Office of Consumer Affairs Jennifer Coleman Senior Vice President 3500 Gaston Avenue Suite 150, Wadley Tower Dallas, Texas 75246 214.820.1900 214.820.6906 Fax

June 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