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Built in 1954 as the premier public healthcare facility in the Dallas, Texas region, Parkland Hospital had become severely overcrowded and functionally outdated by the turn of the new century. In November 2008, the voters of Dallas County were asked to approve a $747 million bond toward the construction of a new Parkland with a final price tag of about $1.3 billion. Bond elections are not always popular with the public, but this one passed with 82 percent of the vote – an overwhelming expression of hope for the future health of the community and its people. One of the largest public hospitals in the nation, and the largest public healthcare project in the country ever to be built in one phase , the new Parkland Hospital opened to patient... More