Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - College Station

Allergy and immunology

Our allergists and immunology specialists help identify your allergy triggers and manage through a variety of treatment options to address your symptoms to common allergies, including:

• Allergies
• Allergic reactions to insect stings 
• Asthma
• Chronic cough
• Drug allergies
• Eczema (atopic dermatitis)
• Food allergies
• Hives (urticaria)
• Recurring infections
• Rhinitis

Back and neck care

Our spine doctors (specialized orthopedists) and physical and occupational therapists provide sophisticated surgical and non-surgical solutions for neck and lower back pain and conditions, including:

• Arthritis of the spine (osteoarthritis, rheumatoid)
• Bone spurs and overgrowths
• Degenerative disc disease (cervical, thoracic, lumbar)
• Herniated discs (cervical, thoracic, lumbar)
• Myofascial pain (inflammation of muscles and ligaments)
• Osteoporosis of the spine
• Pinched nerves
• Sciatica
• Spinal deformities (scoliosis, kyphosis)
• Spinal injuries
• Spinal stenosis (narrowing of spinal canal)
• Spine trauma or fractures
• Spine tumors

Cancer care

Our goal is to give you and your family the physical, emotional and spiritual support you need during your cancer journey.

To help care for you, we provide:

• Treatment for all types of cancer
• Education and support programs
• Research and clinical trials
• Screening and prevention
• Genetic counseling
• Support services including nutrition, pastoral care and social work

Cosmetic and plastic surgery

Cosmetic surgery includes everything from body lifts to breast augmentation to liposuction. These procedures can be nonsurgical or surgical and reshape normal structures of the body to improve appearance. We work with you to help determine the right procedure for you based on your unique needs and circumstances, and your privacy is always a priority.

Reconstructive surgery is performed on parts of the body caused by congenital defects, developmental abnormalities, trauma, infection, tumors or disease. It is generally performed to improve functions but may also be done to approximate a normal appearance.

Critical and intensive care

Our critical and intensive care specialists treat a wide variety of life-threatening injuries, illnesses and heart issues through surgical treatments and interventions, medication and life support in specialized care units in our hospitals, including:

• Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
• Cardiothoracic Intensive Care Unit (CTICU)
• Medical Intensive Care Unit (MICU)
• Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
• Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU)
• Surgical Trauma Intensive Care Unit (STICU)

Dermatology

Our dermatologists diagnose, manage, and treat skin, hair, and nail diseases and disorders, including:

• Acne
• Actinic keratosis
• Dermatitis
• Eczema
• Psoriasis
• Rosacea
• Skin cancer
• Skin infections
• Warts

Diabetes care

Our comprehensive approach to diabetes care is committed to ongoing research, advanced treatment and development of management programs, specialized centers and collaborative care teams of specialists who provide services, including:

• Cardiology and pulmonology for heart and lung care
• Neuroscience for care of the nervous system 
• Nephrology for kidney care
• Ophthalmology to prevent vision loss
• Orthopedics, physical medicine, and rehabilitation
• Podiatry

Digestive diseases

Our gastroenterologists and digestive disease specialists can help you, providing a full spectrum of care for patients with concerns involving the esophagus, stomach, small bowel, colon, rectum, gallbladder, pancreas, and liver.

Example services and procedures we offer include:

• Abdominal and endoscopic ultrasound
• Colonoscopy
• Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
• Fecal transplant
• Evaluation of liver transplant candidates
• Percutaneous liver biopsy
• Placement of external feeding tubes (gastrostomy)
• Treatment of pancreatic diseases

Common digestive diseases we treat include:

• Acid reflux
• Crohn's disease
• Colon polyps
• Liver diseases
• C. diff
• Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD)
• Heartburn
• Hepatitis
• Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
• Swallowing disorders

Ear, nose and throat

Our otolaryngologists or ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialists diagnose, manage, and treat a variety of conditions affecting parts and soft tissues of the head and neck, including:

