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1. Office of Consumer Affairs
Jennifer Coleman
Senior Vice President
3500 Gaston Avenue
Suite 150, Wadley Tower
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214.820.6906 FaxJune 7, 2013
Mr. John Thomas
Chief of Editorial Operations
Modern Healthcare
150 N. Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60601
Dear Mr. Thomas:
It is a privilege for me to nominate Joel T. Allison, President and Chief Executive Officer of
Baylor Health Care System (Baylor), for the Modern Healthcare 2013 Community Leadership
Award. Mr. Allison is as an outstanding advocate for the community and has dedicated his life to
serving and improving communities in North Texas. Mr. Allison’s career includes four decades
of health care leadership. He joined Baylor—a not-for-profit supporting organization reporting
more than 2.8 million patient encounters, $5.3 billion in total assets, $4.1 billion in total
operating revenue and $539 million in community benefit in fiscal year ending June 30, 2012—
in 1993, and served as the senior executive vice president and chief operating officer before
being promoted to president and CEO in 2000. While leading the system in these roles, Mr.
Allison’s contributions to his community have been a natural extension of his passion for people
and for improving the quality of life for others. Throughout his tenure, he has impacted lives by
exemplifying the Baylor values of integrity, servanthood, quality, innovation and stewardship
and by manifesting these values in initiatives that would make positive change for all people.
For example, Mr. Allison recognized the growing need for health care services in Southern
Dallas and initiated the creation of the Diabetes Health and Wellness Institute at Juanita J. Craft
Recreation Center (DHWI). Bringing together key people in the Southern Sector Health
Initiative, Mr. Allison led Baylor’s collaboration with the City of Dallas to establish the DHWI
with a goal of changing the health outcomes of this vulnerable population by making diabetes
management and prevention accessible and a natural part of life for this community. It was an
ambitious goal for a community struggling with the highest rates of disease in Dallas County; as
well as unemployment and lacking access to grocery stores and transportation. However, a year
over year survey of the DHWI’s members show nearly 50 percent achieved the optimal A1C
(blood glucose) level of less than 7 percent.
Similarly, Allison played a key role in developing Baylor’s Faith in Action Initiatives (FIAI), a
multifaceted service program that prepares Baylor employees for medical missions and
repurposes gently used or obsolete medical equipment and supplies to communities in need
around the world. In Baylor’s fiscal year ending June 30, 2012, FIAI donated more than
$130,000 in medical supplies and sponsored 43 Baylor clinical professionals to travel on mission
trips through the Fred Roach Mission Scholarship, a value of $39,000.

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In closing, it is my honor to nominate Mr. Allison for the Community Leadership Award as an
altruistic leader, advocate and servant who is worthy of this recognition. He is a gracious man
who goes above his daily responsibilities to seek ways he can serve the community and improve
the lives of others.
Sincerely,
Jennifer Coleman
Senior Vice President of Consumer Affairs
Baylor Health Care System