q000191:economics / Q000592:standards*; D006784:Hospitals, Teaching; D008489:Medical Indigency; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013781:Texas; D014481:United States