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Legendary oil and gas entrepreneur and philanthropist T. Boone Pickens has pledged $10 million in support of Baylor initiatives. In recognition of this gift, and in a move that links the innovative business leader with a leading cancer program, Baylor has honored Pickens by naming its new cancer hospital the Baylor T. Boone Pickens Cancer Hospital.    
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Today, women in Dallas-Fort Worth are more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than any other cancer, and every day, one family in the metroplex loses a loved one to the disease. Model Rhonda Sargent Chambers advocates for breast cancer awareness and urges women to “get a mammogram like your life depends on it.”

Check out the latest Celebrating Women ad campaign promoting early detection and awareness.
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Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas is ranked #1 in the Dallas/Fort Worth area in the U.S. News & World Report annual Best Hospitals rankings. The hospital, which has been on the U.S. News & World Report‘s rankings for 20 years, was ranked nationally for six medical specialties: gastroenterology, nephrology, orthopedics, pulmonology, urology, and gynecology.

These ranking come on the heels of the August 2012 issue of Consumer Reports naming Baylor Dallas #1 in Texas for hospital safety.       
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In anticipation of the July 6 opening of Baylor Medical Center at McKinney, more than 200 community leaders, donors and key supporters gathered to tour the facility. To date, more than $1.6 million has been raised in support of Baylor McKinney.      
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As we look towards Baylor's future, we will never lose sight of our purpose – that the patient is the center of all our efforts. Campaign 2015 is a testament to our patients and a commitment to the communities we serve. Through it, we believe we have the power to transform lives – lives like Ashley Reynolds'.      
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Campaign 2015: Baylor Makes Us All Better. This simple phrase was the impetus for a bold vision – take Baylor Health Care System to national pre-eminence in areas of health care that have the power to transform individual lives and the communities we serve.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation has set forth to achieve this vision by launching the first campaign in Baylor’s history. With a goal of raising $250 million, Campaign 2015 marks our most ambitious fundraising effort to date.     
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Great gifts are worth keeping, but the greatest gifts are worth sharing.  A single gift given more than a century ago laid the foundation for what is today the humanitarian health care system we know as Baylor.  This season, you have the opportunity to continue the legacy of giving and share your greatest gifts with the millions of patients Baylor serves each year. By giving to the Baylor Health Care System Foundation Annual Fund, you can provide much-needed support to the areas of greatest need throughout the hospital system.     
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation has a way to share the spirit of the holiday season with friends, family and Baylor Health Care System - all at the same time.

Just make a donation of $25 or more to Baylor Health Care System Foundation in honor of a friend or family member, and that person will receive a beautiful holiday tribute card telling them of your gift.     
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation is proud to announce that the Deerbrook Charitable Trust has pledged more than $12.4 million over the next three years to improve care for geriatric patients. The funds will support programs to improve care of the elderly population in hospitals, nursing homes, patients’ homes and through the education of future caregivers.   
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At an annual party hosted by State Rep. Jim Pitts at The House of Blues in Dallas on the weekend of the Texas-OU game, $125,000 was raised for Baylor Waxahachie. This year, guests were treated to a performance by The Blues Brothers featuring Dan Aykroyd and Jim Belushi.
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Award-winning actress and breast cancer survivor Diahann Carroll was the featured speaker at Baylor Health Care System Foundation’s 12th annual Celebrating Women luncheon. The event, presented for the seventh consecutive year by Tom Thumb, raised $2 million to benefit Baylor Health Care System’s fight against breast cancer.
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For the past seven years, Tom Thumb has served as the Presenting Sponsor of Baylor Health Care System Foundation's Celebrating Women luncheon.

 “We are incredibly grateful for Tom Thumb’s generous support and commitment throughout the years,” said Rowland K. Robinson, Foundation president. “This partnership has allowed Baylor to make great strides to ensure that the women who pass through our doors have access to the most advanced diagnostics, innovative research and technology, clinical excellence and compassionate care.”
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More than 200 golfers helped Baylor Health Care System Foundation raise $290,000 to support graduate medical education programs at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas by playing in the 10th annual Grand Round Golf Tournament on October 3 at Northwood Club in Dallas.

