| Mission | Objectives | Research | Statistics |

In 1984, the Harrington Regional Medical Center at Amarillo, Inc. (HRMCI) was created to promote the continuing development of the Medical Center for the physical and economic well-being of the nearly one-million residents of the region who seek us out annually for health care, training, work, and a myriad of other reasons.
In addition to serving as caretaker of the Medical Center land, HRMCI helps to establish and support programs and facilities for patient care, research and education.
The result of HRMCI's efforts has been the formation of an alliance that now includes 27 facilities and agencies, located both within and outside of the Medical Center campus. These institutions are individually motivated yet jointly committed to providing quality, accessible health care for the region.

HRMCI Mission:

To promote, provide for and to assist in the establishment, support, and maintenance of programs and facilities that pertain to patient care, patient services, research and education.

HRMCI Objectives:

• To create opportunities to uncover new knowledge and new schools of thought. From these discoveries come unlimited applications (some of which we cannot imagine even today) for cost-effective patient care, unique interaction in research between medical and agricultural investigators and education for health care professionals.

• To strengthen collaborations by creating and assisting in institutional development. To bring together basic biological, chemical and physical sciences with the clinical sciences and medical care.

• To stimulate new research collaborations by assisting in recruiting talented professionals and support personnel who can work together for more than one institution.

• To provide a forum for exchanging ideas between the agricultural and research communities.

• To assist in technology transfer: from the laboratory bench, to the bedside, to the marketplace. With this, the science of medicine moves forward.

Research at the Medical Center

There are basic science research programs in the areas of immunology, immunotherapy, oncology, interferon studies, AIDS research, cellular biology, hematology and a bone marrow transplant program.
There are clinical research programs in the areas of cancer chemotherapy, psychiatry, neurology, obstetrics and gynecology, neonatology, premature infants, pharmacology, hypertension, pediatrics and behavioral science.
The Amarillo area supports a comprehensive tumor registry and one Institutional Review Board (IRB).
There are agricultural research programs in integrated crop production systems with and without irrigation; improved plant varieties, conservation tillage, insect and disease control and residue management; animal health, nutrition and stress related problems; and agricultural economics.

HRMCI Statistics

HRMCI
200 NW 7th Avenue
P.O. Box 51794
Amarillo, Texas 79159-1749
(806) 356-0488 * FAX (806) 356-8074
E-Mail: hrmci@c1ama.net