The Woodlands medical center area tops off new hospitals

HOUSTON – The race to build up what some are calling The Woodlands Medical Center has reached a milestone as both Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital and Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands put the final beams in place in the construction of the two new hospitals.

Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital building will sit on 59 acres at the corner of I-45 and Texas 242 and will open with 193 in-patient beds and plans to ultimately include 400 beds.

The hospital shares the land with a 150,000-sf medical office building, which is planned to open in February 2016. Houston Methodist is investing $380 million in this campus, which is the eighth in the system and modeled after Houston Methodist West Hospital near Katy.

Texas Children’s The Woodlands:

On the other side of the freeway, adjacent to CHI St. Luke’s -The Woodlands Hospital, the $360 million, 548,000-sf Texas Children’s Hospital The Woodlands pediatric facility is keeping pace.

The hospital will include 24 emergency center rooms, 74 outpatient rooms, five radiology rooms and 30 acute care beds at opening with plans of up to 200 additional beds.

Both hospitals are slated to open in 2017.