Dentist Michelle Morgan bought the old building in 2016 in the neighborhood where she grew up.
“The vision is to bring the building back to life but make it a class A medical facility,” she said. “I bring my profession and I also bring my love and obligation as a successful person back to my neighborhood.”
COVID-19 and other complications delayed progress but Morgan said she hoped to have the project completed in about a year.
She has attracted supporters, included retired nurse Barbara Thompson, who also grew up in the neighborhood.
“I really think that this building can be restored to what it used to be and even better simply because of all the innovation that’s going on now,” Thompson said.
‘Un-American.’ ‘Treasonous.’: North Texas leaders decry mob breach at U.S. Capitol
Republicans and Democrats alike condemned the chaos that paused congressional vote to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s win.
North Texas leaders condemned the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, calling it “shameful,” “un-American,” and “a disgraceful moment” in the country’s history.
Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson said he was “saddened and absolutely disgusted” when he saw a mob breach the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., setting off chaos that stopped a congressional vote to certify President-Elect Joe Biden’s win.
Lawmakers, including Vice President Mike Pence, were evacuated from Congress; police say one person was shot dead; National Guard troops were deployed; and D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered a 12-hour curfew starting at 6 p.m.
Last week, just as some of North Texas’ front-line healthcare workers got their first dose of relief via Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, their jobs got increasingly taxing. The number of hospital beds they’re tending are either filled to capacity or precariously close to it.
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New York Times tracking tool shows that ICU beds at City Hospital White Rock, Baylor University Medical Center, Methodist in Mansfield and Medical City Las Colinas are at 100% capacity. Methodist and Baylor in Iriving have one bed, Parkland and UT Southwestern have two beds each.
Children’s hospitals in both Dallas and Fort Worth are not at capacity.
Parkland investigating sock monkey gift after questions from employees
A hospital vice president distributed mugs with candy to eight employees. Some with a sock monkey picture were given to Black employees.
Commissioner John Wiley Price at a meeting March 19, 2020 in Dallas. (Ashley Landis/The Dallas Morning News)(Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)
Officials at Parkland Health & Hospital System are investigating an employee gift featuring a sock monkey cartoon after receiving complaints that it was offensive.
A photograph of a mug given as a gift to Black employees at Parkland Hospital. Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price criticized the gift.(John Wiley Price/submitted)