Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor

 

Baylor Scott & White Health provides a comprehensive approach to the care of patients with diabetes. We offer services related to cardiology and pulmonology for heart and lung care, neurology for nervous​ system care​, nephrology for kidney care, ophthalmology to prevent vision loss, orthopedics ​and physical medicine and rehabilitation and podiatry to maintain foot health.

In addition, we offer diabetes education programs to teach individuals of every age how to successfully manage diabetes and enhance their overall quality of life.

At Baylor Scott & White, we are committed not only to diagnosing and treating your digestive conditions and diseases but also helping you make lifestyle adjustments.

To help care for you, we provide:​​​​

• Advanced diagnostic technology
• Treatment for a variety of digestive conditions
• Education and support programs
• Research and clinical trials

From chest pain to snake bites, you can count on us to provide you with quality emergency care 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 immediately.

There are many disorders of the eye that require clinical care by a physician or other healthcare professional. Our eye care team includes ophthalmologists and optometrists on the medical staff.

Some common conditions treated include:

• Age-related macular degeneration​ (AMD)
• Cataracts​
• Corneal diseases
• Diabetic retinopathy​
• Glaucoma​
• Refractive errors​ (astigmatism, farsightedness and nearsightedness)​
• Retinal diseases

Our team of cardiologists, surgeons, interventional radiologists on the medical staff and healthcare professionals works together to provide you quality care for a range of heart and vascular conditions.

We offer a comprehensive program that includes heart disease prevention, advanced diagnosis and treatment options and continued care and support for patients living with heart and vascular conditions.

Our services include:

• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Cardiology
• Electrophysiology
• Heart failure
• Vascular care

Home ​care is a service that provides treatment within the comfort of your own home. The main focus of the home health team is to increase your independence and improve quality of life.

Home care may be recommended by your physician for conditions including:

• Total hip or knee replacement recovery
• Pain management
• Difficulty with everyday life activities such as eating, grooming, bathing, dressing, transferring, walking, swallowing or wheelchair mobility
• Conditions requiring medication management
• Gastrostomy/nasogastric feeding/Peg tube care
• IV therapy
• Laboratory and diagnostic tests in the home
• Foley catheter care and training
• Wound care

Advanced imaging technology provides clearer pictures for radiologists and other specialty physicians on the medical staff to provide a more accurate diagnosis that leads to a customized treatment plan, if needed, to start the healing process.​​

Our imaging centers use advanced technology to assist physicians on the medical staff at Baylor Scott & White in providing quality care.

Services include:

• Arthrography
• Bone density measurement​
• Breast Imaging
• CT scan​ (computerized tomography, including low-cost lung cancer CT screening)
• Interventional radiology
• MRI​ (magnetic resonance​ imaging)
  • Functional MRI
• Myelogram​
• Nuclear medicine​​​
  • Nuclear PET scan
  • Radiofrequency ablation
  • I-131 therapy for hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer
• Radioimmunotherapy
• Ultrasound
• X-ray and fluoroscopy
• Virtual colonoscopy

Hospitalists, also known as inpatient medicine physicians, specialize in general medical care for hospitalized people. A hospitalist will provide care upon your hospital admission and will continue the care during your stay. The hospitalist handles admissions, coordinates diagnostic tests, works with your primary care physician and helps with your discharge.

Chronic pain can lead to a drastic change in a person's quality of life. At Baylor Scott & White, our healthcare professionals offer many options for advanced pain therapy.​

Baylor Scott & White provides patients with comprehensive care to relieve different types of pain:

• Chronic pain
• Chronic lower back pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Nonspecific back pain
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Sciatic nerve pain

From sports injuries to stroke rehabilitation, ​​​our goal is to use a comprehensive approach to returning you to a more active, healthful lifestyle.

We treat numerous conditions in the areas of:

• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Neurologic disorders and injuries
• Pediatric neurological and developmental disorders
• Post-operative care
• Sports injuries

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor is unique in offering this level of post-acute care or "swing bed service" which is not available in most acute care hospitals.

The professional skilled nursing staff an provide a complete spectrum of care for the recovering patient (as prescribed by a physician) including:

• Physical therapy
• Occupational therapy
• Speech therapy
• IV  medication administration
• Respiratory therapy
• 24-hour skilled nursing care
• Wound care

Help for sleep disorders is available at Baylor Scott & White Health. Our sleep program is dedicated to alleviating symptoms and improve sleep patterns and daily life for people with sleep disorders. We offer a full range of up-to-date diagnostic and treatment procedures as part of our comprehensive care program to help you get back to sleep.

To diagnose and treat sleep disorders, experts at Baylor Scott & White may use a variety of sleep studies and treatment methods, including:

• Home sleep study
• Actigraph to monitor sleep and wake patterns
• Nocturnal polysomnography
• CPAP titration study (continuous airway pressure therapy)
• Nocturnal seizure monitoring
• Ventilatory support study
• Maintenance of wakefulness test (MWT)
• Multiple sleep latency testing (MSLT)
• Pediatric sleep study
• Seizure sleep study
• Split night sleep study

Baylor Scott & White Health offers numerous surgical services. Innovations such as single incision laparoscopic surgery, robotic surgery and other operations provide you with advanced surgical options.​​​

Our surgical specialties at this location may include:

• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Colon and rectal surgery
• General surgery
• Gynecological surgery
• Head and neck surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Pediatric surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Podiatric medicine and surgery
• Surgical oncology
• Urologic surgery
• Vascular surgery

Baylor Scott & White provides a variety of outpatient services, and select centers also provide inpatient care. Research has shown that in addition to promoting wound healing, comprehensive wound care programs can reduce the risk of infection or other complications.

Conditions treated include:

• Arterial wounds
• Venous wounds
• Diabetic lower extremity wounds
• Diabetic ulcers
• New or non-healing surgical wounds
• Traumatic wounds
• Pressure ulcers (also known as "bed sores”)
• Minor burns​​
• Atypical wounds
• Radiation wounds
• Abdominal stomas
• Non-healing wounds of any kind