Portable Inflatable Surge Capacity Unit

Harris Methodist Hospitals and Texas Health Resources Unveil the First Portable Inflatable Surge Capacity Unit in the Nation 

FORT WORTH, Texas, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Internet, Global

Positioning Systems (GPS) and Humvees are examples of military tools and

technology transitioned from the military world that now benefit civilian

life. The military's famous portable surge hospitals, or MASH units, are

making a similar debut. Harris Methodist Fort Worth Hospital (HMFW) and

Harris Methodist Northwest Hospital (HMNW), part of the Texas Health

Resources System (THR), will be the first hospitals in the nation to

privately own a non- military inflatable, portable surge capacity unit.

Designed to supplement an existing hospital in the case of an emergency,

this civilian portable surge capacity unit will be used exclusively for

emergency needs such as: mass casualty events, quarantining patients with

an infectious agent or communicable disease, bioterrorism or terrorist

attack or a pandemic flu outbreak, an issue recently gaining public and

medical community attention.

    On December 15 at 2 p.m., join Congresswoman Kay Granger, Harris

Methodist Fort Worth Hospital, Harris Methodist Northwest Hospital and

Texas Health Resources as we unveil this gift to the community.(1)