Methodist Dallas breaks ground on $108M ER

DALLAS – Methodist Dallas Medical Center has broken ground on a $108 million, 248,000-sf trauma and critical care tower at — one of the biggest construction projects in southern Dallas in years.

The six-story Charles A. Sammons Trauma and Critical Care Tower at Methodist Dallas Medical Center is scheduled for a summer 2014 completion.

The new tower will expand the hospital’s emergency department ten-fold and include 58 new emergency room beds, six trauma suites, eight surgical suites, a 36-bed critical care unit and the ability to expand to 11 stories for future growth.

More than 60,000 patients visit Methodist’s emergency department every year, including 1,500 trauma patients.