The tournament’s top score was registered by the Northern Trust team of Greg Dowell, Jeff Porta, Mark Amiri and Steve Cousins, who finished with a net score of 48. With a net score of 51.2, the Up & Open Imaging team of Chris Hanssen, Zack Burdick, Paul Giaratanno and Greg Perrin had the top performance of the morning round.
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Giovanni Filardo, Ph.D, MPH, director of epidemiology in the Baylor Health Care System Institute for Healthcare Research and Improvement, has been awarded a $2.3 million grant by the NIH National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to study new onset atrial fibrillation following isolated coronary artery bypass graft surgery.
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Dallas will soon welcome its second medical school. Texas A&M Health Science Center College of Medicine and Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas are joining forces to establish a Clinical Training Program. This will be the first time in more than 100 years that the city will have more than one medical school available for students.
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The Joint Commission’s 2011 annual report on quality and safety, Improving America’s Hospitals, has recognized five Baylor hospitals as “Top Performers on Key Quality Measures.”

These five hospitals are among 405 organizations identified as attaining and sustaining excellence in accountability measure performance for 2010. The Top Performers on Key Quality Measures program is designed to inspire better performance on 22 accountability measures for heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care and children’s asthma care.
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Hank Haney, recognized worldwide as one of the foremost authorities on the game of golf, will be the guest speaker at the VIP dinner for the 10th annual Grand Rounds® Golf Tournament, where he will share stories from the road and his philosophy on the essentials of the perfect swing. The event, held Monday, October 3 at Dallas’ Northwood Club, raises funds to provide graduate medical education to physicians on the staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
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Baylor Health Care System has appointed a world-renowned expert in immunology as vice president and chief scientific officer of Baylor Research Institute and director of Baylor Institute for Immunology Research.

Known for his research on the function of immune cells to fight cancer, Yong-Jun Liu, M.D., Ph.D, joined Baylor September 1. He comes to Baylor from The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, where he was professor and chair of the department of immunology, director of the center for cancer immunology research and Vivian L. Smith Distinguished Chair in Immunology.
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When presented with a diagnosis, patients sometimes consult another physician for a second opinion. At Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas, many of them get second—and third, and more — opinions without so much as asking.

That’s the idea behind the oncology site tumor conferences at Baylor Dallas, at which medical professionals from many different disciplines meet on a regular basis to discuss interesting and challenging oncology cases faced by Baylor patients. The conferences have two objectives: 1) to present patients with the best options of care available; and 2) to discuss these difficult cases in a collaborative environment for the educational benefit of all.
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Actress/singer Diahann Carroll has experienced many challenges and opportunities during her long, successful career. She’s won a Tony Award and a Golden Globe and been nominated for Emmys and an Academy Award.

But it was a visit to the doctor’s office that has made the biggest impact on her life.

“My diagnosis of breast cancer in 1997 stunned me,” Diahann said. “Having no family history of breast cancer, and having always been conscious about my diet and exercise, I had a false sense of security about cancer. ‘It won't happen to me,’ I thought. Well, you know what? It did. And when I heard that horrific word, I was confused, angry and temporarily disconnected from the reality of it. I feared for my life, and then for my career.”

Diahann will share stories from her breast cancer journey as the featured speaker at Baylor Health Care System Foundation’s 12th annual Celebrating Women luncheon on October 28 at the Hilton Anatole hotel.
Read more about Celebrating Women here.

Baylor Health Care System Foundation has welcomed 20 community leaders to its board.

“These people will be excellent partners to the Foundation as we take bold steps during the next few years on behalf of Baylor Health Care System and its patients,” said Rowland K. Robinson, president of the Foundation. “Their leadership will be a great asset as we move forward.”
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For the 19th consecutive year, U.S. News & World Report has listed Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas in its America's Best Hospitals issue. Baylor Dallas is ranked among the nation's top 50 hospitals in four medical specialties: gastroenterology, nephrology, pulmonology and urology.

