Compass Fall 2024

Contributions from the heart are helping Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Irving offer open heart surgeries for the first time in more than seven years. Thanks to gifts totaling $2.5 million to date, the hospital has been able to secure necessary new equipment that surgical teams will use for cardiovascular surgeries. An anonymous […]

Empowering people to live well is the vision of Baylor Scott & White Health. One collaboration that helps achieve this worthy aim is with Canine Companions and the provision of service dogs without charge to children, adults and Veterans who have proven need for these superbly trained animals. The Kinkeade Campus of Canine Companions is […]

For uninsured patients with proven financial need, Baylor Scott & White – IrvingCommunity Clinic is a godsend. With medical, behavioral, wound care and pharmacyservices available, patients made 11,132 visits to this medical-home clinic in the businessyear that ended June 30, 2024. The clinic also secured referrals for 400 of its patientsto make more than 2,000 […]

When changing physician referral patterns in Irving nearly doubled the number ofmonthly births overnight—from 150 to 270 or more starting in November 2022—BaylorScott & White Irving Foundation asked its community friends to help the hospital. Donorsresponded in significant and generous ways with gifts totaling more than $1.6 million.These funds helped fully fund the renovation of […]

The Texas Icons Luncheon is Baylor Scott & White Irving Foundation’s signature community event. Each year we celebrate Texans who are making an impact in their communities, annually we honor both an individual and company/foundation. Additionally, we have a celebrated Texan share their story with the audience. Please join us for this Texas sized event! […]

Letter from the Chair For nearly 30 years, I served as thefacilities vice president for Baylor Scott& White Medical Center – Irving. Howgratifying it is for me, now as a volunteer for the fundraising foundation, to see how our current leaders are still expanding the hospital and its offerings to help people live well, which […]

Our Irving hospital’s story began with the planning of a small group of dedicated civic leaders in the late 1950s. Armed with needs analysis data, they created the plan for a hospital to serve the people of Irving, which was one of the fastest growing suburbs in Texas at the time. In the early 1960s, […]