The University of Texas Medical Branch League City Hospital Campus is set to undergo a $300 million expansion, continuing billions of dollars of recent investments into the UTMB health system.
The multiphase expansion is scheduled for completion by 2030, with services coming online in stages.
The League City campus, which opened in 2016 as the city’s first hospital, previously expanded in 2020 with a five-story patient tower that added 60 beds.
The campus currently has 97 beds and handles about 42,370 emergency visits annually, according to university records.
Expansion plans include:
- Building a new 40-bed emergency department to accommodate higher patient volumes. Once the new emergency department opens, the existing 17-bed unit will be converted into a 20-bed observation unit.
- Relocating administrative offices, training facilities and the outpatient rehabilitation clinic and renovating the vacated spaces into a new 20-bed medical-surgical unit.
- Adding diagnostic and procedural imaging capabilities for emergency, inpatient and outpatient care, including MR, CT, ultrasound and fluoroscopy.
- Expansion of the inpatient pharmacy and renovation of laboratory areas to support workflow and medication management.
Photo by Pixabay from Pexels
This story is a part of the weekly Texas Government Insider digital news publication. See more of the latest Texas government news here. For more national government news, check Government Market News daily for new stories, insights and profiles from public sector professionals.
