Friday, June 19, 2009

Tarrant County Hospital Takes Top Quality Award in Texas

PR Newswire
June 17, 2009

Quality Texas Foundation Names 2009 Recipient of the Texas Award for Performance Excellence

GRAPEVINE, Texas, June 17 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine is the 2009 recipient for the Texas Award for Performance Excellence (TAPE). The hospital received this honor from The Quality Texas Foundation, a non-profit Texas corporation that administers the Texas Award for Performance Excellence.

Patterned after the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award criteria and process, the Texas Award for Performance Excellence is an annual recognition of Texas organizations that have achieved performance excellence and applied outstanding quality principles in their day-to-day operations. The award is presented to organizations that serve as role models for quality, customer satisfaction, and performance excellence in the state of Texas.

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Tarrant County cities offer emergency-weather systems to alert residents

By Elizabeth Zavala / Star Telegram
June 11, 2009

As severe thunderstorms approached Fort Worth on Wednesday night, sirens blared, but it’s likely not everyone could hear them.

To get the word out to those who don’t hear outdoor warnings or radio or television broadcasts, a number of Tarrant County cities are offering systems that will alert residents by phone, text messaging and e-mail to bad weather. Residents can sign up for the free alerts on their city’s Web site.


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Tarrant County task force works on stimulus funds

BY Leslie Wimmer / Fort Worth Business Press
June 1, 2009

A number of Tarrant County organizations have come together on a task force to work on both receiving and spending funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment act, more commonly known as the federal stimulus package, in February. The act aims to move federal money into state and city governments and community organizations to fund projects that will create jobs and have a positive economic development effect.


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Upscale apartment developer plans Tarrant project

By SANDRA BAKER / Star Telegram
June 18, 2009

Gables Residential, an Atlanta-based developer of apartment communities with several in downtown and uptown Dallas, is expanding in Tarrant County with a complex at Presidio Junction in far north Fort Worth.

Construction has begun on 348 apartments in a gated community west of Interstate 35W and north of North Tarrant Parkway. The community will include a clubhouse, business and fitness centers, a pool and a dog park. Leasing is expected to begin this summer.

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