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Houston
West
Chamber of
Commerce
Honors
HealthBridge
Children’s
Hospital
with Star
Award
February
19, 2007
The
Houston
West
Chamber of
Commerce
presented
HealthBridge
Children’s
Hospital
with the
coveted
Star Award
at the
chamber’s
annual
luncheon
on
Thursday,
February
8, 2007.
“We are
extremely
proud to
be
recognized
by the
Houston
West
Chamber as
both a
solid
business
and a good
corporate
citizen,”
said
Geoffrey
Swaby,
administrator
for
HealthBridge
Children’s
Hospital.
“This
award
represents
the
culmination
of a lot
of hard
work by
our
incredible
employees,
who
dedicate
themselves
every day
to making
our
patients’
lives a
little
brighter
and our
community
a little
better.”
The Star
Awards
celebration
was
created in
1998 to
highlight
local
companies
that
demonstrate
outstanding
achievement
on three
levels:
economic
growth,
contributions
to the
community,
and
industry
and
customer
recognition.
HealthBridge
won the
Star Award
honoring
businesses
with 26 to
150
employees.
In the
economic
growth
category,
The
HealthBridge
employee
count
reached
106 at the
end of
2005 – the
number the
hospital
had
projected
for the
end of
2006.
Gross
revenues
totaled
$16.5
million in
2005,
compared
to
projected
gross
revenues
of $19.1
million
for 2006.
HealthBridge
Children’s
Hospital
was an
active
community
contributor
on several
levels in
2006. The
hospital
contributed
money to
Children’s
Memorial
Hermann
Hospital’s
2006
fund-raising
campaign
and
Interfaith
of The
Woodlands,
and
volunteers
to Texas
Children’s
Hospital
for its
2006 Bad
Pants Open
benefiting
Texas
Children’s
Newborn
Center.
HealthBridge
also
provided
much-needed
medical
care, room
and board,
and other
support to
patients
and
families
affected
by
Hurricane
Katrina
and
Hurricane
Rita.
The
recognition
and
testimonials
provided
by the
patients
and
families
that
HealthBridge
serves
also
played an
important
role in
HealthBridge’s
achievement.
One woman,
whose
daughter
barely
survived a
diabetic
coma and
benefited
from
HealthBridge’s
rehabilitation
services,
wrote,
“…we were
extremely
sad on
leaving
the
wonderful
people who
helped us
so much in
so many
ways.
“Without
them, I
don’t
think
Marcella
and I
could have
made this
alone. The
staff
there
really
knows how
to touch
lives.”
In
addition
to the
Star
Award,
HealthBridge
also was
named one
of the
“Top 25
Specialty
Hospitals
in
Houston”
by the
Houston
Business
Journal.
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