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PHILANTHROPY IN ACTION
How Fort Worth Philanthropy
Is Making a Difference
Rapid CT Perfusion Project
Thanks to the generosity of the Once Upon
Prescription Assistance
Recently, the Baylor Scott & White
Hybrid Operating Room
Thanks to the generosity of the
A Time Foundation, 15 hospitals within the All Saints Health Foundation distributed Schollmaier Foundation and the Amon
Baylor Scott & White Health system are $2,500 from our indigent care fund toward G. Carter Foundation, a new hybrid
now able to provide advanced technology purchasing Prescription Assistance operating room (OR) will be opened at
for stroke patients. The purchase of software for the Baylor Scott & White the end of May 2020 at Baylor Scott &
the RAPID neuroimaging platform, a Community Care Clinic of Fort Worth. This White – Fort Worth.
cerebrovascular imaging software, helps clinic, located on-site at the Fort Worth patients who present with stroke-like campus, provides care for lower- and imaging technology in the setting of
symptoms to be evaluated immediately middle-income underserved patients, an operating room, merging minimally
to determine if they are good candidates including Medicaid and the uninsured. From invasive and traditional surgical sciences.
for intervention. The software provides October 2019 through December 2019, the This innovative equipment allows
a real-time view of brain perfusion and Prescription Assistance software enabled interventional cardiologists, radiologists,
enables physicians to determine if blood our clinic to secure $644,984 worth of and vascular surgeons to work together in
flow can be restored. Recent studies medications for 242 patients. Overall, this one room to diagnose, treat, and intervene
have concluded that physically removing software has helped secure medications all at the same time.
brain clots up to 16 hours after symptom worth $5.2 million for 1,684 patients at all onset in these selected patients led to Baylor Scott & White Community Care long incision over the belly to repair an
improved outcomes compared to standard Clinics across North Texas. The Foundation aortic aneurysm now involves two small
medical therapies. This new technology is proud to have supported the purchase punctures in the groin.
allows physicians to make faster decisions, of this software, which is proving to be resulting in much-improved outcomes for an amazing return on investment and an of traditional surgical procedures -
stroke patients. incredible service to our patients who most resulting in shorter recovery times, less
need support! stress on the heart, and less trauma and
A hybrid OR combines advanced
For example, what once required a
A hybrid OR reduces the invasiveness
discomfort for patients.
For more information on the various funding
opportunities at Baylor Scott & White – Fort
Worth, please contact the Foundation Office
at 817.922.7707 or AllSaintsFoundation@
BSWHealth.org.
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