{"id":337429,"date":"2026-06-15T20:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337429\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:40:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:40:18","slug":"baylor-scott-and-white-at-austin-tech-ridge-expands-non-cancerous-hematology-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/337429\/","title":{"rendered":"Baylor Scott and White at Austin Tech Ridge expands non-cancerous hematology services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bswphysicaltherapy.com\/contact\/find-a-location\/tx\/austin\/austin-tech-ridge-i35\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Scott and White &#8211; Austin Tech Ridge<\/a> expanded its non-cancerous hematology services in February to make benign hematology services more accessible to patients in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The overview<\/p>\n<p>These treatments include iron infusions, B12 injections, therapeutic phlebotomies and other services that help those with benign hematological disorders, or non-cancerous blood conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Previously, these treatments were only available at Baylor Scott and White\u2019s Round Rock location, yet due to the large volume of chemotherapy patients, many patients were waiting months for benign hematology treatments, as chemotherapy can be long infusions, said Dr. Vinod Kondragunta, oncologist at Baylor Scott and White.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople can get very severely anemic while they\u2019re waiting for their iron transfusions,\u201d Dr. Kondragunta said. \u201cThe last thing we want is for people to have to resort to going to the emergency room to get blood transfusions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p>Treatments are currently offered at the Tech Ridge clinic on Mondays and Wednesdays, yet Dr. Kondragunta said this could soon be increased to Thursdays as well due to demand.<\/p>\n<p>What they&#8217;re saying<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPatients are telling me, \u2018I\u2019m so glad you opened up this clinic because I was told I couldn&#8217;t get an appointment until July,\u2019\u201d Dr. Kondragunta said. \u201cWe\u2019re trying to improve people\u2019s quality of life by getting them treatments as soon as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Baylor Scott and White &#8211; Austin Tech Ridge expanded its non-cancerous hematology services in February to make benign&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,120404,79502,120407,120406,1604,1562,120405,251],"class_list":["post-337429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-austin-tech-ridge","tag-baylor-scott-and-white","tag-benign-hematology","tag-blood-transfusion","tag-community-impact","tag-health-care","tag-hematology","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}