• Acute and chronic infections of the external middle and inner ear 
• Allergies
• Balancing disorders 
• Benign and malignant tumors of the temporal bone ear canal and auricle 
• Cholesteatoma
• Cold
• Deafness
• Influenza
• Nasal polyps
• Nasal septum issues
• Otosclerosis
• Sleep apnea
• Snoring
• Stenosis of the ear canal
• Tumors of the temporal bone and base of the skull
• Vertigo/dysequilibrium

Emergency care

Our emergency care services are available 24 hours a day, seven days a week and treat major emergency conditions, including:

• Allergic reaction (hives, swelling)
• Animal, snake, or human bites 
• Broken bones 
• Blue or purple color to lips, skin, or nail beds 
• Chest or stomach pain or pressure 
• Coughing up blood
• Difficulty breathing 
• Fainting
• Heart attack
• Puncture wounds 
• Seizure
• Severe bleeding or bleeding that does not stop with direct pressure
• Severe burns or burns on the face 
• Severe pain or loss of motion or sensation anywhere in the body
• Shortness of breath
• Stroke
• Sudden dizziness, weakness, or change in vision
• Trauma
• Trouble breathing, swallowing or wheezing 

If you are experiencing a medical emergency, call 911 immediately or go to the nearest emergency room (please do not drive yourself).

Endocrinology

Our endocrinologists provide consultation, diagnosis, and management of endocrine and metabolic diseases. Endocrine disorders involve the body's over or underproduction of certain hormones, while metabolic disorders affect the body's ability to process certain nutrients and vitamins.

Conditions we treat include, but not limited to:

• Diabetes
• High blood cholesterol and triglycerides
• Obesity
• Osteoporosis
• Ovarian disorder, such as polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS)
• Parathyroid gland disorders
• Pituitary and adrenal disorders
• Thyroid gland disorders

Some procedures and tests we offer include:

• Bone density testing
• Continuous glucose monitoring
• Insulin pump therapy
• Thyroid fine needle biopsies and ultrasound

Eye care

Our ophthalmologists and optometrists diagnose, manage, and innovatively treat routine and specialty eye conditions and diseases, including:

• Age-related macular degeneration (AMD)
• Cataracts
• Corneal diseases
• Diabetic retinopathy
• Glaucoma
• Refractive errors (astigmatisms, farsightedness, and nearsightedness)
• Retinal diseases

Foot care

Our podiatrists and foot care specialists diagnose, evaluate and innovatively treat a wide range of conditions that affect the foot, toes, and toenails, including:

• Ankle sprains
• Athlete's foot
• Bunions
• Flat feet
• Fractures
• Hammertoes
• Heel pain
• Infections
• Ingrown nails
• Neuromas
• Tendon injuries and ruptures
• Wounds 

Genetics

At Baylor Scott & White Health, we offer genetic services to help you understand your genetic risk for certain conditions, such as cancer and heart disease, and tailor treatments based on your unique needs.

Heart and vascular

Our team of cardiologists, surgeons, interventional radiologists on the medical staff and healthcare professionals works together to provide you quality care for a range of heart and vascular conditions.

We offer a comprehensive program that includes heart disease prevention, advanced diagnosis and treatment options and continued care and support for patients living with heart and vascular conditions.

Our services include:

• Cardiac rehabilitation
• Cardiology
• Cardiothoracic surgery and transcatheter aortic valve replacement (TAVR)
• Electrophysiology
• Heart failure
• Left atrial appendage occlusion (LAAO)
• Vascular care

Hematology

Our hematologists specialize in the diagnosis, evaluation, and treatment of blood disease and disorders, including:

• Anemia
• Benign monoclonal gammopathy
• Bleeding
• Coagulopathies
• Clotting problems
• Erythrocytosis
• Infection
• Leukocytosis
• Lymphohistiocytic disorders
• Pancytopenia
• Sickle cell disease
• Thrombocytosis
• Thrombocytopenia
• von Willebrand disease

Imaging and radiology

Advanced imaging technology provides clearer pictures for radiologists and other specialty physicians on the medical staff to provide a more accurate diagnosis that leads to a customized treatment plan, if needed, to start the healing process.

