Jay Fox
President
Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie

Jay Fox is president of Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie, a 69-bed hospital dedicated to providing technologically advanced medical care closer to home for residents of southern Dallas and Ellis Counties.

Baylor Waxahachie continues to expand its medical staff to include medical specialists and primary care physicians and is budgeted to spend $33.8 million over the next five years on new projects and campus improvements in response to its growing communities.

In 2005, Baylor Waxahachie expanded the emergency department, increasing the bed count to 15, and renovated the emergency triage area to improve efficiencies in patient care. This year, the hospital opened Baylor Imaging and Diagnostics Center at Red Oak and construction has been completed on Baylor Medical Plaza at Waxahachie to allow for expanded cardiology services and space for physician offices.

Fox has been with Baylor for 15 years. He previously served as executive director of Our Children's House (OCH) at Baylor in Dallas and as vice president of operations for Baylor Specialty Health Centers. Under his leadership, OCH planned a $13.6 million expansion of the facility to include additional patient beds and therapy space, an outpatient surgery center and a physician's clinic, scheduled to be completed in January 2007.

He is a member of the American College of Healthcare Executives and is immediate past president of the board of directors for the Children's Hospitals & Related Institutions of Texas. He is a 1999 graduate of Leadership Dallas, where he now serves as chair-elect of the board of directors for the alumni association. He is active in the Make-a-Wish Foundation and serves on the Citizen's Advisory Board for Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) as well as the board of directors for the Dallas Summer Musicals, the Next Generation of Philanthropists, and Special Care and Career Services. Currently, he serves as the 2007 gala chairman for Dallas Summer Musicals.

In 2006, Fox was a nominee for the Young Healthcare Executive of the Year Award and also was chosen as one of the Dallas Business Journal's "40-Under-40."

He earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Oklahoma and a Master of Business Administration degree from Baylor University.