Detailing the unique dynamics of the North Texas healthcare arena, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council’s President/CEO Steve Love was interviewed by HealthcareDive, a new website devoted to national trends in healthcare. In the July 31 article “Tougher to get in than Harvard: The $100M Texas hospital where everyone wants to work,” penned by Judy Packer-Tursman, Love offered his insight about the substantial population growth in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex.



“There are many potential (healthcare) customers. Of Texas’s 28 million residents, about seven million live within about a 30-mile radius of Dallas,” said Love. “This North Texas region grows the city of Atlanta every five years.”

Packer-Tursman’s article detailed the recent opening of the small 100-bed Walnut Hill Medical Center in Dallas directly across the street from the 900-bed Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Dallas.

“Most DFW Hospital Council members are more traditional community hospitals taking Medicare and Medicaid, and running Level 1 or Level 2 trauma centers,” Love said. “Physician-owned and -led hospitals are more niche players, in my opinion, targeting certain types of surgery.”

Lance Lunsford of the Texas Hospital Association and healthcare economist John McCracken, Ph.D. were also quoted in the story. You can find the article here.