“It has been a longtime goal of mine to continue the vision of our founders and bring Texas Children’s Hospital’s high quality level of care to families throughout Texas,” stated Wallace. “Over the last few years, it has been amazing to see Texas Children’s grow in Central Texas and I could not be more proud and excited to celebrate this important milestone in the completion of our Austin facility, along with my colleagues at Texas Children’s and everyone at McCarthy, Page and Transwestern, without whom, none of this would have been possible.”
Providing breadth and depth of companies to the Austin space, the 365,000-square-foot essential hospital choices will embody however not be restricted to the next:
- Neonatal intensive care
- Pediatric intensive care
- Operating rooms
- Epilepsy monitoring
- Sleep heart
- Emergency heart
- Fetal heart for superior fetal interventions and fetal surgical procedure with a particular high-risk supply unit
- Heart heart
- Cardiovascular intensive care
- Renal dialysis
- State-of-the-art diagnostic imaging
- Acute care
- On-site Texas Children’s Urgent Care location.
The adjoining 170,000-square-foot outpatient facility will present added worth by straight connecting sufferers and their households to Texas Children’s quite a few subspecialties, together with cardiology, oncology, neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, fetal care, dialysis, and extra. “Our expanded footprint in Central Texas means more mothers and babies will have access to our top-tier, specialized care and world-renowned team,” stated Dr. Michael Belfort, OB/GYN-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women and Professor and Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine. “The Texas Children’s Fetal Center is known across the globe as the go-to place for high-risk pregnancies, and we are thrilled to offer more families access to the nation’s leading team for the diagnosis and treatment of fetal abnormalities closer to their home in Austin.”Â
“We are so happy to be able to offer our services to the children, women and families of Austin,” stated Dr. Larry H. Hollier Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief at Texas Children’s and Professor of Plastic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. “At Texas Children’s Hospital, we are committed to bringing high-quality care for the most complex conditions close to home.”
“Texas Children’s Hospital is no stranger to Austin with primary, specialty and urgent care services already well established there,” stated Dr. Lara S. Shekerdemian, Pediatrician-in-Chief at Texas Children’s and Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. “Currently, several of our Austin and Central Texas patients and families also travel to Houston for some aspects of their care, but when our amazing new hospital opens in 2024 — our patients and families will have all of the very best care and subspecialty inpatient services in their own back yard.”
“As capitol of our great state and a leading technology hub, it seems only fitting that the nation’s largest children’s hospital, Texas Children’s can now call Austin home,” stated Dr. Jeffrey Shilt, Community-in-Chief at Texas Children’s and Professor of Orthopedics and Scoliosis Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine. “Our mission that originated in the Texas Medical Center in Houston remains the same in Austin: to create a healthier future for children and women by leading in patient care, education and research. I could not be more excited about building on our promise to deliver the highest quality of care, close to home for the families of Austin, which will include additional programs of excellence that provide even more choices for care in the region.”
To present a related sense of care to sufferers, Texas Children’s convened a number of community-centered focus and advisory teams to evaluate finest practices for the area. “Expanding access to our expert pediatric and maternal care to even more families in Texas is an extension of our mission,” stated Riley-Brown. “We are excited to bring the unparalleled level of care that Texas Children’s is known for to the families of Austin and look forward to opening our doors in 2024.”
While staying true to the standard Texas Children’s appear and feel, the brand new Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus concurrently will weave the distinctive tradition and geography of Austin and the Central Texas hill nation into the ability. An outside remedy house will function a respite for sufferers, households and workers, and every ground of the brand new hospital will show a distinct theme primarily based on Central Texas landscapes. In growing the constructing, Texas Children’s focused a sustainability ranking of two stars within the Austin Energy Green Building Program, labored to preserve condensate water for irrigation, and preserved roughly 40% of the prevailing timber on the property.  Â
“The thoughtful design and layout of the new hospital will enhance productivity and efficiency by streamlining the location of core services, while also celebrating the natural landscape to educate, inspire and promote healing,” stated Jill Pearsall, Senior Vice President of Facilities Planning and Development at Texas Children’s.
Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus, situated at 9835 North Lake Creek Parkway, will start serving sufferers within the first quarter of 2024.
ABOUT TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
Texas Children’s Hospital, a not-for-profit well being care group, is dedicated to making a more healthy future for kids and ladies all through the worldwide neighborhood by main in affected person care, schooling and analysis. Consistently ranked as one of the best youngsters’s hospital in Texas, and among the many high within the nation, Texas Children’s has garnered widespread recognition for its experience and breakthroughs in pediatric and ladies’s well being. The hospital consists of the Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological Research Institute; the Feigin Tower for pediatric analysis; Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women, a complete obstetrics/gynecology facility specializing in high-risk births; Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus, a neighborhood hospital in suburban West Houston; and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands, the primary hospital dedicated to youngsters’s take care of communities north of Houston. The group additionally created Texas Children’s Health Plan, the nation’s first HMO for kids; has the most important pediatric main care community within the nation, Texas Children’s Pediatrics; Texas Children’s Urgent Care clinics specializing in after-hours care tailor-made particularly for kids; and a world well being program that is channeling care to youngsters and ladies everywhere in the world. Texas Children’s Global Health program leads efforts that advance well being care fairness by progressive collaboration in care, schooling and analysis for underserved populations globally. Texas Children’s Hospital is affiliated with Baylor College of Medicine. For extra information, go towww.texaschildrens.org. Get the most recent news by visiting the net newsroom and Twitter at twitter.com/texaschildrens.
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