Additionally, Baylor again has more Best Hospitals on the metro list than any other health care system in Dallas/Fort Worth.
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For the third consecutive year, contributions to the Baylor Health Care System Foundation Employee Giving Campaign have reached new heights. Employees at Baylor Health Care System facilities in Dallas, Carrollton, Garland, Grapevine, Plano and Waxahachie gave $1,524,903 this year to support Baylor initiatives.
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“We are just ordinary people. Don came to Baylor on the verge of death and we were treated like the most important people in the world. We took the doc on call that week just like anyone else that walked in the door,” said Linda Barnett, whose husband recently gave a surprise $10,000 donation in honor of Dr. Joseph Fay to show his gratitude for the 10 years he has survived since he got a second opinion at Baylor.
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The first Swim Across America event in Texas was held on June 11 at Lake Ray Hubbard. Approximately 220 swimmers raised $350,000 for the new Innovative Clinical Trials Center at the Baylor Sammons Cancer Center. Martin Doolan made a big splash with a $100,000 donation on the day of the event

Alan Miller, M.D., Ph.D., and Carlos Becerra, M.D., participated in the area’s first open water swim. “I swim for my patients, some of whom who have a difficult time. They come to me because they are in need of new therapeutic agents to beat this disease, cancer,” Dr. Becerra said. “Also, my mom, dad and father-in-law have been affected in some way or another by this disease.”
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Pomeroy and Betty Smith may be new to Dallas, but they are not strangers to Baylor. In return for the care they have received from Raymon Aggarwal, M.D.; Johannes Kuiper, M.D.; and Robert Kowal, M.D., they have made a $1 million gift that will establish and endow a chair for cardiovascular graduate medical education at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas.
Read the torch June 2011 edition

Nerve damage to her right leg keeps Tori Roberts from riding a bike and running. She must drive using a device that lets her hit the gas pedal with her left foot. But none of that stopped the Southlake teenager from organizing the Simple Steps 5K walk last October.
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Many of us have favorite stories for May's National Pet Month, but Baylor's service dogs can truly change the lives of disabled people by offering a helping paw and friendly heart.  Thanks to a $600,000 grant, Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas will now have the nation’s first service dog organization affiliated with a hospital.
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation has been awarded a gold Aster Award, one of the most prestigious health care marketing awards in the country. "This is just another example of how Baylor holds itself to the highest levels of quality," said Rowland K. Robinson, president of the Foundation. The Aster Award was given to the torch for excellence in the newsletter category. 
View the torch Spring 2011 edition

Celebrating Women committee members are gathering together to add their personal touch to the sponsorship reminders being sent out next week. "We've had a tremendous response from our committee members!" said Fredye Factor, co-chairman of the breast cancer campaign.  More than 1,200 people turn out to support the annual campaign and luncheon each year, which has raised more than $16 million.
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The 2011 Celebrating Women campaign kicked off with a bang on Thursday, when Desperate Housewives’ Ricardo Chavira paid a surprise visit to the campaign committee. Ricardo is passionate about rallying the campaign, since his mother died from breast and ovarian cancer and both of his sisters have been treated for breast cancer in the last three years. Every four hours, someone in Dallas-Fort Worth is diagnosed with breast cancer… join us to help our community fight this disease!
Watch Ricardo at the kickoff

The 2011 Employee Giving Campaign (EGC) is underway through May 13. We hope every Baylor employee will consider contributing to the EGC. Through your gift, you have the opportunity to significantly impact the needs at your facility or you can designate your gift to support the Faith In Action Initiatives. Whatever you decide to give, however you decide to focus your gift, remember that 100 percent of your gift goes to the area you choose.
Video: see EGC’s impact

We have long known that lifestyle choices, including nutrition, can have an impact on our health. However, few have heard about the immense benefits of curcumin, an ingredient in curry. Read more about curcumin and other superfoods that can help prevent cancer and other illnesses. And don't forget the naan!
Read about Superfoods in the torch, page 7

U.S. News & World Report has named six Baylor Health Care System hospitals to its first-ever ranking of the Best Hospitals Metro Area ranking for Dallas/Fort Worth, more than any other North Texas hospital system. “The number of Baylor hospitals on this list shows the strength and the breadth of the Baylor Health Care System,” says Joel Allison, president and CEO. To be ranked in its metro area, a hospital had to score in the top 25 percent among its peers in at least one of 16 medical specialties.
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”Wow.” That has been the general reaction of the community leaders, former patients and medical staff who have previewed the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas, which will have a grand opening on March 26.

