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The $70 million expansion at West Houston, celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, will add more than 112,000 square feet of new construction, 43,813 square feet of renovations and 23,000 square feet of shell space. The project will increase licensed beds by 59 and includes additional Operating Rooms, an Intensive Care Unit, Womens Services, parking, and registration.

The West Houston project includes a new three-story bed tower that will house cardiac services, including two cardiac cath labs, one bi-plane electrophysiology lab, and five diagnostic procedure rooms with 10 cardiac recovery bays. The tower will also house shell space for future expansion of telemetry medical/surgical beds. The tower is being constructed with future growth in mind, with the ability to expand vertically three additional floors.

$30 million of the total dollars in capital will be spent on expanding womens services that will be added to a new second floor above the Emergency Department and will include all new Labor and Delivery Rooms, Post Partum Rooms, as well as a new newborn nursery and level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The facility has established a joint strategy with The Womans Hospital of Texas to enhance the already high-quality women and infant care at West Houston. The womens wing will be called The Womans Hospital of Texas at West Houston.

West Houston is projected to serve more than 47,000 patients in its Emergency Department this year, a 7% growth over 2008, and a good indicator of the need for additional space and services to provide for the increase in admitted patients. Along with additional bed-space, larger, more patient friendly waiting areas and centralized departments will promote patient satisfaction and greater operational efficiency.

West Houston Currently employs more than 1,000 staff and is served by 500 physicians in multiple specialties. Ground breaking on the expansion is expected at the beginning of the year with a completion date in 2012.

West Houston Medical Center website: http://www.westhoustonmedical.com/index.html

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