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HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball to begin postpartum space expansion
BY LIZZY SPANGLER
rooms, additional nursery space, and additional education and support space for the maternal-child health program.” The hospital is also undergoing around $5 million in general updates and renovations that will be com- pleted in the rst quarter of 2023, Marmerstein said. “About $2.5 million of that is reorganization and expansion of a few of our existing operating suites, making the rooms larger to better accommodate higher acuity surgeries that require more people and more equipment,” Marmerstein said. “We are also reinvesting in several of the supporting pieces of equipment that we need to utilize in the [operating room], and the sterile processing department where we sanitize, steril- ize and reorganize all of our surgical instruments—we’re making some updates to that area as well.”
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HCA Houston Healthcare Tom- ball will begin renovations to its postpartum space this year, with an anticipated completion date sometime in 2024, said Robert Marmerstein, the CEO of HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball. Marmerstein said the hospital has seen an increase in births. “[We] want to make sure that we don’t run into any capacity challenges as those services in the community are needed,” Marmer- stein said. The renovations to the postpartum space will be around $19 million, Marmerstein said. “We have a oor that exists beneath our existing labor and deliv- ery, and postpartum area,” Marm- erstein said. “We’re going to build out half of that oor to encompass what will be additional postpartum
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HCA Houston Healthcare Tomball is planning renovations to its hospital in 2023. in postpartum renovations in general renovations
SOURCE: HCA HOUSTON HEALTHCARE TOMBALL COMMUNITY IMPACT
LIZZY SPANGLER COMMUNITY IMPACT
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