Baylor All Saints Medical Centers Mark 100th Anniversary
Community invited to attend a birthday celebration commemorating this milestone.
Contact: Mary Johnson, 817-922-7088 or Sunny Drenik, 817-922-7100Email: Maryjohn@baylorhealth.edu or Sunnydr@baylorhealth.edu
(FORT WORTH, Texas, October 27, 2006) - Baylor All Saints Medical Centers at Fort Worth will celebrate 100 years of service to the Fort Worth and surrounding communities. To recognize this major milestone, Baylor All Saints would like to invite the public to attend a birthday celebration on Wednesday, November 1, 2006, from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Atrium of the Martin Tower on the Baylor All Saints campus. Fort Worth City Councilmember Wendy Davis will speak, and Mayor Mike Moncrief will present Baylor All Saints with a Certificate of Recognition, as well as other state and local dignitaries.
"The tradition of caring that began so humbly 100 years ago continues today as we look forward to expanding our campus and clinical programs to meet the needs of our community," said Steven R. Newton, president of Baylor All Saints Medical Centers. "We are truly blessed to have a group of physicians, staff and volunteers at Baylor All Saints so deeply committed to doing an extraordinary job, one patient at a time."
Other activities will include a blood drive which will take place at Baylor All Saints and Baylor Southwest from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Father Fred Barber, rector of Trinity Episcopal Church, will perform a special Communion Service in honor of the 100th anniversary of Baylor All Saints. Trinity Episcopal is the church Maria Beggs attended over 100 years ago. Many of her Sunday school classmates formed the Comfort Band, which was instrumental in the founding of Baylor All Saints.
All Saints began serving the Fort Worth community on November 1, 1906 with 24 beds and an affiliated nursing school. In 1987, All Saints became an even greater medical asset with the opening of a second full-service hospital in Southwest Fort Worth, All Saints Cityview, thereby, extending health services to a rapidly growing area of the city. In 2002, All Saints proudly joined Baylor Health Care System.
Over the past century, Baylor All Saints has provided many medical "firsts" to the Tarrant County community, including:
- First hospital in Tarrant County, and one of only nine in Texas, to offer the Gamma Knife®* procedure to treat certain neurological conditions
- First hospital in Texas and third in the U. S. to offer a floor-mounted, flat panel interventional radiology suite for minimally invasive surgery
- First hospital in Tarrant County to perform liver and pancreas transplants
Recently, Baylor All Saints broke ground in 2006 on a new 170,000-square-foot, 92-bed women's hospital that will allow for expansion of existing traditional women's services, such as reproductive medicine, gynecological surgery, pelvic medicine, obstetrical services and a level III neonatal intensive care unit. In addition, comprehensive specialty services including genetic testing services, a comprehensive breast center, a urinary incontinence treatment center, a sexual dysfunction clinic and an aesthetic center will be offered. When complete in spring 2008, the new women's hospital and attached medical office building will provide Tarrant County women one location to receive wellness, diagnostics, screenings, and treatments.
The not-for-profit Baylor All Saints Medical Centers serve more than 100,000 people annually through two hospitals, numerous primary care physician centers and practices, a rehabilitation and fitness center, and a variety of medical specialties. Programs of excellence in cardiology, transplantation, neurosciences, oncology and women's services form the heart of the hospitals' services. All Saints joined Baylor Health Care System in January 2002. All Saints Health Foundation, a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization, raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor All Saints Medical Centers. For fiscal year 2005, Baylor Health Care System reported $314 million in community benefit to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
*Gamma Knife is owned by and leased from an affiliate of HEALTHSOUTH and is a service of Baylor All Saints Medical Center. The Gamma Knife is not a joint venture of HEALTHSOUTH and Baylor All Saints Medical Center. The physicians providing Gamma Knife services are independent physicians.