Referrals

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Easily refer your patient to us via EpicCare Link, or by phone or online form.

EpicCare Link securely connects referring practitioners and staff to select patient information in the Baylor Scott & White Health Epic electronic health record.

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Call 1.844.BSWDOCS to refer

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Other resources and services

OR Scheduler

View instructions, find hospital contacts or download OR scheduling and surgery consent forms for surgeries performed at Baylor Scott & White Health.

Find instructions and contacts

Download OR scheduling form

Download surgery pre-op order set

Download surgery consent form

Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

Our accredited clinical pathology and anatomic pathology laboratories provide comprehensive testing and diagnostic services to patients at Baylor Scott & White. In addition we also offer outreach services to Central Texas private and commercial facilities through our reference laboratory.

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Visual Function Center

The Visual Function Center at Baylor University Medical Center provides visual function and ophthalmic imaging for medical practices on and off the Baylor University Medical Center campus.

If you are a board-certified physician or surgeon interested in utilizing our services and equipment, call us at 214.820.2763

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Patient transfer and emergent transport

At Baylor Scott & White Health, we prioritize your patient's safety, ensuring that each transfer is swift, efficient, and guided by the best interests of your patients' health.

Aortic Center (DFW)

Baylor Scott & White Health can provide patients with acute aortic syndrome timely surgical intervention at two of our high-volume cardiac surgery centers in the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) metroplex. Surgeons on the medical staff are on call 24/7 to receive acute aortic emergencies.

For patients presenting with acute aortic dissections and other thoracic aortic emergencies, call our Patient Transfer Center from anywhere in the metroplex to receive immediate transport and intervention.

Call 214.820.6444

To schedule your patient for a non-emergent evaluation at the Aortic Center, call 469.814.3480.

About the program

The Patient Transfer Center is your direct line to saving a life. It provides your patient access to quality surgical intervention at a high-volume cardiac surgery center where operative mortality is significantly lower than at low-volume centers.*

Surgeons on the medical staff are on call 24/7 to receive acute aortic emergencies, such as:

Acute Type A or B Dissection
Thoracic Aortic Aneurysm
Thoracoabdominal Aneurysm

An acute aortic dissection emergency has a mortality rate of 1 percent each hour that treatment is delayed. Left untreated, this emergency has a mortality rate of 21 percent at day one, 74 percent at day 14 and 93 percent at one year.**

* Mani Arsalan, MD, John J. Squiers, BSE, Morley A. Herbert, PhD, Juan C. MacHannaford, MD, Themistokles Chamogeorgakis, MD, Syma L. Prince, RN, BSN, Baron L. Hamman, MD, Cathy Knoff, RN, MBA, David O. Moore, MD, Katherine B. Harrington, MD, J. Michael DiMaio, MD, Michael J. Mack, MD, William T. Brinkman, MD, Comparison of Outcomes of Operative Therapy for Acute Type A Aortic Dissections Provided at High-Volume Versus Low-Volume Medical Centers in North Texas. American Journal of Cardiology, October 2016.

** Hirst AE Jr, Johns VJ Jr, Kime SW Jr, Dissecting aneurysm of the aorta: A review of 505 cases. Medicine (Baltimore) 1958; 37:217-79.

Our Business Development and Physician Engagement team can serve as a single point of communication for your practice when questions or issues arise.

We hope to be a resource for the following areas and more:

Assistance in establishing access to EpicCare Link, the portal to the electronic health record
Facilitating referrals if difficulties arise
Providing information on Baylor Scott & White Health physician specialists and services
Troubleshooting any problems with service to referring physicians
Discussing operational improvements that make interacting with Baylor Scott & White Health easier
Identifying CME opportunities for continuing education credit
Answering any questions regarding interactions with Baylor Scott & White Health

For personalized assistance and the most up-to-date information on our services, please contact a team member at a facility near you.

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Certain procedures require specified infrastructure and physician expertise to provide optimal outcomes for patients.

Moving high-risk procedures to hospitals and facilities that meet rigorous criteria based on national benchmarks for each procedure is being implemented in phases, evaluating different procedures and treatments.

By aggregating surgeries and procedures that have high risk, yet few in annual volume, we can ensure that essential resources are available at the treating hospital and, as important, institutional volumes are at a level to provide the expertise resulting in fewer complications and improved outcomes.

Specialized workgroups evaluated the three procedures against national standards and outcomes, and identified facilities where they perform esophagectomy for cancer, mitral valve procedures and pancreaticoduodenectomy/Whipple.

Continuing Education courses for credit

Baylor Scott & White Health through the A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education offers in-person and online courses that meet continuing education requirements.

A. Webb Roberts Center for Continuing Medical Education is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME).

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Find a variety of helpful tools and information for medical professionals including training and education, career opportunities, patient referral options, as well as the latest research and advancements from our investigators and collaborators.

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