Baylor Health Care System

Baylor Medical Center at Irving is dedicated to providing the people of Irving and the surrounding communities with advanced, quality health care coupled with a commitment to service excellence. The not-for-profit, full-service hospital offers advanced health care services in cardiovascular, diagnostic imaging, digestive disorders, physical medicine and rehabilitation, oncology treatment, orthopaedic surgery and emergency medicine. Centrally located on State Highway 183, Baylor Irving offers the depth of medical services often found in larger medical facilities.

Highlights

Weight Management and Surgery Program

A multidisciplinary approach to weight loss offers patients the support and guidance of physicians, nurses, dietitians, psychologists, and program and insurance coordinators before, during and after a laparoscopic surgical procedure. Baylor offers two Food and Drug Administration-approved procedures: laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) and laparoscopic adjustable gastric band (Lap-Band^® surgery), which reduce the size of the stomach and limit food intake.

Minimally Invase Joint Replacement Surgery

Recovery from joint replacement surgery once was a long and slow process. Baylor Irving offers minimally invasive total joint replacement surgery for hips and knees, using techniques that enable most recipients to begin walking within 24-hours after surgery. Pre-operative educational classes teach the patient and their care provider the important post-operative steps to help achieve a quick and positive recovery. In most cases, the healing process is six weeks.

Arrhythmia Center

The Arrhythmia Center brings together cardiovascular expertise and medical technology to treat irregular cardiac rhythms that affect the heart's ability to pump blood. Electrophysiology studies performed in the electrophysiology suite determine the location and cause of the arrhythmia. Treatments offered include cardiac resynchronization therapy, catheter ablation, pacemakers and implanted cardioverter defibrillators. Baylor Irving is among the first hospitals to use stereotaxis technology to treat chronic arrhythmias. This technology precisely locates the irregular heartbeat or arrhythmia inside a beating heart, allowing cardiologists to treat the arrhythmia, and potentially freeing patients from life-long medication use.

Sleep Center

More than 70 million Americans have difficulty falling and staying asleep, according to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. The long-term effects of untreated sleep disorders can include exhaustion, impaired mental and job performance, depression, impotency, high blood pressure, heart problems, congestive heart failure and potentially, even death. Through diagnosis and treatment at the Baylor Irving Sleep Center, physicians can control the nocturnal and daytime effects of sleep disturbances.

Cancer Center

Both medical oncologists and radiation oncologists serve patients at Baylor Irving's Cancer Center, a comprehensive cancer diagnosis and treatment facility. Advanced treatment options at Baylor Irving help doctors target tumors with greater accuracy, increasing the odds of beating cancer. Intensity modulated radiation therapy avoids damaging healthy tissues surrounding the tumor while delivering a higher dose of radiation through multiple radiation beams. For women with breast cancer, partial breast radiation allows them to have two treatments daily for one week, greatly reducing treatment time. For others in cancer treatment, physicians may prescribe traditional chemotherapy with targeted cancer therapies such as antibodies directed at certain proteins to get a faster start at beating the disease. In addition to the cancer center, the hospital has a 21-bed inpatient oncology unit.

Digital Mammography

Like a digital camera, which allows the user to easily improve a photo without retaking it, digital mammography allows radiologists to manipulate a woman's mammogram to better detect tiny abnormalities. Radiologists can adjust the brightness and contrast, plus zoom in for a closer look. Available at the Baylor Health Center at Irving Coppell, digital mammograms are most useful for women under age 50, who have dense breasts and who are pre-or peri-menopausal.

64-Slice CT Scanner

The 64-slice computerized tomography (CT) scanner generates 64 images, or slices, per rotation, capturing images of the moving heart within five heart beats. These credit-card-thin "slices" become 3-dimensional views that aid cardiologists in detecting early heart disease. Since coronary heart disease is the number one killer of men and women in the United States, the 64-slice CT represents a major advancement in cardiac testing.

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