Baylor Health Care System

Founded in 1964 as Memorial Hospital of Garland, Baylor Medical Center at Garland is a fully accredited, 263 licensed bed medical center serving the residents of Garland, Texas, and the neighboring communities of Wylie, Richardson, Rowlett, Rockwall, Sachse, Mesquite and Murphy.

Baylor Garland provides advanced medical care in a healing, supportive environment. While particularly recognized for comprehensive services in heart and vascular care, diagnostic and interventional imaging, women’s services, neonatal intensive care, sleep medicine, digestive disease, family medicine, pain management, wound care and physical medicine and rehabilitation, Baylor Garland has 570 physicians on its medical staff representing an inclusive range of specialties.

Highlights

Heart and Vascular Center

Through its Heart and Vascular Center, Baylor Garland offers a comprehensive cardiovascular services program, including diagnostic, interventional, surgical and rehabilitation services. The Baylor Garland cardiovascular program recently 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 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 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 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 occupational 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

As part of its Christian ministry of healing, community service is a cornerstone of Baylor Garland’s mission. From offering clinically based programs such as health screenings and support groups to building relationships with nonprofit organizations, Baylor Garland is committed to making life better for the residents of North Texas. For fiscal year 2008, Baylor Health Care System will report $429.5 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.

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