North - Northwest Austin Edition | June 2023

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SERVICE BREAKDOWN The new Dell Children’s and Texas Children’s hospitals will provide dierent services based on the location.

Dell Children's Medical Center Central Campus Opened: 2007

Dell Children's Medical Center North Campus Opened: 2023

Texas Children's Hospital Opening: 2024

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?

Dell Children's Medical Center Central Campus

Neonatal intensive care unit ECMO, a complex life support machine

Beds: 299 Operating rooms: 12 Emergency beds: 44 Headquarters: Austin 526,915 square feet

Orthodontic procedures Heart transplant services

For instance, specialized services in cardiac care will continue to be based out of the central campus due to its expansions in cardiac care resources in recent years, Cossey said. However, access to other specialties will still be provided at the north campus, such as neurology specialists, gastroen- terologists for gut and nutrition care, pulmonologists for asthma and lung problems, and others. The hospital will also provide general pediatric; ortho- pedic; and ear, nose and throat surgery services. A neonatal intensive care unit is not planned for the north location. Many of the medical specialists practicing at the central campus will provide care at the north cam- pus, and much of the sta at the north campus has already worked at the central campus, Cossey said. Although the facility was recently completed, the hospital plans to open a third operating room in the fall, fol- lowed by a fourth in early 2024, Cossey said. The hospital also has the capacity to eventually add an additional 36 beds, bringing the total to 72 upon build-out.

WHAT'S THE SAME? While services between facilities dier, there are similarities between what each hospital oers. This list is noncomprehensive.

Dell Children's Medical Center North Campus

• Emergency room

• Cardiology

• Physical & behavioral therapy

Beds: 36 Operating rooms: 2, 2 additional planned Emergency beds: 18 Headquarters: Austin 187,000 square feet

• Pediatric surgery

• Gastroenterology • Plastic surgery

• Intensive care unit • Infectious disease

• Ear, nose and throat • Neurosciences

SOURCES: DELL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL, TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITALCOMMUNITY IMPACT

her teens, having that hospital has the direct potential to give our commu- nity a higher quality of life,” Kelly said. Digging into Dell Children’s The Dell Children’s Medical Center in Central Austin opened in 2007. With almost 300 beds and over 500,000 square feet, the hospital has been the only dedicated children’s hospital in the Austin area since its construction, serving Central Texas and beyond. The opening of Dell Children’s Med- ical Center North Campus marked the launch of the rst pediatric

hospital in Williamson County. With 36 beds, 187,000 square feet, and a variety of emergency and specialty services, this hospital will act as an extension of the existing Dell Chil- dren’s Central Austin campus, said Dr. Melissa Cossey, associate chief medical ocer at the north campus. “In growing the north campus, we decided that we wanted to focus on certain aspects of pediatric care, but not focus on some of the things that will need to be done at the central campus where you need some of those more specialized teams,” Cossey said.

Texas Children's Hospital Beds: 52 Operating rooms: 7 Emergency rooms: 13, beds vary Headquarters: Houston 365,000 square feet

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