Refer a patient
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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