2012 Community Highlights
Having a healthy body, mind, and spirit is
important. In 2013, Methodist Mansfield
Medical Center hosted and sponsored
a variety of events to motivate people
toward healthy lifestyles and help improve
our communities, including:
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Run with Heart half marathon, 5K,
and one-mile fun run
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Mommy MD women’s health event
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Multiple run/walk events
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City health fairs and lunch and
learn events
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City of Mansfield Hometown
Holiday Parade
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Methodist Mansfield ISD 5K Dash
For Cash.
The difference
starts here
These initiatives are making a healthier community
2013 Co unity
Highlights
Emily Holland, pictured with Mansfield ISD
Superintendent JimVaszauskas, EdD, sits
at the console of the da Vinci
®
Surgical
System robot that she named ROSS, short
for Robotically Operated Surgical Assistant.
Methodist Mansfield, with the help of
medical professionals such as Alan
Taylor, MD (left), and electrocardiogram
(EKG) technician Herman Jamie, offered
sports physicals and EKGs to Mansfield
ISD student athletes.
To your
health
Pre-K students from Bonham Early Education Center, along
with Grand Prairie ISD officials and Methodist Mansfield
representatives, display safety bags, which were given to
every teacher in the district to help keep children safe.
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Medical support for local athletes.
Methodist Mansfield Medical
Center provides echocardiograms, sports physicals, health education,
and team physicians for school athletes in the Mansfield and
Midlothian ISDs.
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First-aid medical teams.
In partnership with Tarrant County’s
Susan G. Komen
®
for the Cure, Methodist provides physicians
and nurses for the medical team at the annual Race for the Cure.
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Saturday Mammos.
These events create a comfortable, spa-like
atmosphere for women to get their annual mammograms.
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Mansfield ISD Wellness Clinic.
This innovative effort by the school
district, its board of trustees, and Methodist Mansfield offers district
employees and their dependents affordable health care. The clinic
will help improve employees' health while reducing absenteeism.
Methodist Mansfield also supports these community endeavors: Big
League Dreams Sports Park; Carter Blood Care; local Rotary, Kiwanis,
and Lions clubs; Mansfield Cares; Mansfield Women’s Club; March of
Dimes; Meredith Hatch Foundation; Mission Arlington; National Night
Out Against Crime; Tarrant County American Heart Association Heart
Walk; Tarrant County Medical Society; United Way; and others.
We also opened our doors to programs like Leadership Arlington,
Grand Prairie, Mansfield, and Midlothian; Shattered Dreams, which helps
promote teen awareness about the dangers of drinking and texting
while driving; and nursing students from four universities and numerous
high schools.
