Texas & Louisiana Industry News for September 2021
Construction started this summer on Texas Children’s Hospital for children and women in Austin. The freestanding hospital, which will serve families in Austin and Central Texas, is scheduled to be completed in the first quarter of 2024. McCarthy Building Cos. is the general contractor, and Page is the project architect.
The 52-bed, 365,000-sq-ft hospital will provide neonatal intensive care, pediatric intensive care, operating rooms, epilepsy monitoring, a sleep center, emergency center, a fetal center for advanced fetal interventions and fetal surgery with a special high-risk delivery unit, postpartum care, diagnostic imaging, acute care and an onsite Texas Children’s Urgent Care location. The hospital will have an adjacent 170,000-sq-ft outpatient building offering expert care for numerous pediatric subspecialties, including cardiology, oncology, neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, rheumatology care, among others.