Rockwall – March 14, 2007 – Mike Fatheree, Director of Lake Pointe’s Imaging Center in Rockwall, was recently ‘locked-up’ as part of the annual Muscular Dystrophy Association (MDA) Lock-up fundraising campaign.   

    Fatheree was picked up at the Imaging Center and taken straight to ‘jail’, where he quickly began working to make bail, or ‘raise money’ for the organization.  Although Fatheree’s supervisor was jokingly unavailable to aid his employee, word quickly spread throughout the hospital about his generous efforts on behalf of the MDA. 

    Jeff Patterson, Director of Business Development at Lake Pointe, soon received a call regarding Mr. Fatheree’s “imprisonment” and quickly responded with a donation of $825 from Lake Pointe Medical Center to MDA to help ‘spring’ the Lake Pointe employee.  “It is our pleasure to donate to a worthwhile organization such as the MDA.  We appreciate their mission to raise money and awareness for muscular dystrophy and its victims, and welcomed the opportunity to contribute,” stated Patterson.        

ABOUT LAKE POINTE MEDICAL CENTER

Lake Pointe Medical Center, part of Tenet Texas, is a 99-bed acute care hospital located at 6800 Scenic Drive in Rowlett.  Lake Pointe Medical Center has been serving the residents of East Texas and surrounding Dallas communities since 1987.  The hospital provides a wide spectrum of medical services, including an emergency department with Fast Track services, an intensive care unit, women's services, a Level II Neonatal Nursery, diagnostic imaging, eight operating rooms, physical therapy and telemetry.  Lake Pointe Medical Center also provides a number of specialty services, including cardiology and cardiac rehabilitation, vascular surgery, neurosurgery and neurology, orthopedics, gastroenterology, oncology, infectious disease, general surgery, ear nose and throat, pulmonary medicine, urology, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, women's services, and neonatal services.  The newly opened Lake Pointe Imaging Center in Rockwall also provides extended imaging services to the community.  Lake Pointe Medical Center has been named a Solucient Top 100 Hospital three times.  The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, the nation’s oldest and largest hospital accreditation agency.  To learn more about Lake Pointe Medical Center, visit www.lakepointemedical.com.