An In-Depth Look into the Healthcare System
Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH)
A Leading, Integrated Non-Profit Health System with Scale, Innovation, and a Culture of Mission-Driven Care
Your employer is a powerhouse system offering broad reach, deep resources, and the stability of a major health network — but structured to support physician autonomy, quality work, and long-term growth.
System at a Glance
- BSWH is the largest non-profit health system in Texas and among the largest in the U.S.
- The system includes 52 hospitals (owned, operated, joint-ventured, or affiliated) and over 1,300 total care-delivery sites including hospitals, clinics, imaging centers, urgent care, surgical centers, retail pharmacies, wellness/fitness centers and more.
- Annual scale: ~13.5 million patient encounters; ~208,700 hospital admissions; more than 31,000 babies born; ~900,000 emergency-department visits; 4.3 million outpatient registrations.
- The system has more than 7,200 active physicians and approximately 57,000 total employees as of 2024.
Mission, Culture & Values
- BSWH traces its roots to a Christian ministry of healing. Its stated mission is to “promote the well-being of all individuals, families and communities.”
- The system’s vision is “Empowering you to live well.”
- Core values: Faithful service, continuous improvement, collaboration, and making meaningful impact.
- Because BSWH is non-profit, all surplus — rather than being distributed to shareholders — is reinvested into community care, services, expansion, and quality initiatives.
Scale, Reach & Services
With its breadth of facilities and care settings, BSWH offers a true full-spectrum healthcare network — everything from primary care and urgent care clinics to quaternary academic centers — supporting a wide range of services including imaging, surgery, inpatient, outpatient, rehabilitation, emergency, specialty, and wellness services.
This diversity gives you — as a remote radiologist — stable access to studies from across the network, and predictable referral patterns. It also means the system is large and stable enough to invest in IT infrastructure, PACS, telemedicine, staffing support, and administrative oversight — all of which support remote radiology workflows.
Academic, Research & Innovation Engagement
- BSWH retains strong academic and research components alongside its clinical operations:
- Some hospitals within the system (e.g., Baylor University Medical Center) function as academic medical centers, with training programs, research activity, and advanced tertiary/quaternary care.
- The system also includes the Baylor Scott & White Research Institute — which supports ongoing research across specialties.
- BSWH has deeply invested in a “learning health system” model: quality improvement systems, data-driven care pathways, and centralized oversight to ensure continuous improvement and high standards across facilities.
That means, even in a primarily outpatient radiology role, you are supported by a system with robust institutional quality controls, peer networks, and a commitment to long-term clinical excellence.
Why This Is a Strong Home for Your Remote Radiology Role
- Stability through scale: The wide network of hospitals, clinics, and imaging centers helps ensure consistent study volume and referral patterns — reducing the risk of volume swings common in smaller private practices.
- Support infrastructure: Dedicated PACS administrators, IT support, integrated EMR systems, and a centralized radiology group all help ensure your home-workstation setup is stable, reliable, and professionally backed.
- Physician-centered culture: As a non-profit committed to community care rather than shareholder returns, BSWH tends to prioritize physician wellbeing, quality over volume, and sustainable growth over aggressive production targets (which aligns with the role structure you will join).
- Opportunities for growth and collaboration: With academic and research arms, a large physician community, and many specialties under one umbrella, there is potential for interdisciplinary collaboration, future subspecialty involvement (if desired), and upward mobility inside the system.
- Community and mission alignment: If you value working in a system that reinvests in communities, supports wide access to care, and maintains values around service and impact — BSWH offers that foundational mission orientation.