Services may* include:

• Arthrography
• Bone density measurement
• Breast imaging
• CT scan (including low-dose lung cancer CT screening)
• Interventional radiology
• MRI
• Myelogram
• Nuclear medicine (Nuclear PET scan, radiofrequency ablation, I-131 therapy for hyperthyroidism and thyroid cancer)
• Radioimmunotherapy
• Ultrasound
• Virtual colonoscopy
• X-ray and fluoroscopy

* Please call this location for particular outpatient services. Typically, your doctor’s office will refer you to us if we have the imaging service you need.

Infectious diseases

Our infectious disease specialists diagnose, manage, study, and innovatively treat diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi, including:

• Bacteremia/sepsis
• Bone and joint infections
• Central nervous system infections
• Common cold
• COVID-19
• Endocarditis and endovascular infections
• Fever of unknown origin (FUO)
• Flu
• Fungal infections
• Gastrointestinal infections
• HIV/AIDS and associated opportunistic infections
• Infections in immunocompromised patients (transplant, cancer chemotherapy, etc.)
• Lyme disease
• Malaria
• Meningitis
• Mycobacterial infections
• Skin and soft tissue infections
• Tuberculosis
• West Nile virus
• Whooping cough

Inpatient medicine and hospitalists

Our hospitalists or inpatient medicine physicians provide care during your full stay at the hospital starting upon your hospital admission and coordinate with your primary care physician and helps with your discharge.

Labor and delivery

Our compassionate healthcare team provides medical and surgical support to patients who are in the process of expanding their family through the miracle of childbirth.

Mammogram and breast imaging

Our imaging centers provide potentially life-saving 2D and 3D mammograms and clinical breast exams to screen for breast cancer and other conditions that impact women and refer to specialty treatments and services, including:

• Breast calcifications
• Breast cysts
• Breast lumps
• Breast nipple discharge
• Breast pain
• Dense breasts

Nephrology

Our nephrologists and kidney care specialists diagnose, manage, and innovatively treat a variety of conditions affecting the kidneys, including:

• Abnormal urinalysis
• Acute kidney injury
• Amyloidosis
• Diabetic renal disease
• Electrolyte disorders
• Glomerulonephritis
• Interstitial nephritis
• Kidney cancer
• Kidney failure
• Kidney infections
• Kidney stones
• Obstructive/reflux nephropathy
• Polycystic kidney disease
• Recurrent urinary tract infections
• Renal artery stenosis
• Severe or difficult to control hypertension

Neuroscience

Our neurologists, neuroradiologists and neurosurgeons study, diagnose, and innovatively treat through advanced technologies to improve quality of life most brain and spine conditions, disorders and injuries, including:

• Alzheimer's Disease
• Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS)
• Brain aneurysm
• Brain and spine tumors
• Concussion
• Dementia
• Epilepsy
• Essential tremors
• Headache treatment
• Hydrocephalus
• Movement disorders
• Multiple sclerosis
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Parkinson's Disease
• Pituitary tumors
• Stroke care
• Skull base tumors
• Traumatic brain injury

Occupational and environmental medicine

Our occupational and environmental medicine specialists reduce work-related disability through accident prevention and to help injured employees return to full work capacity through services, including:

• Audiograms
• Drug and alcohol screening
• Employee physicals
• Pulmonary function testing
• Surveillance physicals
• Travel immunizations
• X-ray and injury treatment

Orthopedics

Baylor Scott & White is your single resource for musculoskeletal disease, joint pain, traumatic and sports-related injuries and other orthopedic conditions.

