Making Baylor Health Care System Special

Improving health care quality in Texas and the Baylor Health Care System.

BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2001;14:34–35 According to a recent article, Texas is in the lowest quartile of states in its delivery of health care to patients >65 years of age (1). Physicians may wonder how these statistics came about and how Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) is trying to improve health care quality. This article begins by defining quality. It then discusses the performance measures and the...

History of the biomedical studies PhD program: a joint graduate program of the Baylor Health Care system and Baylor University.

On a sweltering summer morning, throngs of people filed into Jones Theatre at Baylor University in Waco for the graduate student orientation. One could look around and notice the diversity of not only the student population, but also the disciplines being represented. Many students had stepped off planes only hours prior, but even those who had been traveling for days could not contain their ex...

Journey to no preventable risk: the Baylor Health Care System patient safety experience.

The patient safety vision at Baylor Health Care System (BHCS) has 3 components: (1) achieving no preventable deaths, (2) ensuring no preventable injuries, and (3) seeking no preventable risk. These goals require strategic efforts in the categories of culture, processes, and technology. Culture focuses on tactics such as teamwork training and quality improvement education. Processes are measured...

Baylor Health Care System quality initiatives: a view from the HealthTexas Provider Network.

The history of organ transplantation in the Baylor Health Care System.

VOLUME 17, NUMBER 122 23 BUMC PROCEEDINGS 2004;17:23–34 Transplanting organs, replacing old worn-out organs with healthier ones, has long been a dream in medicine. Several attempts were made in 1901 in Vienna, where investigators tried to transplant kidneys in dogs, pigs, goats, and calves. The exercise turned out to be purely technical due to the lack of understanding of vascular surgical tech...