CONTACT: Susan Hall
214.820.1817
susanh@baylorhealth.edu
Janeen Browning
469.814.2107
janeenbr@baylorhealth.edu
(PLANO, TEXAS – Feb. 3) Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano will offer free breast cancer risk assessments and education, heart health education, scoliosis and blood pressure screenings at Your Health This Month on Friday, February 20 from 7:30 to 10:30 a.m. at Baylor Plano, 4700 Alliance Blvd., in Conference Room A/B on the Garden Level. In addition to the free screenings, cholesterol and glucose screening will be available for $15. A free continental breakfast will also be provided. For more information or to register for this event please call 1.800.4BAYLOR or visit BaylorHealth.com.
Baylor Plano will offer the following events in the upcoming months:
All programs are held at Baylor Plano in Conference Room A/B Garden Level, unless otherwise noted. To register for a program, call 1.800.4BAYLOR (422.9567).
Weight Loss Surgery Informational Seminar
February 3 & 17, March 3, 19 & 31; April 16 & 26
6:30 p.m.
Nick Nicholson, M.D., bariatric surgeon, presents three surgical weight loss options.
Getting to the Heart of Sleep Issues
Thursday, February 5
12 to 1 p.m.
Tracie Hardin, sleep technologist, will discuss the link between heart disease and sleep issues.
Lunch provided.
Living Well With Cancer
Mondays, February 9, March 9 & April 13
6 to 7:30 p.m.
Diabetes Support Group
Thursdays, February 12, March 12 & April 13
6 to 7:30 p.m.
Saturday Mammography Clinic
Saturdays February 14 & 28; March 14 & 28; April 4 & 25
Appointments begin at 8:30 a.m.
Us Too!
Prostate Cancer Support Group
Tuesdays, February 24, March 24 & April 28
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Dinner provided.
Solutions to Chronic Pain
Wednesday, February 25
12 to 1 pm.
Jerry Lewis, M.D., pain management specialist on the Baylor Plano medical staff will discuss treatment options for chronic pain.
Lunch provided.
Get a Leg Up on Sciatic Nerve Pain
Thursday, March 5
12 to 1 p.m.
Jeremy Denning, M.D., neurosurgeon, will discuss the symptoms, such as radiating leg pain, and treatment options of sciatica.
Lunch provided.
Hone in on Hernias
Tuesday, March 17
12 to 1 p.m.
Nelson Littrell, M.D., general surgeon, will discuss the causes, signs, symptoms and treatment options of abdominal wall hernias, which may cause abdominal pain and acid reflux.
Lunch provided.
Your Health This Month
Friday, March 20
7:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Free colorectal cancer home kits, blood pressure screenings, nutrition and diabetes education, and sleep apnea assessments will be offered. Cholesterol and glucose testing will be offered for $15.
Diverticular Disease Seminar
Tuesday, April 7
12 to 1 p.m.
Abdominal pain could be diverticular disease. Presented by Shibu Oommen, M.D., gastroenterologist.
Abdominal Bleeding Seminar
Thursday, April 9
12 to 1 p.m.
Daryl Greebon, M.D., gynecologist, will discuss symptoms and treatment options for abdominal bleeding.
Your Health This Month
Friday, April 17
7:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Free diabetes and skin cancer prevention education and asthma, blood pressure and scoliosis screenings will be provided. Cholesterol and glucose testing will be offered for $15.
Look Good…Feel Better
Tuesday, April 21
6 to 8 p.m.
Diabetes Self Management Program
Classes are offered at various times.
To register call 469.814.6896.
About Baylor Plano
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano is a 128-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 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, sleep disorders, pain management, diabetes management and more. Baylor Plano offers patients access to digital imaging and is the first hospital 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. The hospital has won several quality awards including the Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award of Excellence and is designated a Pathway to Excellence™ healthcare organization by American Nurses Credentialing Center.
As part of Baylor Health Care System, Baylor Plano offers patients access to innovative treatments and clinical trials performed through Baylor Research Institute in such areas as oncology and cardiovascular services. The Baylor Plano campus is the home of THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano, the first dedicated heart hospital in Collin County. 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. For more information, visit www.baylorhealth.com.
For a physician referral, call toll free 1-800-4-BAYLOR or search now.
*Represents preliminary information that will be reported to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
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.