Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie
Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie is a not-for-profit, 69-bed hospital dedicated to providing technologically advanced medical care closer to home for residents of southern Dallas and Ellis counties. As Ellis County and the surrounding areas grow, Baylor Waxahachie continues to grow with the addition of new service lines, new facilities and expanded medical staff. Physicians with expertise in medical specialties such as ear, nose and throat; emergency medicine; family practice; gastroenterology; general surgery; obstetrics/gynecology; orthopaedics; pediatrics; plastic surgery; podiatry; and pulmonology as well as a hospitalist, recently joined the hospital’s medical staff.For the third consecutive year, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie has received Leadership Awards from VHA for clinical excellence in the areas of myocardial infarction (heart attack), congestive heart failure and surgical infection prevention. The awards are based on the latest set of measures that have been nationally accepted as indicators of quality. In addition, Baylor Waxahachie was a recipient of the 2007 Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award, presented by TMF Health Quality Institute, honoring Texas hospitals that perform quality initiatives aimed at improving outcomes in patient care. The hospital also was recently recognized by the American Nurse’s Association with a “Best Practices in Seasonal Influenza Immunization” award as part of a program designed to identify organizations that successfully increased influenza vaccination rates of their employees.
Highlights
Opens New Sleep CenterAccording to the National Sleep Foundation, one in six Americans gets less than six hours of sleep each night. For Ellis County residents who suffer from sleep disorders, help has arrived with the new sleep center at Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie. The center features two, 140-square-foot sleep rooms with queen-sized beds in a relaxing, soothing environment. Specially-trained technicians monitor the patient’s nocturnal physiology, movement and breathing habits using specially-designed equipment to determine which sleep disorder the patient may have. Some of the most common sleep disorders include sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, narcolepsy, insomnia and periodic limb movement disorders.
Pain Management Services
It is estimated that more than 30 million Americans suffer from some form of chronic pain. For these people, pain becomes a way of life. But for residents of Ellis County and surrounding areas who suffer from chronic pain, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie recently opened a new pain management center to provide a comprehensive multidisciplinary approach to pain management and relief. For each patient, the center develops an individualized treatment plan designed to identify and relieve the patient’s source of pain, improve their emotional well-being, minimize their suffering and help them return to a more productive life. Treatment usually involves a team of specialists including a physician, nurses, physical and occupational therapists, and a psychologist. The goal is to help patients achieve and maintain their quality of life by regaining their physical function, overcoming the associated emotional suffering and providing tools they can use to control their pain.
Baylor Imaging and Diagnostics Center at Red Oak
In 2006, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie opened Baylor Imaging and Diagnostics Center in Red Oak, an outpatient imaging center that offers advanced radiology services to the residents of Red Oak, one of the fastest growing communities in Ellis County. In addition to advanced radiology services, the new center was the first provider of digital mammography in Ellis County. Similar to an image taken with a digital camera, digital mammography provides an enhanced high-resolution image of the breast allowing radiologists’ to adjust the brightness and contrast or zoom in for a closer look. Unlike traditional mammograms, the images are ready in seconds so patients don’t have to wait for the film to be developed. The center also offers 16-slice computerized tomography (CT) scans, high field magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), bone density analysis, diagnostic ultrasound, X-ray, echocardiograms (EKG) and laboratory services.
Community Programs
Baylor Waxahachie is a strong supporter of the Hope Clinic, a faith-based outpatient health care clinic for the uninsured in Ellis County. Baylor Waxahachie makes an annual donation to the clinic and physicians on the hospital’s medical staff see patients at the clinic free of charge. At the Hope clinic’s inception, Baylor Waxahachie donated medical equipment and supplies as well as $30,000 in funding. In addition, Baylor Waxahachie actively participates in many community events to educate people about the importance of living a healthy lifestyle. 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.Leadership
Jay Fox, president, Baylor Medical Center at WaxahachieDirections, parking information and phone numbers
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*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 System's subsidiary, community, or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie or Baylor Health Care System.
Physicians are members of the medical staff at one of Baylor Health Care System's subsidiary, community, or affiliated medical centers and are neither employees nor agents of those medical centers, Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie or Baylor Health Care System.