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WACO: PHILANTHROPIC OPPORTUNITY Elite Care for the Whole Community The new Sports & Orthopedic Center is beginning to take shape at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest onstruction crews are busy A surgery center for orthopedic those involving the brain, spine, and placing beams and laying the procedures will be located conveniently musculoskeletal system. groundwork for the 106,000 in the same complex as medical An AlterG Treadmill will help reduce square-foot facility scheduled to open practices and rehabilitation services. gravity’s impact on the user, allowing in early 2020. Featuring both indoor and Our Fusionetics Performance patients to push their physical therapy outdoor space for the rehabilitation and Health System provides effective rehabilitation and training further development of every type of athlete, the solutions focused on reducing with less pain and stress to joints and center is designed to enhance the health injury, optimizing performance, and muscles. The treadmill also provides and well-being of the entire community. enhancing recovery. a safe way to lose weight with “With this new addition to our campus, we seek to prevent injuries before they occur with advanced performance more intensive exercise or improve Philanthropic Opportunity mobility and strength for those with “Our community has graciously neurological conditions. practices and prevention technology,” and generously supported Hillcrest’s A Bio-dex Machine will be used in says Glenn Robinson, president for Baylor advancement of health care services for physical therapy to measure quad and Scott & White – Waco Region. “When decades, and we are honored to have hamstring strength following surgery, injuries do strike, we stand ready to treat received many gifts for the new Sport & identify risk for re-injury, and establish patients with a team approach to each Orthopedic Center,” Mr. Robinson says. an appropriate timeline for return to individual’s unique injury.” “Philanthropy is a critical component to competitive sports. our Sacred Work, and we can never say An outdoor performance facility will thank you enough to those who have enhance physical therapy by providing answered the call to help.” space for activities such as running, Highlights A sports performance space will allow team members to analyze the A capital campaign is currently movement of athletes of all ages to underway to fund leading-edge improve strength, conditioning, and equipment and technology for this performance with a focus on safety. premier facility: cutting, and pitching, or movements like swinging a golf club or tumbling. To learn more about how you can help, Specialists will offer both surgical and A 3.0T MRI will provide high-resolution please contact Jeremy Ksionda, director of nonsurgical solutions to pain in hand/ images to aid in the diagnosis of a philanthropy for Waco, at 254-202-9553. wrist, foot/ankle, spine, and total joint. variety of conditions, particularly 7 THE COMPASS / BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE CENTRAL TEXAS FOUNDATION NEWS / SUMMER 2019