Round Rock Edition | June 2023

NEWS BRIEFS

Dell Children's new north location brings health care option to WilCo

BY BROOKE SJOBERG

Center North campus. The facility also has two operating rooms, endoscopy and procedure rooms, sleep labs, and shelled space for future growth. The hospital also houses a Ronald McDonald suite on the third oor for parents whose children are receiving care. Space left for future growth can accommodate up to 36 additional beds on top of the existing 36 beds, hospital ocials said. At an event to celebrate the grand opening, state Rep. John Bucy III, DAustin, said the new facility will help many people in Williamson County regardless of income or background.

CARE FOR KIDS The new Dell Children’s Medical Center in North Austin, which opened April 27, is the rst medical center dedicated to children in Williamson County. The facility oers several services and features.

The Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus ocially opened April 27. Contractors broke ground on the new facility in May 2021, and the four-story building contains over 187,000 square feet of space. Located at 9010 N. Lake Creek Parkway, Austin, the medical center is the only hospital in the county dedicated to the care of children, Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell said. The 36-bed hospital will oer emergency and trauma services, said Dr. Melissa Cossey, associate chief medical director of the Dell Children’s Medical

• sleep labs • Ronald McDonald suite for parents

• 36 beds • procedure rooms • endoscopy rooms

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New neurocritical care unit to open at Dell Seton Medical Center in Austin

BY BROOKE MILLER

in June, provides care to patients with complex and acute neurological conditions, according to the release. The upgrade is part of a $280 million expansion that Ascension Seton announced in April. Dr. Alan Nova is among the health care professionals leading the unit. “The benets of a neurocritical

care unit in our community are signicant. The opening of this unit not only enhances the team’s ability to compassionately care for patients and aggressively treat neurological conditions, but also opens doors for research endeavors within the neu- rosciences and collaborations across disciplines,” Nova said in the release.

Ascension Seton announced a new neurocritical care unit in The Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas, and it will be the rst of its kind in Central Texas, according to a May 23 news release from Ascension Seton. The new addition, which will open

The new center will open in June at Dell Seton Medical Center.

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