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Baylor Family Medicine Residency at Garland
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| $1 Million Endowment to Support Baylor Family Medicine Residency Program |
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| Generous gift will fund training of chief resident and new board certified family physicians |
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Contact: Susan Hall, 214-820-1817
Email: susanh@baylorhealth.edu
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(DALLAS, June 1, 2006) - A generous gift from local philanthropists, Linda and Mitch Hart, will fund the first endowed chair for a family medicine residency program in the Baylor Health Care System. The $1 million endowment will support the Perry E. Gross, M.D. Chair for Family Medicine which provides training for the chief resident of the Baylor Family Medicine Residency each year.
The Hart's established this endowment at the Baylor Health Care System Foundation to recognize Dr. Gross, a life-long friend and a distinguished family medicine physician practicing in Dallas for more than 50 years. Dr. Gross, who celebrated his 80th birthday in January, still actively practices at Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas where he served as chief of family practice from 1974 to 2000. He also served as chairman of the Baylor Dallas medical board in 1985.
"Perry Gross has mentored many family practice physicians in the community and beyond," Rowland K. Robinson, president of the Baylor Health Care System Foundation said. "We are honored to receive these funds from the Harts which allow us to publicly acknowledge Dr. Gross' contributions in this specialty."
The impact of this gift and the family medicine residency will be felt throughout the community. Eighty percent of the Baylor Family Medicine Residency graduates practice in North Texas communities.
"New graduate physicians will be able to go out into the community with the full spectrum of training and expertise needed to provide care from the newborn nursery to the nursing home," Leslie Tingle, M.D., medical director of the Baylor Family Medicine Residency program at Baylor Medical Center at Garland, said.
The broad-based training program, based on the Baylor Medical Center at Garland campus, uses the resources of the Baylor Health Care System and two family medicine group practices to help medical residents gain the clinical skills necessary for today's medicine. During the three-year program, residents learn to deliver safe, timely, efficient, effective and patient-centered care.
The Baylor Health Care System Foundation is a separately incorporated not-for-profit organization that raises and manages charitable funds to support Baylor Health Care System's mission of exemplary health care, education, research and community service. Since the Foundation was established in 1978, total assets have grown from $5 million to $235 million, which includes pledges and long-term investments. Support comes from nearly 9,000 active donors, including individuals, corporations and other foundations. Since 1978, the foundation has distributed $228 million to Baylor Health Care System.
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