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Service to the Community
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Community Service
The leadership teams at Baylor Jack and Jane Hamilton
Heart and Vascular Hospital and Baylor University
Medical Center are committed to the mission of giving
back to the community by providing community health
screenings. For heart and vascular services, this means
providing wide-spread health information throughout the
community and involvement in selected neighborhoods of
need for biometric screenings. It also means reaching out
to civic organizations and clubs who strive to help improve
community health. In fiscal year 2017, the hospital teams
collectively conducted more than eleven community
screenings; providing blood pressure screening,
cholesterol screening, BMI and/or glucose readings.
Calls increased over prior years for Baylor Hamilton
Heart and Vascular Hospital’s education department to
assist with Hands-Only CPR education. Several classes
were provided for Dallas Independent School District
administration and staff, various area high schools, charter
schools, and businesses. During June’s CPR Awareness
Week, June 1 through 7, 2017, the staff provided an
opportunity for visitors to learn Hands-Only CPR in
the lobby of the hospital. In keeping with the American
Heart Association efforts to help save lives with Hands-
Only CPR instruction, the team at Baylor Hamilton
Heart and Vascular services instructed more than 700
people in fiscal year 2017 and improved knowledge of
the warning signs and symptoms of a heart attack.