Health care
BY HANNAH NORTON & BRITTANY ANDERSON
A once-bustling basketball, live music and commencement venue in Central Austin is being demolished to make way for two new hospital system facilities. The Frank Erwin Center will be torn down by fall 2024 and replaced by The University of Texas at Austin Medical Center, consisting of a UT Austin hospital and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Hospital towers to replace Erwin Center
Diving in deeper
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FRANK ERWIN CENTER
DELL SETON MEDICAL CENTER
The project will be funded by: • UT System • UT Austin • MD Anderson • Other donors and partners The UT Austin hospital will be built and oper- ated by the university, while the cancer center will be built and operated by MD Anderson. The adjacent hospitals will be located near the Dell Medical School. “We are bringing our research-driven patient care, our compassion and empathy, our
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nation-leading patient experience, and the largest cancer clinical trials program in the world to Aus- tin, Texas,” MD Anderson President Peter Pisters said. “This will be a cancer center that will provide hope and cures to Central Texas and beyond.”
What’s next
The two facilities will bring hundreds of new patient beds to downtown’s medical district. Specialty hospital:
UT board of regents votes to demolish the Frank Erwin Center for $25 million May 2022
Claudia Lucchinetti, the dean of UT’s Dell Medical School, said many Austin-area residents often have to seek care outside the city for cardiovascular diseases, musculoskeletal issues and neuroscience. The specialty hospital will have around 250 beds for patients with complex conditions. UT students studying medicine, nursing, pharmacy and social work will have opportunities to work and learn at the new hospitals, she said. The new cancer center will include 156 beds and over 230 outpatient exam rooms. “We will bring the same subspecialty focus around specific types of cancers that we have in Houston,” Pisters said. “That would involve, for example, a breast cancer clinic, a
around 250 beds
Cancer center:
156 beds
$2.5 billion hospital investment announced August 2023
230 outpatient exam rooms
4,000 employees hired
Frank Erwin Center demolition finished Late 2024
SOURCES: DELL MEDICAL SCHOOL, MD ANDERSON/COMMUNITY IMPACT
colorectal cancer clinic and [other] specialized services.” The center will be staffed by MD Anderson physicians and thousands of employees overall.
Hospitals break ground 2026
SOURCE: UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS BOARD OF REGENTS/COMMUNITY IMPACT
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