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Medical City Frisco’s Newest Addition

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Medical City Frisco plans to build a $91 million patient building that will add 36 patient care beds to the hospital.

The building will add 118,481 square feet to the facility, bringing the facility’s total bed count to 97. It will have an entrance on Frisco’s Main Street and is being constructed to allow for natural light and include comfortable furnishings, large patient rooms, a spacious waiting area, and 300 parking spaces. Construction is scheduled to be completed in December 2022.

The development is part of Medical City Healthcare’s five-year, $1.1 billion investment in expanding hospitals, adding service lines, building new facilities, and advancing technology systemwide. It comes on the heels of another recent renovation at its Frisco hospital.

Prior to the pandemic, Medical City Healthcare’s  Frisco hospital saw 3,900 admissions and 15,000 emergency room visits. The hospital now has 11 operating rooms, a biplane cardiac catheterization lab, 61 patient rooms, and office space, following the completion of a $54 million, 150,000 square-foot medical office building that opened in June.

The hospital’s growth has mirrored the larger community. Over the last 10 years, Frisco has grown over 70 percent, outpacing any other city in the nation. The city’s population is more than 200,000 people in 2020, an increase from the roughly 117,000 people reported in 2010. It has been ranked America’s fastest growing city and No. 1 in job growth at different points throughout the last decade.

Most of the major health systems have built hospitals along the Dallas North Tollway in Frisco, including Texas Health, Baylor Scott & White, Scottish Rite, Children’s Health, Cook Children’s, and UT Southwestern.

“We are proud to be part of, and continue to invest in, the Frisco community, which continues to grow at a phenomenal pace,” said Patrick Rohan, CEO of Medical City Frisco via release. “Anticipating future community needs helps keep our neighbors healthy and advances our mission to the care and improvement of human life.”

Source: D Magazine

Moving Away From The Mothership: Satellite Healthcare Campuses Embrace Multimillion-Dollar Expansion, Specialized Services

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When Texas Medical Center-headquartered healthcare systems began acquiring land outside of the Inner Loop, most secured more land than they initially built up.

Many of those satellite campuses are now under multimillion-dollar expansions as they increasingly stand on their own for specialized care rather than as feeder hospitals for the TMC.

Methodist West Campus (Photo Credit: Houston Methodist Houston)

“You cannot innovate from a space perspective in the Medical Center like you can in some of the new hospitals that are located away from the urban core,” Wolff Cos. Executive Vice President Carolyn Wolff Dorros said. “The suburban hospital expansion is transforming these facilities into mini medical centers.”

Swelling Up In The Suburbs

Nearing space capacity at the Texas Medical Center, hospitals turned to Houston’s booming submarkets — Sugar Land, The Woodlands and Katy — for expansion.

 Demand spiked due to the influx in residents, who increasingly prefer healthcare providers and services, from regular checkups to more complex concerns, closer to their home,” Colliers Senior Vice President Coy Davidson said. “There are no longer just feeder campuses for the mothership — the suburban campuses provide top-notch specialized care.”

Most healthcare procedures, excluding services like heart and organ transplants, will be offered at these centers. All of the expansions share one common thread: a desire to offer the same advanced quality service as the flagship hospitals in the Texas Medical Center.

Tracking The Expansion

Houston Methodist System is under construction on two hospital expansions in Sugar Land and The Woodlands. The Sugar Land hospital launched a $60M expansion project to improve its women’s health services in April. The plan includes constructing a three-story, 30,500 SF building and renovating the existing Sweetwater Pavilion. The facility has experienced an increase in patients from communities outside of Fort Bend County, including Waller, Austin, Brazoria, Wharton and Victoria, according to Houston Methodist Sugar Land Hospital CEO Chris Siebenaler.

“Fort Bend continues to be one of the fastest-growing counties in the U.S., which drives the demand for women’s health services,” Siebenaler said.

A rendering of the The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (Photo Credit: Courtesy of MD Anderson)

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center is opening a three-story, 208K SF building in The Woodlands. Serving as an extension of MD Anderson in The Woodlands, the outpatient clinic will feature similar treatment and supportive services, plus new diagnostic and screening services.

It is expected to welcome patients in the spring.  What specialized services are being built out is determined by the needs of the area. In Katy, the home of an eight-time state champion high school football team, Memorial Hermann is investing $15M to construct a 50K SF sports and medicine and human performance facility. The project will be on the Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital campus and provide targeted medical care and athletic training for professionals athletes, youth athletes and active adults.

“Another hospital expansion in Katy is providing a cost-saving solution for patients,” Dorros said.

Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, the first community hospital designed exclusively for children, opened Texas Children’s Urgent Center adjacent to its emergency room in September. Of the 12 clinics for TCH, this is the second to open steps away from one of its hospitals.

“Patients are allowed to come to either facility and be directed to the appropriate facility depending on the severity of the visit,” Dorros said. “Having both options can lower unnecessarily high hospital bills, shorten wait times and increase use of the appropriate healthcare options. That is such a better patient experience, Patients are getting the right care at the right time.”

Learn more about healthcare-related development opportunities at Bisnow’s National Healthcare South event at the InterContinental Houston Medical Center Feb. 27.

 

Source: Bisnow

Medical City Fort Worth’s New $65 Million Tower Expands ER, Intensive Care Unit

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Medical City Fort Worth will begin accepting patients in a new three-story, $65 million tower that expands its emergency services.

The facility includes a new emergency department and intensive care unit (PHOTO CREDIT: Medical City Fort Worth)

The 90,000-square-foot tower includes a 30-room emergency department, a 28-bed intensive care unit and a rooftop helipad for easier access to the ER.

Jyric Sims, CEO of Medical City Fort Worth, described the project as “a labor of love” that brings advanced technology to its emergency room. The expansion includes six pediatric care rooms, two trauma rooms and one room equipped for behavioral health patients.

The new tower, under construction since May 2017, will be connected by a skywalk over 9th Avenue to the hospital’s old building, which will remain open for other patient services such as surgeries and cancer treatments. The hospital is licensed for 320 beds.

Founded in 1976 as Medical Plaza Hospital, the hospital is part of Medical City Healthcare, one of the region’s largest health care providers. It operates 14 hospitals, seven off-campus emergency rooms and more than 50 ambulatory sites across Dallas-Fort Worth.

Medical City‘s parent company is Nashville-based HCA Healthcare, which ranked 63rd in this year’s Fortune 500 with annual revenue of $47.6 billion.

 

Source: Dallas News