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Medical City Frisco Opens $91M Patient Tower

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Medical City Frisco’s new patient tower, located at 5500 Frisco Square Blvd., is readying to accept patients after a ribbon-cutting ceremony held on December 9th.

The $91 million project features 118,500 square feet of space, 36 additional patient beds and two floors. The building’s foundation allows for future construction of six more floors, according to a Medical City Frisco news release.

Additional project features include large patient rooms, a spacious waiting area and 300 more parking spaces.

“The project also includes enhancements to the hospital’s emergency department to facilitate better access for emergency medical service vehicles and staff. A new EMS entrance is planned to be operational later in December,” Medical City Frisco CEO Patrick Rohan said.

The new patient tower will accept patients starting Dec. 13. The project is part of Medical City Healthcare’s plans to invest $1.1 billion into its health care system in North Texas. It follows the completion of a $54 million, 150,000-square-foot medical office building that opened in 2020.

“Medical City Frisco is proud to continue to invest in our community and to live out our mission demonstrating our commitment to the care and improvement of human life,” Rohan said.

 

Source: Community Impact

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

Dallas-Fort Worth Tops The Nation In Medical Office Building Development

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Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) had the nation’s highest rate of medical office building (MOB) completions from Q3 2017 to Q2 2018, according to a new report from CBRE.

MOB construction deliveries totaled 954K SF during that period, with another 95K SF of medical space still under construction as of the last half of 2018.mob

“Even development that robust doesn’t add up to overbuilding, at least not yet,” according to CBRE Senior Vice President, Global Workplace Solutions Jordan Buis. “Although we’ve seen growth in DFW healthcare developments over the past decade, I believe the market is stable. We’ve seen healthy demand from tenants to keep up with the new supply, and developers aren’t overbuilding. The population boom in DFW is driving the need for new medical product, especially in the suburbs.”

The recent volume of deliveries continues a longer-term pattern of growth for the Metroplex, the report said. From Q1 2010 to Q2 2018, DFW delivered more than 2.7M SF of new medical office space, second only to the Houston market, which delivered in excess of 3.5M SF of MOB space in the same period.  Medical office rents in the Metroplex increased 2.1% from Q2 2017 to Q2 2018 to $27.43/SF, even as the vacancy rate rose 180 basis points to 23.3% over the same period.

“As rents continue to rise and reimbursements continue to decline for the healthcare providers, it will be interesting to see if there’s a point of inflection in the near future,” Buis said.

The surge of MOB development in the Metroplex comes as health systems nationally are increasingly turning to outpatient centers due to higher capital costs and a surge in high-deductible health plans requiring patients to pay larger out-of-pocket amounts.

The total number of outpatient centers nationwide grew more than 50% from 2005 to 2016 to about 41,000 properties, according to CBRE. Outpatient center employment has more than doubled since 2003, and grew 3.5% year over year in October 2018, compared with 2% annual growth in overall healthcare employment.

Medical City Frisco Expansion (PHOTO CREDIT: Medical City Frisco)

In DFW, the most recent example of outpatient development — though close to a traditional hospital — just broke ground at Medical City Frisco.   The facility will be a medical office building with an ambulatory surgery center totaling about 150K SF and connected to Medical City‘s main hospital by a skybridge. The development will include 11 operating rooms, 53 patient rooms and office space. The $37M project is expected to be complete by spring 2020,”

“The development is anticipating future demand for leading-edge medical treatment,” Medical City CEO Charles Gressle said in a statement.

Last year, the hospital expanded its women’s services unit, which includes 13 delivery and recovery rooms, and features a six-bed, Level II neonatal intensive care unit with three dedicated cesarean section operating rooms.

 

Source: Bisnow