Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano is proud to announce Alfred Levy, M.D., F.A.A.F.P. as medical director of supportive and palliative care at Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano and THE HEART HOSPITAL Baylor Plano.
Dr. Levy received his medical degree from Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia and went on to complete his family practice residency at Baylor College of Medicine. He comes to Baylor Plano from Family Medical Center at Garland where he served as a family practice physician since 1981.
In his new role Dr. Levy will focus on palliative care, an area of medicine that often deals with complex medical, psychosocial and spiritual issues in patients with life limiting circumstances. The primary mission of the palliative care program at Baylor Plano is to provide symptom burden relief to patients and to assist with advanced planning or direction. Palliative care is different from hospice care in that patients are often continuing active treatment with disease suppression as the goal. He will work with the primary care team and the subspecialty team on a referral basis to help improve the physical, psychosocial and spiritual symptoms associated with advanced illness.
“With Dr. Levy joining the Baylor Plano team we will be able to enhance the inpatient palliative care support we currently provide our patients and offer our patients extended outpatient palliative care consultations,” said Jerri Garison, president, Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano.
Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano is a 160-bed acute care hospital committed to serving North Texas residents with personalized care and advanced technology on a beautiful campus with hotel-like amenities and all private rooms. Services at the not-for-profit, fully-accredited facility include treatment for advanced spine deformities at the Baylor Scoliosis Center, neurosciences, orthopedics, medical and radiation oncology, surgical weight loss, women’s services, gynecology, urology, gastroenterology, pulmonary medicine, pain management, diabetes management and more. Patients have access to digital imaging onsite at Baylor Plano, the Baylor Diagnostic Imaging Center at Craig Ranch, an outpatient department of Baylor Plano and the Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano Elizabeth Jekot, MD Breast Imaging Center. The hospital is the first in North Dallas and Collin County to offer minimally invasive robotic surgery for procedures through the FDA-approved da Vinci® S Surgical System. Baylor Regional Medical Center at Plano ranks fourth on U.S. News & World Report's first-ever Best Hospitals metro area ranking for the Dallas/Fort Worth area and was named a top performer by The joint Commission. Baylor Plano is also a 2010 recipient of the Texas Award for Performance Excellence and houses an Accredited Community Hospital Comprehensive Cancer Program by the American College of Surgeons Commissions on Cancer. Baylor Plano is the first hospital in Collin County to be accredited by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers. Jerri Garison is president of Baylor Plano. For more information, or a physician referral, call toll free 1-800-4-BAYLOR or log onto www.BaylorHealth.com/Plano.
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