HEALTH CARE Baylor Scott & White announces $220M medical center expansion
EXPANSION DETAILS Baylor Scott & White is
expanding its Round Rock campus to include specialty features and exible facilities. Timeline: January 2023-26 with rolling openings Cost: $220 million
BY BROOKE SJOBERG
As one example, Bennett said, intensive care unit patients could have beds in the expanded general medicine surgical unit, or it could become a speci c unit, should the need arise. “We’re building those rooms so that they’re not specialized into one place [and] that they have all the resources they need to provide what we call universal care,” Bennett said. “As needs may change or grow, it gives us more exibility.” Bennett said the coming expansion will allow the BS&W Round Rock facility to address the needs of a booming population as the greater Round Rock area is projected to jump by nearly 90,000 people by 2040. Williamson County Judge Bill Gravell said the rapid growth is due in part to the appeal of the area for large companies that are drawn in by what the community has to o er and looking to locate facilities. Similarly, the local health care system has observed a 30% increase in the number of patients it serves within Williamson County just in the last ve years, Fox said. At the January groundbreaking, Gravell emphasized the county’s growth and encouraged BS&W o - cials to plan for additional expansions. “You need to dream big because we are being sought by leaders from all around the world,” he said. “[Bay- lor] Scott & White isn’t just a hospital in Williamson County. Baylor Scott & White is an anchor for the people of Central Texas, and it all begins here.”
Round Rock residents will soon be able to take advantage of additional equipment and expanded health care services through one of the larg- est-ever expansions of the Baylor Scott & White Round Rock Medical Center. Once complete, the expansion will bring more operating rooms and patient beds in addition to upgrades for several di erent departments within the facility. On Jan. 11 representatives for BS&W announced and held a groundbreak- ing for the $220 million expansion of the Round Rock facility. The expan- sion will incorporate rolling openings through 2026 as new o erings become expanded several times since opening in 2007, said Jay Fox, BS&W Health Austin-area president. However, he said the latest expansion will greatly overshadow previous upgrades. Site work for the expansion of the existing Baylor Scott & White Round Rock Medical Center campus began in January, Vice President of Opera- tions Drew Bennett said. At a September workshop for the state of health care in Round Rock, Bennett and other health care industry leaders discussed potential concepts for health care facilities expansions in Williamson County. Bennett said expansions would need to be out tted for multiple types of care to be provided in each space and allow for uctuating bed space needs to be met. available, according to BS&W. The medical center has been
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The expansion that is underway will be connected to the existing medical center.
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Williamson County and Baylor Scott & White o cials held a groundbreaking Jan. 11 for the expansion.
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ADDED FEATURES Baylor Scott & White Health has not yet issued speci c information of what the $220 million expansion will include, but did provide a general overview of facility additions.
Specialized cardiac care, interventional radiology and testing laboratories
A neonatal intensive care unit
An expanded labor and delivery department
An expanded emergency department
Additional operating rooms and patient beds
Additional support for the hospital’s cafe
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