HEALTH CARE Several area hospitals expanding to meet growing local need
BY CARSON GANONG
according to a press release. The St. David’s Round Rock expan- sion, which is expected to be com- plete sometime in 2023, comes as part of a larger $953 million investment in expanding St. David’s hospitals across Central Texas. Regarding expansions for BSW, on Oct. 4 the Williamson County Commissioners Court approved a resolution to issue $55 million in bond funds for an expansion of the BSW medical center at 2600 E. P ugerville Parkway in P ugerville and $200 million in bond funds to expand the BSW medical center at 300 University Blvd. in Round Rock. Gabe Martinez, senior public rela- tions consultant for BSW, said details are not yet available for the P uger- ville expansion, but the Round Rock expansion will add 165,000 square feet and include the construction of a 10-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 30 new labor and delivery rooms, and 30 new medical-surgical rooms. Even though Williamson County o cials approved the issuance of $255 million in bond funds for the expansions, Martinez said cost estimates are still not set. He added the Round Rock facility expansion will be complete in 2024. Barclay said hospital expansions, such as those at St. David’s and BSW, will remain crucial as area popula- tions continue to boom. “It de nitely makes me excited to know that many more people will be able to seek health care within our community,” he said.
A pair of large-scale medical center expansions at St. David’s HealthCare and Baylor Scott & White Health facilities in Round Rock are planned over the next two years. An expansion at St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center will cost about $53.1 million and bring two additional oors to the center’s main hospital. St. David’s CEO Jeremy Barclay said the expansion will help St. David’s keep up with the increasing need for health care in Williamson County as Round Rock and nearby cities continue to grow. “Over the past couple years, we have certainly noticed an increase in demand for health care services, like we have with housing and everything else,” Barclay said. One of the new oors will house a 34-bed intermediate patient care unit, and the other will be a shell space for future expansion. The expansion will also create space for four new operating rooms in the hospital’s surgical suite that will be used for specialty services, such as neurosurgery and oncology. Barclay said the fourth oor will contain another 34 intermediate care beds when built out. “We added additional [intensive care unit] beds last year, so we were able to help with that demand, … and the biggest need we have now is for that middle level of care,” he said. St. David’s expects to hire approx- imately 60 employees over the next two years to ll the new space,
Ground broke on the $53.1 million St. David’s Round Rock Medical Center expansion Nov. 8.
COURTESY ST. DAVID’S MEDICAL CENTER
EXPANDING SERVICES Two major medical centers will grow in scope over the next two years in Round Rock.
St. David’s Round Rock expansion
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new operating rooms for specialty surgery 4
PARK VALLEY RD.
-bed intermediate
care unit 34
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additional oor reserved for future expansion 1
2400 Round Rock Ave., Round Rock Completion in 2023
Baylor Scott & White Round Rock expansion
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new labor and delivery
-bed neonatal intensive care 10
rooms 30
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new surgical suites new endoscopy suites
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300 University Blvd., Round Rock Completion in 2024
rooms 30
SOURCES: BAYLOR SCOTT & WHITE HEALTH, ST. DAVID’S ROUND ROCK MEDICAL CENTER COMMUNITY IMPACT
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