Baylor Health Care System Names Scott Peek as President of Baylor Specialty Health Centers

Contact: Ashley Howland, 214-820-7540
Email: ashlehow@baylorhealth.edu

(DALLAS, Aug. 22, 2006)-Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) officials announced today that Scott Peek has been named as president of Baylor Specialty Health Centers.

As president, Peek's responsibilities will include overseeing Baylor Specialty Hospital in Dallas, an inpatient hospital that cares for chronically ill patients who need additional medical care before returning home, and the hospital's satellite locations in Garland and Irving. In addition, Peek will oversee Our Children's House (OCH) at Baylor, a licensed pediatric hospital that specializes in the treatment of children up to 18 years old with developmental or birth disorders, traumatic injury or severe illness. Peek will also manage OCH's seven outpatient centers located in Irving, Allen, Coppell, Dallas, Frisco, Grapevine, Waxahachie and the Rockwall facility, which is scheduled to open in 2007.

Since 2003, Peek served as vice president of Baylor Medical Center at Garland, where he oversaw clinical departments such as heart and vascular services, physical medicine and radiology, as well as non-clinical support departments including access services and food services. Peek will continue to serve on BHCS' Service Excellence Council and Corporate Compliance Committee.

Prior to joining Baylor Garland, Peek was a financial analyst at Richardson Regional Medical Center and before that, at the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand where he represented many health care clients.

Peek received his bachelor's degree from Texas A&M University and obtained a Master of Business Administration degree and a Master of Science in Healthcare Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

In the community, Peek has been active in Young Life in the Lake Highlands community since 1997 as a volunteer leader for junior high and high school students and as a committee member of Friends of Young Life.

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