Le Parkland Memorial Hospital est un hôpital situé à Dallas, Texas, États-Unis. C'est le principal hôpital du Parkland Health & Hospital System (en) et il sert d'hôpital public du comté de Dallas. L'hôpital est lié à l’University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.
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Parkland Memorial Hospital is a public hospital located in Dallas, Texas. It is the main hospital of the Parkland Health & Hospital System and serves as Dallas County's public hospital. It is located within the Southwestern Medical District. The hospital is staffed by the faculty, residents, and medical students of UT Southwestern Medical Center. Parkland Hospital was first established on Maple Avenue in 1894. In 1954, the hospital relocated to a second campus on Harry Hines Boulevard. A third facility, located across the street from the second site, opened in 2015 and remains the current location as of 2025. The second campus was demolished between 2024 and 2025. The Parkland Medical District continues to provide services and medical education to Dallas County.
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The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center is a public academic health science center in Dallas, Texas. With approximately 23,000 employees, more than 3,000 full-time faculty, and nearly 4 million outpatient visits per year, UT Southwestern is the largest medical school in the University of Texas System and the State of Texas.
UT Southwestern's operating budget in 2021 was more than US$4.1 billion, and is the largest medical institution in the Dallas–Fort Worth Metroplex, annually training about 3,800 medical, graduate, and health professions students, residents, and postdoctoral fellows. UT Southwestern Research Programs amounted to US$634.9 million in 2022.
UT Southwestern's faculty also provide services at Scottish Rite for Children, VA North Texas Health Care System, and other affiliated hospitals and community clinics in the North Texas region. Faculty and residents provide care in more than 80 specialties to more than 100,000 hospitalized patients, more than 360,000 emergency room cases, and oversee nearly 4 million outpatient visits a year, including more than US$106.7 million in unreimbursed clinical services annually.
Through the major hospitals affiliated with UT Southwestern in the city of Dallas, the medical center also has a large presence throughout North Texas, including the cities of Coppell, Fort Worth, Frisco, Irving, and Plano.
UT Southwestern in Dallas has the largest medical residency program in the United States. In 2016, UT Southwestern began providing additional care through Southwestern Health Resources, a network combining the systems of Texas Health Resources and UT Southwestern. The network comprises 31 hospitals, 300 clinics, and more than 3,000 physicians and caregivers.
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Children's Medical Center Dallas is the flagship facility of Children's Health, a nationally ranked pediatric acute care teaching hospital located in Southwestern Medical District, Dallas, Texas, US. The hospital has 496 pediatric beds and is affiliated with the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School. It provides comprehensive pediatric specialties and subspecialties to infants, children, teens and young adults aged 0–21 throughout Texas and surrounding regions. It sometimes treats adults who require pediatric care as well. It has an ACS designated level 1 pediatric trauma center, one of five in Texas. The hospital also has affiliations with the adjacent Parkland Memorial Hospital.
Children's Medical Center Dallas is the main hospital campus of Children's Health, the only academic healthcare system in Dallas-Fort Worth dedicated solely to the comprehensive care of children from birth to age 21. Children's Health started with just the Dallas location, but has grown to include Children's Medical Center Plano as well as several other pediatric specialty, primary care and urgent care centers located throughout North Texas. It is one of the largest pediatric hospitals in the US.
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Medical/Market Center station is a Trinity Railway Express commuter rail station in Dallas, Texas. The station is located in the Southwestern Medical District near the intersection of Interstate 35E and Medical District Drive. The station serves the Dallas Market Center and the facilities in the Medical District, including Parkland Memorial Hospital, Children's Medical Center Dallas, and the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center.
As of May 2025, the station has the lowest Saturday ridership of all TRE stations, with an average of 101 riders.
The station opened on December 30, 1996.
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Southwestern Medical District/Parkland station is a DART rail station in the Southwestern Medical District of Dallas, Texas. It serves the Green Line and Orange Line, and it also serves as a transfer center for nine bus routes.
The station is directly adjacent to Parkland Memorial Hospital. Shuttle routes at the station connect to UT Southwestern Medical Center and Children's Medical Center.
The station opened as part of the Green Line's expansion in December 2010.
Histoire
Cet hôpital est surtout connu comme l'hôpital où trois personnes liées à l'assassinat de John F. Kennedy sont mortes : John Fitzgerald Kennedy après son transfert, le 22 novembre 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald le 24 novembre, et Jack Ruby, qui a tué Oswald, mort le 3 janvier 1967.
Cinéma
Le film Parkland de Peter Landesman (2013), avec notamment Zac Efron, Jacki Weaver et Paul Giamatti, retrace les évènements qui se sont déroulés alors aux urgences de l'hôpital.