“I plan to come back here,” said one man who, thanks to a clinical research trial at Baylor, is celebrating 10 years of surviving cancer after another health care system told him he would have only 2 months to live. “I would – almost – agree to be sick again just to visit this place. But I’ll just come back for lunch instead.”
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Baylor's innovative Faith In Action (FIAI) team has responded quickly to Japan’s crisis, bringing together donations, supplies and volunteers. “We are especially looking for funds to ship a truckload of emergency supplies, and are in constant contact with our own people and other organizations on the ground,” said Don Sewell, FIAI lead.
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"I am dying. At age 41, I am facing my second recurrence of cancer. I was first diagnosed with an advanced and rare type of breast cancer in 2001. This led to a large tumor in my brain last year. Now the cancer has spread to my spinal fluid, which will likely seal my fate within weeks." - Adriana Jenkins, Forbes, February 9th, 2011
As I read this poignant testimony, I realized again...
Read Robin's column in the Spring 2011 issue of the torch

Daniel Von Hoff, M.D., is working with Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Dallas as it develops its Innovative Clinical Trials Center. The center will be the home for Phase I clinical trails, which are focused on advancing knowledge in the field of cancer treatment and providing options for patiens whose cancers have resisted standard treatments.
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Dallas, one of fattest cities in America, is now also home to an exciting medical study for drastic weight loss… thanks to a grant from the Discovery Foundation.  John Fordtran, M.D., and Joe Kuhn, M.D., are leading the way. 
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Annette and Harold Simmons recently made national news, as their gift to Baylor – the largest recorded gift to any Dallas non-profit last year – placed them in the top 50 philanthropists of 2010. While giving in the United States is at a record-breaking low, Baylor has continued to generate major support from philanthropists who understand that a great city needs great health care.
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Dalton Young was shot in the head by his mother, but thanks to a miraculous recovery and a donation from Shared Technologies, the 10 year old patient at Our Children’s House at Baylor has a new story to tell: an incredible experience at Super Bowl XLV.
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation is mourning the loss of board member and philanthropist Jack Hamilton, a great supporter and friend of the Foundation and Baylor Health Care System. Jack passed away on Tuesday, January 25th. We will all miss our dear friend, Jack, who meant so much to the Foundation as well to each and every person he met.
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The Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute (DHWI) in South Dallas, an affiliate of the Baylor Health Care System, recently received a boost from Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Foundation in the form of a $25,000 grant. The funds are earmarked for DHWI’s innovative Total Recreation™ program, which is one of the first wellness programs in the nation to integrate sports and recreation activities, community outreach, and health education programs for children and adults in underserved communities.
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Swim Across America just announced its inaugural Dallas Open Water Swim, which promises to be an event to remember. Olympian swimmers will organize activities and train participants for the first SAA event to be held in Texas. Participants may register now and start raising money for the open water course to be held at The Harbor in Rockwall, TX on June 11, 2011. The event will benefit the Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center at Baylor Dallas.
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Baylor is participating in a study that’s not just exploring the potential advantages of early detection of lung cancer. It’s also giving people in the community access to the screening technique required to find the disease in its earliest stages.  It is the only location in Texas participating in the study. 
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A year ago, our Annual Fund campaign demonstrated the power of one donation. We showed you how one donation could help a doctor, who could help a patient, who in turn could go on to help the entire community.

This year, we want to show how your donation can make the same difference in a variety of ways at Baylor Health Care System. With 10 research facilities supporting more than 800 research projects, 26 hospitals and more than 260 locations that support 1.4 million patients and in excess of 200 graduate medical students, there are so many ways that one donation can have an impact within this not-for-profit health care system.

We feel it’s important for you to see the real examples and the real faces that you – our supporters – are influencing when you give a gift, so we included several of them in this year’s Annual Fund brochure. These are the members of the staff at Baylor and some of the people they help. Annual Fund donations typically go to the greatest area of need, but you also have the option of selecting which of many initiatives you want to support.
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At the new year, we reflect on 2010 and the difference our donors have made in the lives of so many people at Baylor: not only the patients we help, but also the staff members who are so happy to make a difference in the lives of others.

Thank you for showing the power that one donation can make in improving lives and inspiring others.  All of the staff at Baylor Health Care System Foundation wish each of you a year full of health and happiness.

The entire staff at Baylor Health Care System Foundation wishes each of you a very merry Christmas!

