On Sept. 24, 2009, Baylor Health Care System announced gifts exceeding $20 million to benefit the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center. Donated by Sammons Enterprises, Inc. and the estate of founder Charles A. Sammons, these record-setting contributions will help build a new 450,000-square-foot outpatient cancer center (to open in spring of 2011) and a dedicated cancer hospital scheduled to open in 2013.
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As a teenager, Charles A. Sammons worked to help fund his sisters’ college educations. When both sisters were afflicted with breast cancer at a fairly young age, he again acted on their behalf. Their struggles personalized his lifelong support of Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas. In June 1955, the hospital installed a Theratron Cobalt 60-Beam Therapy Unit, the leading-edge technology of its day for treating cancer. The unit was the first of its kind in Dallas and among the first in the entire southwest. It was purchased with a $75,000 gift from Charles Sammons.
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Changes to 2010 medical benefits include a new prescription drug program that offers savings for employees and the System.

When a physician pulls out a prescription pad, no matter the medication, many of us think the same thing: ‘How much is this going to cost me?’ The high cost of prescription drugs has been a key focus of America’s ongoing debate over health care reform and a challenge that Baylor Health Care System is meeting head-on.
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FY10 goals reflect Baylor’s journey of excellence.

At the beginning of every fiscal year, Baylor introduces a new set of System goals. This year, as we have done for the last several years, we are focusing on our Circle of Care goals of People, Quality, Service and Finance.
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Two Baylor Health Care System breast imaging centers in Garland are building patient-centered care into all their services.

Lona Bryant, a patient and family advisor with Baylor Health Care System’s Office of Patient Centeredness, knows first hand about the importance of patient-centered care.
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A new employee rolls the halls of the intensive care unit (ICU) at Baylor Medical Center at Waxahachie. An offsite physician access robot, nicknamed BESSY by staff (Baylor Extra Specialist Seeing You), is part of a new technology called robotic telemedicine that only a handful of hospitals practice nationwide.
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