Progress Notes

UMC & UMCP’s Employee Newsletter

UMC’s Quarterly Blood Drive is in Full Swing!

Dates: August 1 – 3 Locations and Sign-Up Links: BATC – IT Training Room (UMC Employees – Only a few spots left!) UMC Main Campus – McInturff Conference Center (Open…

EMS Receives Fifth Consecutive Mission: Lifeline® Recognition from the American Heart Association

A Cut Above UMC EMS received the American Heart Association’s (AHA) 2023 Mission: Lifeline EMS Gold Award for its commitment to offering rapid research-based care for the most severe forms…

UMC Leads in Innovative Hospital Security by Implementing ZeroEyes AI Software

A Modern Challenge Requiring a Modern Solution With gun-related violence rising in the United States, hospitals face new security challenges to keep their patients and employees safe. Just last year,…

UMC’s Magnet Designation Helps Build a Better Healthcare Environment for Staff and Patients

A Bird’s-Eye View on the Details of Healthcare UMC has consistently exhibited the practices and excellence necessary for over a decade to achieve the high bar of the ANCC’s Magnet…

Team UMC Working Together to Raise Money for the Children’s Hospital

A Series of Spring Miracles Spring is among the busiest times for Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) and UMC Foundation fundraising for the hospital, culminating in this year’s “Spring Miracles,” a…

Zero Employees and Zero Patients with COVID at UMC

From Then Until Now Thinking back now to the Winter of 2020, when hospitalizations were at their highest, it would have been hard to imagine a time when we might…

UMC Saves Lives with Water Safety Event at Lubbock’s Water Rampage

A Fun Environment for Teaching an Important Lesson Parked cars stretched from Water Rampage’s gates clear to the highway’s frontage road, each bringing a family, part of our shared community,…

Irene Torres’ Story – 45 Years with UMC

It was perfectly characteristic of interviewing a busy MICU nurse to be told immediately upon arriving and preparing to conduct Irene’s interview that I had “ten minutes.” As Irene and…

Scott O’Banion’s Story – 45 Years with UMC

A person becomes a pillar of an organization when they’ve given 45 years to it; they can sense the air of change, feel, viscerally, progress being made, and understand more…

Holly Hinckley’s Story – 45 Years with UMC

Nursing is an incredibly challenging profession, physically and emotionally, but as is with anything that requires great care and caution, it’s also a career that people often fall in love…

Sharon Dixon’s Story – 45 Years with UMC

Sharon drove down a quiet dirt road shouldered by cotton fields so characteristic of this part of West Texas. She wondered if she was going to the right place for her nursing interview, and it wasn’t until she came across a small sign that read “Lubbock General Hospital” that she realized she must be right.

Building Better Habits in 2023

In his astoundingly successful book Atomic Habits, author James Clear preaches what he practiced. His theory is simple: small changes, done over time, can lead to big results. The “atomic”…


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