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PHILANTHROPY NOTES
■ A heart for the Dallas community
BHCS Foundation is pleased to announce that
long-time supporters Gayle and Paul Stoffel have
recently contributed $500,000 to establish an
endowment fund in support of BHCS cardiology
initiatives. The fund will be known as the Gayle
and Paul Stoffel Endowed Fund in Cardiovascular
Research and Education. It will provide essential
funding for cardiovascular leadership, innovative
research, patient-centered programs, capital investments, and education.
“Gifts like these validate Baylor’s advanced
cardiology research and education programs.
We are now seeing a return on our investments
in the development of new and innovative therapies that are improving the lives of our patients
and the health of the community,” said Kevin
Wheelan, MD, chief of staff, Baylor Jack and
Jane Hamilton Heart and Vascular Hospital.
■ $1 million corporate grant supports

enhanced memory center at Baylor
Thanks to a $1 million grant from a large
Dallas-based corporation, Baylor is poised to
create a world-class center of excellence in the
diagnosis and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease
and dementia. Through the enhanced Memory
Center, patients and families navigating a diagnosis of dementia or Alzheimer’s disease will
have expanded treatment options and greater
social and emotional support. The Memory
Center will be located on the northwest corner
of Park Lane and Central Expressway, across
the street from NorthPark Center.

team,” said Mark Valentine, THHBP president.
“With this latest STS quality ranking, The Heart
Hospital Baylor Plano is one of only 14 programs
in the United States to hold a three-star ranking
in all three categories.”
■ Ballard book on STEEEP care

receives prestigious Shingo Award
Achieving STEEEP Health Care, the story
of Baylor Health Care System’s journey of improving quality, received the Shi ngo Research
and Professional Publication Award. David J.

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The $1 million corporate grant, combined
with an additional $1 million from BHCS
Foundation, officially launches an ambitious
effort to bring much-needed resources and
staffing to the Memory Center. Initially, these
resources will allow Baylor to double the number
of patients cared for annually. Additionally, these
funds will allow the Memory Center to greatly
reduce the diagnosis and treatment wait times.
Generous donor support will also enable a care
coordinator from the Alzheimer’s Association
to be located at the Memory Center to help
connect patients, families, and caregivers with
important social, financial, legal, residential, and
educational support. Long-term objectives of
the Memory Center include expanded research
and clinical trial programs.
“We are incredibly grateful for the extraordinary support and interest the Memory Center
has received to date. Through continued interest and support of the Memory Center,
donors will directly impact families struggling
with diagnoses of dementia,” said Rowland
K. Robinson, president of BHCS Foundation.
“We’re excited about the opportunity not
only to care for additional patients, but also
to provide an additional scope of services to
help navigate a lifelong journey with these
diseases.”
■ Pathology’s 10-person microscope

provides multiple benefits to Baylor
patients
Peter A. Dysert II, MD, chief of pathology and director of the pathology residency

Ballard, MD, MSPH, PhD, FACP, CMM, chief
quality officer for Baylor Scott & White Health
and president of the STEEEP Global Institute, is
the book’s editor.
In his book, Ballard offers strategies and
lessons in the areas of people, culture, and
processes that have contributed to the improvements in patient and operational outcomes at
Baylor. STEEEP is an acronym trademarked by
Baylor to communicate the six “aims” for improvement set forth by the Institute of Medicine
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program at BUMC, said he is certain of one
thing: the study of disease is too vast a
knowledge set for any single person to master. With the addition of a new 10-headed
microscope, funded by BHCS Foundation,
pathologists and pathology residents have
a new educational and diagnostic tool that
will further enhance training and patient
outcomes at BHCS.
The 10-headed scope is primarily used
for a daily case review conference that allows pathologists to review slides on challenging cases as a group. The microscope
also serves as a valuable teaching tool.
Pathology residents are not only able to sit
in on discussions between pathologists as
they review cases, but are able to simultaneously view the slide images in real time on a
60-inch, flat screen monitor, providing virtually the same effect of sitting at the scope
themselves.
“It is huge to bring together the experiences of 10 to 15 pathology experts at
one time—with a collective experience of
several hundred years—to provide more
accurate diagnoses for Baylor patients,
especially involving complex cases,” said
Dr. Dysert. “This 10-headed microscope is
the single biggest improvement, from my
vantage point, that has been made in our
practice of surgical pathology in the last 10
years.”
For information on how you can support
these or other initiatives at Baylor, please contact the Foundation at 214.820.3136.

safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and
patient centered.
“Achieving STEEEP Health Care is a compelling and comprehensive book on improving
quality,” said Troyen A. Brennan, MD, executive
vice president and chief medical officer at CVS
Caremark. “Baylor Health Care System’s commitment to better health care is unmatched,
and in David Ballard they found a person who
can not only lead change, but also capture and
characterize the key insights that will help the
rest of us get on the path to superb care.”

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