Collin County Adult Clinic

Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano Donates $5,000 to Collin County Adult Clinic

(PLANO, TEXAS March 2, 2011) ­ Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano President Jerri Garison recently presented a representative of the Collin County Adult Clinic with a $5,000 donation to help support the medical needs of the underserved population in the Plano area.  On-hand to receive the donation on behalf of the Collin County Adult Clinic was John Ernst, Executive Director, Collin County Adult Clinic.  

For the past nine years, Collin County Adult Clinic has served the indigent and uninsured adult residents of Collin County with primary medical care. Since 2005, the Clinic has operated as a 501 (c)(3) corporation to help ensure the funds provided to the Clinic treat the most people possible. The Clinic provides on average $285 hard dollar value per patient visit. Because the clinic’s business model is based upon 100% volunteer support, the cash cost to provide this $285 is only $65. Baylor Plano’s donation of $5,000 will leverage $30,000 in care for the indigent and uninsured of Collin County. 

Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano is a 112-bed acute care hospital committed to serving North Texas residents with personalized care and advanced technology on a beautiful campus with hotel-like amenities and all private rooms. Services at the not-for-profit, fully-accredited facility include treatment for advanced spine deformities at the Baylor Scoliosis Center, neurosciences, orthopaedics, medical and radiation oncology, surgical weight loss, women’s services, gynecology, urology, gastroenterology, pulmonary medicine, sleep disorders, pain management, diabetes management and more. Patients have access to digital imaging onsite at Baylor Plano and at the Baylor Diagnostic Imaging Center at Craig Ranch, an outpatient department of Baylor Plano. The hospital is the first in North Dallas and Collin County to offer minimally invasive robotic surgery for gynecology and prostate procedures through the FDA-approved da Vinci® S Surgical System.  Baylor Plano is a 2010 recipient of the Texas Award for Performance Excellence and houses and Accredited Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons Commissions on Cancer.  Jerri Garison is president of Baylor Plano. For more information, or a physician referral, call toll free 1-800-4-BAYLOR or log onto www.BaylorHealth.com/Plano. 

About Baylor Health Care System

Baylor Health Care System is a faith-based supporting organization providing services to a network of acute care hospitals and related health care entities that provide patient care, medical education, research and community service. Baylor recorded more than 2.6 million patient encounters, $3.8 billion in total operating revenue, $4.4 billion in total assets and $513.5 million in community benefit in fiscal year 2010.  Baylor’s network of more than 260 access points includes 26 owned/operated/ ventured/affiliated hospitals, 23 joint ventured ambulatory surgical centers, 50 satellite outpatient locations, four senior centers and 156 HealthTexas physician clinics.  

Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System¹s subsidiary, community or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano or Baylor Health Care System.