CHI St. Luke’s Hospital to Spring into north Houston

​​​​SPRING – As the 2,000-acre Springwoods Village grows up around the new Exxon Mobil Corp. campus just south of The Woodlands, CHI St. Luke’s Health is preparing to unveil its newest concept for medical facilities.

The CHI St. Luke’s Health Springwoods Village medical campus, a $120 million, 150,000-sf facility on 23 acres, has been operating a primary care clinic since May and will open the hospital in January 2016.

The six-story hospital will focus on providing outpatient and preventative health care, with four inpatient beds, ten emergency room beds, four operating suites, two endoscopy suites, full diagnostic imaging capabilities and 100,000 sf of medical office building space.

It will open with 35-40 employees, with plans to expand the staff and the services in phases as the community need grows.

The Springwoods Village campus emergency department is expected to eventually be able to treat up to 18 patients at capacity.

Even as the health care sector crept up on energy as the largest non-retail employment sector in 2014, accounting for 18 percent of non-retail jobs compared to energy’s 32 percent, according to The Woodlands Area Economic Development Partnership, the sector is expected to grow even more as area hospitals realize major expansion plans in the coming years.