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Legacy: 50 Years of Loving Care, Texas Children?s Hospital, 1954? 2004,November 6,2006, Houston, Texas?Elisha Freeman Publishing is pleased to announce the publication of Legacy: 50 Years of Loving Care, Texas Children?s Hospital, 1954? 2004 by Betsy Parish.When Texas Children?s Hospital opened in the Texas Medical Center in Houston, Texas, on February 1, 1954, it was a 106-bed facility for specialized pediatric care. Within the following five decades it was to become a 639 licensed-bed, full-care pediatric center accredited with commendation by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations. Legacy tells the vivid and moving stories behind this remarkable evolution into one of the largest, full-care pediatric hospitals in the United States. Gleaned from hundreds of personalinterviews and oral histories, countless publications, and archival documents, this detailed narrative history reflects a multifaceted perspective. Highlighting the courage, commitment and compassion of the many dedicated individuals who contributed their time, their expertise, and their passion to health and loving care of children and their families, Betsy Parish presents an inspiring overview of the first50 years of Texas Children?s Hospital.Legacy is divided into three parts: the first presents the circumstances surrounding and the personalities involved with the inspiration, the founding, the administration, and the leadership of Texas Children?s Hospital, including the strategic inclusion of the first two physicians-inchief; the second features photographs taken at memorable moments during the hospital?s first five decades; and the third documents how the founders? dreams and the legacy of loving care came to be realized. That realization is illustrated in a series of historical profiles ofselected areas and services, each enveloped by the personal recollection of an experience within that particular area or service.Betsy Parish, a former newspaper columnist, is a fifth