To help care for you, we provide:

• Hand, elbow, wrist surgery
• Joint replacement
• Neck, back, spine surgery
• Orthopedic surgery

Pain management

Our pain management specialists provide many options for comprehensive and advanced therapy and treatments focused on managing sensory and emotional impacts and restoring function brought on by different types and degrees of pain, including:

• Chronic lower back pain
• Chronic pain
• Fibromyalgia
• Low back pain
• Neck pain
• Nonspecific back pain
• Reflex sympathetic dystrophy
• Sciatic nerve pain

Pediatrics

Our pediatricians tailor care, services, and treatments to children of all ages ranging from newborns to teens to meet the healthcare needs of your entire family, including:

• General pediatric care
• Immunizations
• Infant and childhood care classes and support
• School physicals
• Well child exams

Pulmonology

Our pulmonologists and lung care specialists study, diagnose, and innovatively treat with advanced technology and rehabilitation offerings acute and chronic respiratory and pulmonary disorders of the lungs, airways and chest, including:

• Asthma
• Acute and chronic pulmonary embolism
• Bronchiectasis
• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
• Cystic fibrosis
• Emphysema
• Fungal infections of the lung 
• Granulomatous lung diseases
• Hepatopulmonary syndrome
• Interstitial lung disease
• Lung cancer
• Lung transplantation 
• Pulmonary fibrosis
• Pulmonary vascular disease 
• Pulmonary hypertension
• Pleurisy
• Pneumonia
• Sarcoidosis
• Sleep disorders
• Smoking cessation
• Tuberculosis
• Tuberculous and nontuberculous mycobacterial pulmonary disease

Rehabilitation and physical therapy

Our team of physicians and therapists are dedicated to helping patients find the best way back through nonsurgical therapies from all types of injuries, illness, and acute and chronic conditions, including but not limited to:

• Musculoskeletal disorders
• Neurologic disorders and injuries
• Pediatric neurological and developmental disorders
• Post-operative care
• Sports injuries

Rheumatology

Our rheumatologists study, diagnose, and innovatively treat arthritis and other joint, muscle and bone diseases, including:

• Arthralgias and myalgias
• Connective tissue disorders
• Fibromyalgia
• Gout
• Lupus
• Osteoarthritis
• Polymyalgia rheumatic
• Polymyositis
• Psoriatic arthritis
• Rheumatoid arthritis (including juvenile rheumatoid arthritis)
• Sarcoid
• Scleroderma/CREST syndrome
• Sjogren's syndrome
• Tendonitis
• Vasculitis

Sleep disorders

Our sleep program is dedicated to alleviating symptoms and improve sleep patterns and daily life by offering a full range of innovative diagnostic and treatment procedures to treat a variety of sleep disorders, including:

• Central sleep apnea
• Insomnia
• Narcolepsy
• Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
• Parasomnias
• Pediatric sleep disorders
• Periodic limb movements
• Restless leg syndrome
• Snoring

Surgical services

Our surgeons offer pioneering innovations and advanced surgical offerings and services backed by research-based enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) to support patient outcomes, including: 

• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Colon and rectal surgery
• Dentistry/oral and maxillofacial surgery
• General surgery
• Gynecological surgery
• Head and neck surgery
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmic surgery
• Orthopedic surgery
• Pediatric surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Podiatric medicine and surgery
• Robotic surgery
• Surgical oncology 
• Transplant surgery
• Urologic surgery
• Vascular surgery
• Weight-loss surgery

Urology

Our urologists diagnose, provide essential cancer screenings, and treat conditions and concerns related to the urinary tract and male reproductive organs, including but not limited to:

Urinary-related:

• Bladder disorders and cancer
• Inability to control urination
• Kidney disorders (including kidney stones)
• Urethral disorders

Related to male reproductive organs:

• Erectile dysfunction
• Infertility
• Penile disorders and cancer
• Prostate disorders and cancer
• Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)
• Undescended testicles (cryptorchidism)

Weight management and surgery

Surgery is a somewhat radical step to achieve weight loss, but has been shown to be highly effective to bring about real, lasting weight loss. In fact, its been shown to be much more successful than behavioral changes (diet, exercise), medications, or any combination, for weight loss.

