A new center focused on brain and spine services has opened at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Plano.
The Brain and Spine Center at Baylor Scott & White – Plano offers comprehensive care within both medical and surgical specialties. A few of these services are brain tumor surgery, movement disorders and epilepsy treatment, neuromodulation, complex spine surgery, minimally invasive spine surgery, peripheral nerve disorders treatment, and headache and stroke care.
\”Our community has indicated they want to have these highly specialized services available within Plano,\” said Jerri Garison, president, Baylor Scott & White – Plano. \”We built a powerful team of physicians and specialty certified nurses to care for patients with these complex neurological and neurosurgical diseases.\”
The neurosurgeons and neuro-interventional radiologists on the medical staff at Baylor Scott & White -Plano focus on non-invasive surgical techniques, in which the surgical procedure is completed through small incisions, causing less disruption to the soft tissue and muscle. Benefits of non-invasive surgery may include reduction in post-operative pain, shorter stay in hospital, less blood loss-and usually quicker go back to a functional level and to work.
\”Successfully treating patients who have complex neurological diseases requires teamwork on all amounts of patient care,\” said Jeremy W. Denning, MD, medical director, neurological surgery, Baylor Scott & White – Plano. \”Baylor Scott & White Clinic – Plano put together a team to build an innovative program.\”
The hospital uses the StealthStationTM surgical navigation system which helps neurosurgeons to exactly track the place of surgical instruments within a procedure. The StealthStation system introduces a sophisticated form of Stealth technology – a mix of hardware, software, tracking algorithms, image data merging, and specialized instruments to assist guide them during surgical treatments such as biopsy, tumor resection and deep brain stimulation lead placement.
A new epilepsy monitoring unit belongs to the hospital's growth of its intensive care unit to 32 beds from 16 beds. Four beds within the new unit is going to be focused on epilepsy monitoring.
About Baylor Scott & White Health
Formed from the 2013 merger between Baylor Healthcare System and Scott & White Healthcare, the system known as Baylor Scott & White Health is the largest not-for-profit healthcare system within the state of Texas. With total assets of $10.8 billion* and serving a population larger than the state of Georgia, Baylor Scott & White Health has the vision and resources to provide its patients continued quality care while developing a model system for a dramatically changing healthcare environment. The system now includes 48 hospitals, more than 1,000 access points, 5,500 active physicians, and 44,000 employees, plus the Scott & White Health Plan, Baylor Scott & White Research Institute and Baylor Scott & White Quality Alliance – a network of clinical providers and facilities centered on improving quality, handling the health of patient populations, and lowering the overall cost of care. For more information visit: bswhealth.com