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Business Development Update
By: Barbara Cutsinger
Marketing Manager
Bay Area Houston
Economic Partnership
BayAreaHouston.com
Medical news ….
HCA’s Clear Lake Regional Medical Center in Webster
has been designated as a Level II Trauma Center.
Common criteria for a level II center is 24-hour access
to various types of surgeons and a comprehensive
quality assessment program. The CLRMC campus
includes the Brain & Spine Institute, The Heart
& Vascular Hospital, a Breast Diagnostic Center,
oncology and bariatrics programs, the area’s only
pediatric emergency department and a pediatric ICU. Currently under construction at the UTMB League
City campus is MD Anderson’s 190,000 SF, $110
million outpatient center.
Bay Area Regional Medical Center and Medistar
Corporation announced the development of a 60,000
SF medical office building on a site near SH 3 and E.
Medical Center Blvd. in Webster. In the same location,
Medistar is developing a new 70-bed skilled nursing
facility. The facilities will complement the adjacent Bay
Area Rehabilitation Hospital comprised of 45 private
rooms for inpatient rehab. Houston Methodist St. John Hospital will begin
the redevelopment of Nassau Bay Shopping
Village, located adjacent to the hospital campus
in the 18000 block of Upper Bay Road. The
hospital, which purchased the 8-acre property in
late 2015, will begin demolition of the unused
portion of the center to make way for new parking
capacity for hospital staff. The hospital does have
plans to eventually use the site for expansion, but
the planning and execution of a major building
program could take up to a decade, and could
possibly even include some associated retail
space.
Bay Area Regional Medical Center and Medistar
Corporation are developing a new ambulatory surgery
center at Gemini III, Medistar’s three-building medical
campus in Houston at the corner of Buccaneer
and Gemini. The facility will feature two special
procedure rooms and four operating suites with
future expandability to six operating rooms. Plans are
underway now for the surgery center, with construction
slated for completion late this year. Located on the
same campus, Gemini I and II buildings are fully
leased to orthopedic surgeons, pain management and
primary care physicians.
UTMB plans in League City on the Gulf Freeway –
A new 700-space parking garage and 33,000 SF
clinical building are set for completion in May/June
of 2018.
Phase 2 expansion: As part of the master plan for the
UTMB League City hospital, which opened in 2016, an
additional 123,000 SF will be added to the facility to
accommodate new patient rooms and related services.
It’s reported that UTMB could add as many as 350
hospital rooms if population and clinical demand
warrant such investment. Based on its master plan,
the projected growth of its League City campus
could be as much as 3 million SF in years to come.
The hospital recently installed a da Vinci® robotic
surgical system; an ultra-modern Discovery®
nuclear medicine scanner; and a best-in-class 3
Tesla, wide-bore magnetic resonance imaging
(MRI) machine – the most powerful and comfortable
unit available today.
Renovations to the Emergency Department are
also underway, which includes the addition of
a new 3 Tesla Wide Bore MRI. The Emergency
Department renovations include remodeling
the reception area, waiting room, as well as the
triage area. The renovations are expected to be
completed by June of this year.