Women's health

From screening for common conditions that affect women to advanced medical and surgical care, the healthcare providers at Baylor Scott & White provide the comprehensive services you need as a woman.

Services include:

• Breast surgery
• Gynecological surgery
• Gynecology
• Hormone replacement therapy

Concierge and information desk

Visitor information/concierge desks are located in the main entrance of the medical center, where staff can assist you with general information, wayfinding and local eateries/hotel listings.

Hours

• Monday through Friday: 6:30 AM - 5:00 PM

Dining options

Cafeteria

The cafeteria is located on the first floor to the right of the main entrance and features a full range of food and beverage items.

Hours

• Monday-Friday: 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM
• Saturday-Sunday: 6:30-10:00 AM; 11:00 AM - 2:00 PM

Vending machines

Vending machines with snacks and sodas are located just by labor and delivery and in the emergency department lobby and are available 24 hours a day.

Estimate your cost of care

Baylor Scott & White Health is an advocate for greater healthcare pricing transparency and patient affordability. We provide a self-service price estimation tool to help you obtain accurate out-of-pocket expense estimates, along with other helpful resources to help you make more informed financial choices about your care.

Gift shop

The gift shop is located on the first floor next to the cafeteria.

Phone

• 979.207.0121

Hours

• Monday-Friday: 9:30 AM - 4:30 PM

The shop sells inspirational gifts, baby items, everyday items, lotions, candles, free gift wrapping, snacks and soft drinks.

Accepts cash and/or credit cards.

Medical records

You can request copies of your medical records by completing an Authorization for Release of Information form and returning to the facility at which you received care.

Nursing accomplishments

Our nurses are dedicated to the care of a diverse community of patients. As members of our front line care team, they take pride in seeking opportunities to provide a higher level of care.

Patient greetings

Brighten the day of a patient with an eGreeting—a personal message hand-delivered to your loved one.

Recognize an employee

Because our staff cares so deeply for those we help, there are those who often go beyond the call to provide great care.

Spiritual care

Our chapel is located on the first floor of the hospital between the main entrance and ER and is open 24 hours/7 days a week.

Chaplains are available Monday through Friday from 5:00 AM - 5:00 PM only. You may call us at 979.207.0517 or use the TV in the patient's room to contact the chaplain.

Outside of these hours please let your nurse know of your need in order for an on call chaplain to be contacted.

Visitor guidelines

Visits from relatives and friends can play an important part in your recovery; however, they can also be tiring. It is in your best interest that you get all of the rest that you can while in the hospital. If you feel uncomfortable asking people to limit their visits, you might ask a family member or friend to coordinate your visits for you. We do have some requests of our visitors:

• Try to keep visits brief and to only two people at any given time.
• Please have an adult accompany any children under 12 and do not leave them unattended.
• Wash your hands before and after your visit so you don't spread germs to the patient.
• If you have a cold, flu or other contagious disease please wait until you are well for your visit.
• Please be respectful of other patients and keep noise to a minimum.
• If you want to bring food to a patient, please check with the nursing staff. Some diets are restricted.
• Visitors may not smoke on campus.
• Visitors may be asked to leave the room during tests or treatments or when the doctor or nurse needs to see the patient.

Visitor lounges

There are designated lounges for visitors on patient floors. Specific areas have been designated for guests in other areas. If you are in a large group, we ask for your consideration of other patients’ families when seating is limited. Wireless laptops can be used in most areas by connecting to our visitor wireless network. Charging stations and outlets are also available in select lounge areas.

The use of wireless communication devices, such as cell phones, notebooks and laptops, can interfere with medical equipment and is restricted in all patient care areas. Please restrict your use of these devices to visitor lounges and non-patient care areas.

Volunteer with us

We rely on our generous volunteers to provide several special services. Every volunteer enhances the patient experience in some way by supporting our culture of customer service. Join the ranks of our volunteers to get involved and make a difference.