Baylor Health Care System Hosts For Women, For LifeT Event

Event Focuses on Hot Health Issues for Women

(DALLAS, TEXAS – Jan. 17, 2008) – On Saturday morning, Jan. 26 women throughout North Texas can learn more about ways to improve their health through Baylor Health Care System's annual For Women, For LifeT event. The following six Baylor medical centers will host a variety of seminars and screenings:

• Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas
• Baylor All Saints Medical Center at Fort Worth
• Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano
• Baylor Regional Medical Center at Grapevine
• Baylor Medical Center at Irving
• Baylor Medical Center at Garland

The event is free but participants must register. To register plus find a list of seminars, health screenings and the schedule of events offered at each Baylor medical center, visit the links above or call 1-800-4BAYLOR.

Each Baylor medical center offers a unique blend of screenings, health seminars and opportunities to talk with health professionals. Health screenings and seminars focus on women and cancer, heart disease risk among women, urogynecological issues and solutions, orthopedic injuries, osteoporosis, facts about maintaining a healthy diet, hormone replacement therapy, how stress affects the body, and the importance of exercise.

Baylor Health Care System is a network of hospitals, primary care and specialty care centers, rehabilitation clinics, affiliated ambulatory surgery centers and the Baylor Research Institute. One of the largest private-sector employers in Dallas/Fort Worth, Baylor employs more than 16,000 people and has more than 2,700 physicians on its medical staffs. For fiscal year 2007, the faith-based Baylor Health Care System reported $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 cost of medical education, research and community programs.