Ron and Tracey Lockard feel blessed. Blessed that Ron managed to go to college despite financial challenges and then parlay that education into his own successful business. Blessed that Tracey survived her bout with stomach cancer. Now, they’re sharing their blessings with others.
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation's David Burgher was highlighted with his wife, Nancy, in a special insert in PaperCity. In the profile, they talk about how they give back to the community at Christmas and throughout the year.
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Joe Colonnetta is a private equity investor with HM Capital Partners in Dallas who joined the Baylor Health Care System Foundation Board of Directors in 2009. He and his wife, Kimberly, have been involved in sponsoring experimental initiatives for the psychological support of patients undergoing cancer treatment. They are the busy parents of four teenagers: Michael, Lucy, Damon and Jack.
Read Joe's entire profile in the torch, page 6

The entire staff at Baylor Health Care System Foundation wishes you a happy Chanukah!

Annette and Harold C. Simmons have pledged $20 million to benefit transplantation initiatives within Baylor Health Care System. In recognition of this transformational gift, Baylor will rename the institute the Annette C. and Harold C. Simmons Transplant Institute.
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Robert Miller dedicated his Thanksgiving weekend column to the personal story of Norm Bagwell, who is alive today thanks to his wife's donation of a kidney.

Miller also details tremendous support provided by Annette and Harold Simmons to the newly named Annette C. and Harold C. Transplant Institute, and Baylor's leadership in transplantation since its creation 25 years ago.
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation celebrated the accomplishments of Leonard Riggs’ tenure as chairman of the board in November at a dinner at The Mansion at Turtle Creek. Leonard helped the Foundation to raise more than $100 million in four years.
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Throughout the year, any time you make a donation in honor or in memory of someone, Baylor Health Care System Foundation will send a tribute card to the address you designate. During November - January, the Foundation's special holiday tribute card design provides a nice way to send a personal holiday card letting families know that you have made a special gift in their honor. Tribute cards are available for a gift of $25 or more.
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Thanks to loyal Baylor supporter Mariano Martinez, The Dallas Morning News has shown that patients can benefit from margartas - or more specifically, from their sales. Mariano invented the frozen margarita machine, which is now displayed at the Smithsonian. The highly successful entrepreneur is a civic leader that lists Baylor as one of his favored Dallas not-for-profits.
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With an emphasis on family, Baylor Health Care System Foundation hosted its 11th annual Celebrating Women luncheon in October at the Hilton Anatole hotel in Dallas. Featured speakers Jill Eikenberry and Michael Tucker charmed the audience with stories about the way their marriage was affected by her breast cancer.
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At today's luncheon, Foundation president Rowland K. "Robin" Robinson announced that an anonymous donor has pledged a multimillion-dollar gift to the 2010 Celebrating Women campaign.

The donor was inspired to make the gift after seeing a rendering of the chapel that will be the gateway to the Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center.

The funds from the donor’s significant gift will make an impact in the new Baylor Charles A. Sammons Cancer Center, which is scheduled to open in April 2011. Breast cancer research will be an important beneficiary of this donation.

“There’s an old quote that’s particularly appropriate here: ‘The measure of a man’s character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out,’ ” said Rowland K. Robinson, president of Baylor Health Care System Foundation. “This is a perfect demonstration of that notion, and we are so grateful for this gift, which will make a profound impact on the lives of thousands of families for years to come."
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We’re in the home stretch of our preparations for the 11^th annual Celebrating Women, so we thought it would be fun to take a few moments to talk to our chairmen, Christie Carter and Cindy Carter, about all the behind-the-scenes work it has taken to reach this point.
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More than 170 golfers helped Baylor Health Care System Foundation raise $265,000 to support graduate medical education programs at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas by playing in the ninth annual Grand Rounds Golf Tournament in October at Northwood Club in Dallas.
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We created this list from real stories in recent months to remind ourselves what difference we're making every day for patients at Baylor.  As a donor, you may touch a life without realizing the difference you are making for that patient and his or her loved ones.

Today I...

Helped a 34 year-old father find a new kidney through our new partners match. Six days later he attended his son’s first T-ball game.

Bought special toys so a 5 year-old undergoing therapy at Our Children’s House could take his favorite adapted toy home and play with his brothers and sisters just like a normal kid.

Helped a 28 year-old single mother go back to school and finish her nursing degree.

