Baylor Medical Center at Garland

Baylor Medical Center at Garland, located in the heart of the Garland community, reflects the medical needs of this diverse community. A part of Garland for more than 40 years, the hospital offers advanced medical technology in heart and vascular care, breast health, women's services including neonatal intensive care, digestive disease, medical imaging, senior health care, sleep medicine, wound care, and physical medicine and rehabilitation. The 582 physicians who comprise Baylor Garland's medical staff serve the health care needs of citizens in Garland, Wylie, Richardson, Rowlett, Rockwall, Sachse, Mesquite and Murphy.

Highlights

Heart and Vascular Center
Baylor Garland offers a comprehensive cardiovascular services program through its Heart and Vascular Center, including diagnostic, interventional, surgical and rehabilitation services. In 2007, the Baylor Garland cardiovascular program received national recognition from VHA as a top center for treatment of heart attacks. The award honors health care organizations that have differentiated themselves around national performance standards by achieving performance at the 90 percent or above level on clinical core measures.

Sleep Center
The Sleep Center at Baylor Medical Center at Garland offers comprehensive care for sleep disorders, such as sleep apnea, restless legs syndrome, insomnia and narcolepsy as well as other conditions. Beginning with a sleep study, or polysomnogram, physicians identify different sleep stages and classify various sleep problems. Through diagnosis and treatment, physicians can control the nocturnal and daytime effects of sleep disturbances. Untreated sleep disorders potentially can cause or lead to exhaustion, impaired mental and job performance, depression, impotency, high blood pressure, heart problems, even congestive heart failure.

Women's Center
The Baylor Women's Center focuses on family-centered maternity care and gynecological services whether this is the first or last baby in a family. The staff of the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), a one-of-a-kind unit in Garland, provides care for premature infants as young as 28 weeks gestation when breathing and other development problems need to be addressed by a neonatologist. Parents can enroll in educational programs and classes, including preparation for childbirth, Caesarean birth, breastfeeding and a class for siblings. Nursing mothers will find extra assistance at the Simply Mom's boutique, where lactation consultants offer consultations for any breastfeeding issues.

Rehabilitation Services Baylor
Garland's 24-bed rehabilitation unit provides comprehensive acute medical rehabilitation services to persons affected by orthopaedic and neurological impairments as well as various other diagnoses. An individualized treatment plan is developed for each patient by a team of nursing and therapy staff members, who are led by a physiatrist, a physician who specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation. The goal is to help each patient return to the most independent, safe, productive and highest quality of life possible. Physical therapy, along with occupational and speech therapy services, are offered on the inpatient unit at a minumum of 3 hours per day. The outpatient therapy department continues a patient's progress, adding exercises that will allow the patient to return to pre-surgery activities. The outpatient therapy department provides an array of services from occupatioinal therapy and physical therapy to sports injury rehabilitation and speech therapy.

Breast Center
Baylor Breast Center's clinical staff offers screening and diagnostic digital mammography services, bone density testing, stereotactic breast biopsies and ultrasound-guided procedures. Faster and more efficient than traditional film mammography, digital mammography allows clinicians to obtain crisper images, which is especially important for younger women who have dense breast tissue or for women of any age with fibrocystic breasts. Digital mammograms can be magnified, rotated, darkened or lightened for better examination by a physician. The digital system automatically flags areas on the image that need closer scrutiny by the radiologist. The center's care team is comprised of certified mammography technologists, radiologists and breast surgeons on the medical staff of Baylor Garland.

Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine Center
The Baylor Wound and Hyperbaric Medicine Center concentrates on providing comprehensive, advanced treatment for chronic, non-healing wounds. The center's medical staff identifies the specific causes of a wound condition and implements a treatment plan tailored to heal this area. To provide optimal care, a team approach, using medical specialties including general and vascular surgeons, foot and ankle surgeons, infectious disease specialists, physiatrists and internists, collaborate to speed healing.

Community Programs

The conference center and community resource center, part of the Don and Ruth Buchholz Pavilion, are an outreach to the Garland community. The conference center is used by Baylor Garland to provide health screenings and community education experts. The community resource center provides consumer health information to patients, family members, visitors and the community.

Other community activities offer area residents free educational seminars at libraries and community centers in Garland, Rowlett, and Sachse, plus health fairs and screenings and bicycle safety rodeos for elementary school children. For fiscal year 2007, Baylor Health Care System will report $390 million* in community benefit, which includes providing care for charity patients and patients enrolled in government programs such as Medicare and Medicaid, as well as the unreimbursed costs of medical education, research and community programs.

Leadership

Jim Thaxton, president, Baylor Medical Center at Garland

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