Welcome back. This weekend there is
a grand opening of what is going to
be the first academic Medical Center
specifically serving southern Dallas County.
The UT Southwestern Medical Center
at Redbird is located on Camp Wisdom,
right where Hwy. 67 and I20 meet.
And joining us to talk more about
this now is Shawna Nesbitt,
the doctor and Vice President
and chief diversity,
equity and Inclusion Officer at
UT Southwestern Medical Center.
Thank you so much for being here
with us this afternoon.
This is big news for people
in that community.
Absolutely. Thank you,
Jason for featuring our story.
We are so excited to be opening the
UT Southwestern Clinic at Redbird.
It represents the opportunity that
UT Southwestern, an amazing Medical
Center and world class institution,
will have to engage more closely
with the southern sector of Dallas
County and really make our services,
our expertise more available to
people who live in that area.
That is,
I was going to say if you look around
right now down in that area, you don't
see other services like this available.
That's right. We are the first to come
to that area to offer preventive care,
exciting opportunities
such as culinary medicine,
which is soon to come,
our primary care providers,
our cardiologist team as well as
imaging lab facilities to have labs
done as well as infusion services
for those who have cancer and other
illnesses that require infusion
services right in the midst of.
A very close location to your
home that's easy to access now as
you've decided to be there. I'm
sorry there's a weird delay here.
I'm sorry I keep cutting you
off there as it is right now.
Some of these people who would,
you know, access this particular center
who might live nearby, you know,
they've got that added barrier
maybe of having to drive in and
head somewhere else to go get care.
And when we especially start talking
about things like preventative
medicine and checkups and Wellness
checkups that catch so many problems.
Before they become bigger problems,
that impediment can really be the
difference between health and illness,
possibly even life and death.
If someone waits long enough,
wouldn't you agree?
That's exactly right, Jason.
We've seen that be the case.
And if we look at the health
disparities in that particular area
of Dallas is clear that preventive
care is needed and it's needs to be
accessible to people who live close by.
And so the beautiful part of this is that.
We have access to the bus routes.
Patients can come to this location,
get preventive care, have labs,
have MRI's and CT scans,
as well as other services that we can
immediately offer to them to help them,
along with decreasing that health
disparity that we are so well aware of.
All right? So in cases like this, it's
always great to have resources out there,
but it's no good if nobody knows about it.
So that's why we're doing this here.
And I want you to tell us about what's
going on tomorrow, the event tomorrow,
yes, we are so excited
to be in the community.
So tomorrow is our opening day
and it's a preview full of family
fun and opportunity to view
the campus that we have there,
to see the facilities,
to become familiar with what we offer
and also also to have some snacks,
healthy snacks that is.
And also just enjoy yourself in
the comforts of our new facility,
meet some of our team.
Members, some of the physicians who
will take care of patients there as well.
It will be a fantastic opportunity.
We look forward to seeing you there.
And we figured that the snacks
were gonna have to be healthy.
We're talking about the UT Southwestern
Medical Center there at Redbird.
Dr Shawna Nesbitt,
vice President and chief diversity
equity and Inclusion Officer at
UT Southwestern Medical Center,
thank you so much for being on
with us here today.
Really appreciate it.
Thank you, Jason.
All right, over to you, Mario.