All Saints Health Foundation at Fort Worth Welcomes New Staff Member

Contact: Mary Johnson, (817) 922-7088 or Sunny Drenik, (817) 922-7100
Email: maryjohn@baylorhealth.edu or sunnydr@baylorhealth.edu

(FORT WORTH, Texas, September 17, 2007) - Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth announced today that Melanie Corcoran has joined the All Saints Health Foundation.

Corcoran will serve as major gifts officer for the Transplant Islet Cell Program for the All Saints Health Foundation. An extension of our growing transplantation program, this expansion of Baylor Research Institute onto the Baylor All Saints' campus will enable physicians on the medical staff to participate in clinical research studies investigating pancreatic islet cell transplants as a potential treatment for juvenile-onset (Type 1) diabetes and to conduct pioneering research in the field of diabetes care.

She comes to the All Saints Foundation from Dallas Summer Musicals, where she was director of development. Corcoran was previously employed for nine years with Amon Carter Museum, where she served as director of development from 2002 to 2006. "We are very pleased to have Melanie as a member of the All Saints Health Foundation staff," said Freddy Jones, president, All Saints Health Foundation. "The relationships that she has with the people in Fort Worth will be beneficial to our fundraising efforts."

She is a graduate of University of the South. In addition, Corcoran is associated with the Association of Fund Raising Executives, Fort Worth Chapter and Leadership Fort Worth.

All Saints Health Foundation exists to support the Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth and Baylor Medical Center at Southwest Fort Worth in serving all people through exemplary health care and education. In the fiscal 2006 year, the Foundation has raised more than $24 million dollars. For more information about the All Saints Health Foundation, please call 817-922-7707.

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 2006, Baylor Health Care System reported $406 million in community benefit 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 All Saints Medical Center or Baylor Health Care System.