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HILL COUNTRY: NEWS 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, or click here to visit our website. 7 THE COMPASS / BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION NEWS / FALL 2019