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The good you do
An update on Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Marble Falls.
xceptional care doesn’t come about
by chance. The health care provided
at Baylor Scott & White is a direct
result of the compassion and generosity of
1,300+
7,200+
Newborn
Admissions
Surgeries
people like you. You have made an impact on
the lives of patients and families throughout the
Hill Country.
62,700+
We are pleased to show how your
Emergency
Department
Visits
generous investment has helped thousands of
patients not only get well, but Get Better.
The right care at the right time
60% of nurses
have earned
advanced degrees
or certifications
In recent years, Jim and Shirley Jorden
have watched as the population in and around
Marble Falls has exploded. But it wasn’t that
850+
long ago that the couple said goodbye to many
Hospital & Clinic
Employees
25+
friends who moved back to larger cities with
Medical Specialties
easier access to medical facilities.
“Before Baylor Scott & White was here, you
had to go either by ambulance or by helicopter
to a facility in Austin if you had any sort of major
295,900+
medical issue,” Mr. Jorden says. “Now we have
wonderful facilities and amazing staff who care
for you. We also have the door wide open to
the rest of this large, efficient, effective medical
Outpatient
Visits
8,500+
Adult Admissions
system. It makes my senior years a lot more
relaxed knowing that we have great medical
support here.”
Data: since the 2015 opening of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Marble Falls
Patient Profile: Ryan Schnitzler
For almost two years, Ryan Schnitzler
lived with severe abdominal pain due to
what had been diagnosed as an ulcer.
Women in
Philanthropy
Ryan had answers for his years of pain:
Renal Cell Carcinoma.
Surgeons successfully removed the
Communities Connected
It wasn’t until he visited Baylor Scott tumor, though its location near the renal brings together women in
& White Specialty Clinic in Horseshoe artery made the operation difficult. Still our communities to continue
Bay that he finally got the answers that in its early stages, the cancer had not yet a local legacy of support
ultimately saved his life. advanced into Ryan’s bloodstream. With for quality health care by
regular clinic visits, Ryan plans to stay providing financial resources
cancer-free. to Baylor Scott & White Health
“I was driving home one day and was
just in a lot of pain,” Ryan says. “I stopped
by the clinic to get looked over, thinking it
“They saved my life,” Ryan says.
in the Hill Country Region.
“So often this type of cancer isn’t Individual gifts of $500 will be
diagnosed until the later stages when combined for greater impact
Physician Assistant Rosemary Farrell sent it’s almost too late for treatment. I have of giving.
him straight to the emergency room at no doubt that if they hadn’t ordered Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - the testing and diagnosed it so quickly, Interested in joining?
Marble Falls for a contrast CT scan. The the outcome would have been very To learn more, contact
results indicated the need for surgery different. I am so thankful.” Lori Sipos-Mollo at 512-970-2040
might be appendicitis.”
After hearing his symptoms,
to remove a lesion on his kidney. Finally,
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THE COMPASS / BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION NEWS / FALL 2019