Health Care Edition Health care
BY ASIA ARMOR
2025
Welcome to the annual CI Health Care Edition! This guide highlights the rise of local applied behavior analysis, or ABA, centers in the Sugar Land and Missouri City areas. These facilities aim to provide support for children and families who are impacted by autism. The edition also covers Sugar Land’s incoming MD Anderson Cancer Center and celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center. Updates to hospitals and other local health care providers round out this edition focused on the area’s medical accomplishments and challenges.
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What's inside
Explore the growth of ABA centers treating autism (Page 14)
Learn about your local Gulf Coast Regional Blood Center (Page 16)
See updates from 3 Sugar Land hospitals (Page 17)
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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center broke ground March 31 in Sugar Land on what will be the system’s largest Houston-area facility outside of the Texas Medical Center. The ve-story facility, located near the Smart Financial Centre, will span 470,000 square feet and open in 2029, according to a March 31 news release. The University of Texas owns about 40 acres of land in the area, according to the Fort Bend Central Appraisal District. The details It will replace MD Anderson’s leased space at 1327 Lake Pointe Parkway, on the campus of MD Anderson to build cancer center in Sugar Land
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On March 31, MD Anderson broke ground in Sugar Land on what will be its largest Houston-area facility outside of the Texas Medical Center. N
ambulatory surgery center, expanded diagnostic imaging, radiation oncology and outpatient procedural services, per the release. The site will also host multidisciplinary clinics for adult patients with low-to-medium acuity needs. MD Anderson o cials declined to provide job numbers and construction costs for the facility. The system also plans to open a cancer preven- tion facility along Hwy. 6 in Missouri City in 2026.
St. Luke’s Health-Sugar Land Hospital. “By expanding our reach in Sugar Land, we can better meet the needs of patients in Southwest Houston, making it easier for them to access the treatment and support they deserve,” MD Anderson President Peter WT Pisters said. Diving in deeper The facility will broaden the services available at the Sugar Land location to include a new
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