The baptist hospitals of southeast texas (bhset) are not-for-profit, community-owned, health care facilities with spiritual values, dedicated to providing high quality health services and sacred work, in a christian environment.
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We have one primary service activity and that is to provide high quality health services to the southeast texas community. Patient service revenue for the beaumont and orange facilities includes both inpatient and outpatient routine and ancillary revenue. For over sixty years, bhset has been dedicated to providing quality health services in a christian environment. Our partners in caring - our physicians, our nurses and staff - practice a philosophy that inspires an environment of teamwork, respect, encouragement, opportunity and trust. Our efforts continue each day as we strive to offer newer and better programs, services and technologies for the members of our community. With a commitment to exceed customer expectations through distinguished quality, safety, customer service, spiritual values, operational excellence and innovation in meeting the healthcare needs of those being serviced, plans for additional services became a reality. Cancer services for southeast texas began in 1990 when the ben and julie rogers cancer institute was dedicated to providing outpatient chemotherapy as well as inpatient and outpatient radiation therapy services. Each year advancements continue in growth and improvements including construction of the new baptist beaumont hospital, which include approximately 160,000 square feet to the existing east campus. The innovative addition would include additional intensive care and telemetry rooms and a new emergency department that increased the number of patents who can be served to 90,000 per year. The new construction also included new surgery suites, endoscopy, catheterization labs, imaging department, outpatient holding area, hospital cafeteria, chapel, pharmacy, and gift shop. Another 52,000 square feet of renovations were completed providing new gastrointestinal labs, a new laboratory, rehabilitation unit, pulmonary functions lab and day surgery units. With the completion of the "new city of healing" in 2003, the expansion of services was at the heart of the organization. Focusing on the smallest members of the community, the children's unit at baptist beaumont hospital originated - proving caring for kids is just the right size at baptist beaumont hospital. Meeting the unique needs of children, the first certified child life specialist was added to help children from infants to teens and their families cope with a hospital experience. The child life specialist provides emotional and developmental support while giving honest information geared to a child's level of understanding and, of course, plenty of child's play! With over 40 million people feeling exhausted because they are experiencing a sleep disorder, baptist beaumont hospital proudly announced the sleep center located at the main campus. Chronic sleep disorders can disturb family life, affect productivity at work and even result in death. The sleep center was established to provide comprehensive care to patients who are experiencing sleep problems. Some of the most common disorders include: sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless leg syndrome and insomnia. Baptist beaumont hospital's wound healing and bariatric center provides comprehensive, outpatient wound care services, including hyperbaric oxygen therapy. The center utilizes a multidisciplinary approach to wound care by coordinating the efforts of multiple specialties trained to treat patients with chronic or non-healing wounds. The center is staffed by physicians in the following specialties: family medicine, infectious disease, podiatry, and thoracic/vascular surgery. The certified program is compliant with the most stringent standards of performance. By utilizing the rigorous standards and clinical practice guidelines, superior care is provided to the community. The wound healing and bariatric center has received the gold seal of approval in disease state management from the joint commission on accreditation of hospital organizations. Over the next few years, additional progr