About Us

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown is a surgically focused specialty hospital that serves all people through exemplary health care and community service. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown’s mission is:

“to treat each and every one of our patients, and their families, as if they were our own family member.
Each patient, each family, each and every time”.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown is a joint venture between Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH), United Surgical Partners International, and local physicians. Baylor Scott & White Health and United Surgical Partners International have created this exceptional health care hospital and the ability to provide first-class surgical services by partnering with the most talented physicians, medical and hospital staff in the area. We are proud that many of our physicians have chosen to have ownership in this hospital. Their ownership enables them to have a voice in the administration and policies of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown. The physician’s involvement ensures the highest quality of care for our patients. Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown meets the Federal definition of a physician-owned hospital. A list of the hospital’s physician owners is available upon request.

A Long History in Dallas

Mary Shiels Hospital provided service to the community for 47 years. It was founded by Mary Shiels who served as the business office manager for several eye, ear, nose and throat (EENT) surgeons who had offices near the Baylor University Medical Center at Dallas campus. In 1942, as the ENT practice dissolved, Mary Shiels offered to lease the building and re-open it as a hospital specializing in ENT surgical care. She borrowed $1,000 from a local bank and opened what would eventually become Mary Shiels Hospital.

At the time, Mary Shiels was a single working mother of two boys, Henry and Rob, the sole caregiver for her elderly parents, and one of very few professional women who owned their own business. In 1963, Mary Shiels used her home as collateral for a loan to purchase a plot of land on Lemmon Avenue on which Mary Shiels Hospital was built. She and one of her sons served as administrators of the hospital for decades.

Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Uptown Highlights:

• Opened as Mary Shiels in 1963 and re-opened as Baylor Medical Center at Uptown in 2011
• 63,000-square-feet facility green facility
• 7 operating rooms and 1 procedure room
• 24 beds to include 4 higher acuity beds with full telemetry monitoring
• 4 room emergency department