ANCC Magnet® Journey
In the Baylor Scott & White Health Greater Austin Region, our nurses are dedicated to living our organization’s mission of promoting the well-being of all individuals, families, and communities. Nurses care for our patients in a variety of care settings, both inpatient and ambulatory. We serve a wide geographic area from Georgetown south to Buda and from Taylor west to Marble Falls.
The Greater Austin Region is on the ANCC Magnet Journey to Excellence. The following are some of the ways our nurses exemplify our commitment to consistent, compassionate, and excellent care.
Transformational leadership
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Austin
- The Joint Commission Primary Stroke Designation
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Buda
- Perioperative Services 1st in the System for Patient Experience
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Pflugerville
- Expansion project ongoing, adding more ED beds, Nuclear Medicine, Cath Lab/IR, and a new Medical Office Building.
- Ranked as the #2 most socially responsible acute care hospital in the US and #1 in Texas, per the Lown Institute
- Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade A
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Marble Falls
- Achieved Medicare 5 Star rating for the 5th consecutive year
- Top employee engagement in the System
- Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade A
- The Chartis Center for Rural Health (CCRH)
- CCRH Performance Leadership Award: Outcomes, 2022-2024
- CCRH Top 100 Rural & Community Hospitals, 2022
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
- Built a new tower… adding six ED bays, new MRI unit
- Successful Joint Commission survey for Primary Stroke Center designation
- Leading the system on readmission performance compared to goal
- Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grade B
- One of only four Austin-area hospitals ranked in Newsweek’s Top 400 US Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor
- Finalist for the 2024 Peregrine Award for Trauma Innovation
- The Chartis Center for Rural Health (CCRH)
- CCRH Performance Leadership Award: Patient Perspective, 2024
- CCRH Performance Leadership Award: Outcomes, 2022
Exemplary professional practice
U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Austin
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Buda
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
- USNWR Best Regional Hospitals: Austin, 2021-2022
- USNWR Best Regional Hospitals: Recognized in Hill Country, 2021-2022
- USNWR Best Regional Hospitals: Texas, 2021-2022
U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals, High Performing Conditions
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Austin: pneumonia
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Buda: pneumonia
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Lakeway
- 2024-2025: Colon Cancer Surgery
- 2023: COPD
- 2021-2025: pneumonia
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Marble Falls
- 2021-2023, 2024: pneumonia
- 2023-2024: Adult Specialty – Pulmonology & Lung Surgery
- 2021-2023: hip fracture
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Pflugerville: pneumonia
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
- Colon Cancer Surgery, 2024-2025
- Back Surgery (Spinal Fusion), 2021-2222
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock and Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Lakeway:
- Aortic Valve Surgery
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Heart Attack
- Kidney Failure
- Pneumonia
- Stroke
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor: pneumonia
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Austin
- Zero Preventable Harm for CLABSI, MRSA, SSI, and C-Diff Infection since opening in 2020
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Buda
- PET/CT scanner go-live March 2024
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Lakeway
- New Epilepsy Monitoring Unit June 2024
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Silver Plus for Coronary Artery Disease/STEMI Receiving
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Stroke Award
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Marble Falls
- Redesignated Texas 10 Step Program
- Achieved neonatal redesignation
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Stroke Award
- Stroke Honor Roll Elite
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Round Rock
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Stroke Award
- Stroke Honor Roll Elite
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Coronary Artery Disease STEMI Receiving Award
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- Completed 500th TAVR case in January 2025
- The first hospital in Austin market to perform a transcatheter tricuspid valve replacement. Making us one of only three facilities in Texas to perform the procedure.
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Pflugerville
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Stroke Award
- Type 2 Diabetes Honor Roll
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Gold Plus Stroke Award
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Taylor
- AHA Get with the Guidelines Rural Stroke Silver award
- The Joint Commission Stroke Ready Designation
Structural empowerment
- BSN rate: 51.17%
- Certification rate: 84.02%
New Knowledge, Innovation, and Improvements
- Spanish 5 P’s Communication Tool: Enhancing Patient Care-Presented by Amado Gallegos, BSN, RN, Valerie Cantu, BSN, RN, and Katrina Villanueva, BSN, RN
- Supplementation in Newborns with Hyperbilirubinemia-Presented by Heather Bodden, BSN, RN, RNC-OB, C-EFM
- Building the Future of Nursing: Development of a Student Nurse Tech Apprenticeship Program-Presented by Debra Brigance, MSN, RN, NPD-BC
- Innovation in Alternate Education: Strategies through Virtual Reality Simulation in Nursing Professional Development-Presented by Josh Vavra, MSN, RN, CCRN and Adam Benner, MSN, RN
- Fast Births, Ready Nurses: Simulation Training for Emergency Nurses-Presented by Jamie Clemons, DNP, RN, CEN
- Thriving Through Transition: Innovative Resilience Training for New Nurses-Presented by Christy Taylor, DNP, RN, CEN
- Supporting the Future: Student Nurse Transition Support-Presented by Jamie Clemons, DNP, RN, CEN and Beverly Walker, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC
- Enhancing Graduate Nurse NCLEX-RN First-Time Pass Rates with Testing Strategies-Presented by Christy Taylor, DNP, RN, CEN
- Creative Loop Closure & Pivot Tables: PIPS Tips and Tricks-Presented by Gay Kurtz, MSN, RN, CNL, CEN
- Scrubbing In: LVN Surgical Tech Fellowship-Presented by Beverly Walker, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC
- Leaning into Technology to Prevent Falls-Presented by Joy Huang, MSN, RN, NI-BC, NEA-BC
- Voices of Shared Governance: Core Themes from a Shared Decision-Making Restructure-Presented by Delia Abbott, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC, Rebecca Miller, PhD, MHSA, RN, NE-BC, Melissa Schnelting, BSN, RN, and Beverly Walker, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC
- Breaking DNP and PhD Barriers to Successful Practice-Presented by Delia Abbott, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, NPD-BC and Rebecca Miller, PhD, MHSA, RN, NE-BC
- From Research to Reality: Nurse Scientists Driving Healthcare Transformation-Presented by Rebecca Miller, PhD, MHSA, RN, NE-BC, and other BSWH Nurse Scientists