Taught 25 diabetic patients that vegetables can really taste good when you cook them with a little olive oil.

Comforted a family in the NICU as they removed life support from their 29-week twin girl.

Celebrated with that same family when the surviving twin “graduated” after 7 weeks in the NICU that saved her life.

Signed the final steel beam on the new cancer center that will provide hope to thousands of cancer patients.

Helped a 63-year-old fireman get back on the job and save more lives after a heart attack through our Return to Work cardiac rehab program.

Delivered a break-through cancer vaccine to a 54 year-old grandfather recently diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Today I... made a difference.

The Jim and Angela Thompson Foundation has made a $1 million gift that will create a diagnostic liver laboratory at Baylor Dallas.
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A visit to the Blanche Swanzy Lange NICU at Baylor Dallas moved the Spangenbergs to help some of the hospital's most vulnerable patients.
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Robert Miller announced the new members of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation board of directors in the August 17 issue of The Dallas Morning News. We are glad to have them on board!
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More than 200 friends and family helped Baylor Health Care System Foundation recognize Lindalyn's milestone day - and her decades of caring for the Dallas community.

Alan Peppard highlighted Lindalyn's birthday celebration in his column in the July 4 issue of The Dallas Morning News.
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Ernie Wayne and Bill Aston had one thing in common: They were passionate about providing the best care for patients at Baylor.
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In 2008, we were filming Donna Bowers, VP of Oncology, about the upcoming cancer center. Always ready for business, she was quick with statistics on the growing need in Dallas for comprehensive cancer care. What came next surprised us. As we were packing up our camera, we asked Donna: do you have any personal history with Baylor? Her response, and her warm smile, reminded us how it is personal for each of us.

Watch Donna talk about her true story on Youtube

Carr P. Collins Sr.'s greatest gift to Baylor Health Care System may have been sharing his love of philanthropy with the generations that followed.
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The Foundation's own Lindalyn Adams increased her long list of honors by adding the Oak Cliff Lions Club's Bill Melton Humanitarian Award.
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TXU Corporation chairman emeritus Erle Nye succeeded Dr. Leonard Riggs as chairman of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation board of directors on June 30.
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Physicians on the medical staff at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas shared potential uses for adult stem cells in patients with various conditions during a lunch meeting with Baylor Health Care System Foundation supporters.
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Much of what the recently passed $940 billion health care reform law will bring remains to be seen. But whatever happens, Baylor Health Care System will be prepared for it, said Joel Allison, Baylor’s president and chief executive officer.
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Baylor Health Care System has always been a special place to Jayne Grimes. As a fifth-generation North Texan, she says, “Baylor was just always known as the place to go..."
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Baylor Health Care System has always been a special place to Jayne Grimes. As a fifth-generation North Texan, she says, “Baylor was just always known as the place to go..."
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Mae Centeno, R.N., and Charlene Cink, R.N., were seeing an alarmingly high number of heart failure patients readmitted to Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas within 30 days of being discharged.
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One gift can impact so many unseen others and have an impact far wider than we may have ever imagined. And at a time when nonprofits’ revenues and income from endowments are down, the importance of an individual gift becomes that much greater.
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The Soltero Cardiovascular Research Center (SCRC) at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas has played a role in evaluating the efficacy of dabigatran, an investigational blood-thinning medication that may be more effective and easier to use for patients with atrial fibrillation.
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Baylor Health Care System has always been a special place to Jayne Grimes. As a fifth-generation North Texan, she says, “Baylor was just always known as the place to go..."
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation posted its first video on YouTube on Monday. Watch a great example of how one act can create a ripple effect of positive change!
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Since 1924, the Carr P. Collins Sr. family has been actively involved with Baylor Health Care System. That involvement and support was recently extended in a significant way when four Collins family foundations came together to make possible a generous $1 million grant.
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A new technologically advanced conference center will be built at Baylor Dallas, thanks to donors like the Hunt family, who have contributed more than $2 million for the project.
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Baylor Health Care System Foundation's Annual Fund message, which tells the true story of a donor and the people he touched, received a Bronze Addy for its elegant portrayal and reminder to others to make such an impact. The competition is judged by the creative community and is arguably one of the most competitive in the world.
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A heart transplant candidate was in the hospital at Baylor Dallas, waiting for her surgery, when she suffered a stroke.
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