Memorial Hermann Unveils Plans for New Hospital

HOUSTON — Memorial Hermann Health System is planning to build a $168 million hospital, expanding care to Cypress, Texas.

The health system board unveiled plans on Oct. 6 for a new, 80-bed hospital to be built on a 32-acre site located on the northeast side of Highway 290. Construction on Phase I is scheduled to begin in early 2015.

Dan Wolterman, president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Health System, said the board’s approval of the new campus signals the health system’s commitment to providing residents in the Cypress area with the same high quality and safe patient care it offers throughout the Houston region.

“The Cypress region is one of the fastest growing in our area,” Wolterman said in a statement. “We recognize that as the community continues to grow so will their health needs. When this campus is completed, residents in the Cypress community will have immediate access to high quality and safe patient care, as well as advanced services that only a clinically-integrated, comprehensive health system can deliver. We look forward to being the area’s healthcare provider of choice for many years into the future.”

The hospital’s campus will be designed and built for the area’s current population of more than 355,000 residents, which is expected to grow by nearly 100,000 over the next decade.

Phase I of the project, scheduled to be completed in early 2016, will include a fully-licensed emergency center and medical office building that offers primary care and ambulatory services, as well as physician offices. Phase II will focus on the construction of an 80-bed, acute-care hospital, slated for completion in 2017. The hospital will include eight operating rooms, a 16-bed intensive care unit, a neonatal intensive care unit and a cardiac catheterization lab.

Planning for the hospital also includes the capacity to grow inpatient beds to 275 to accommodate future growth, as well as the construction of a dedicated Memorial Hermann Life Flight helipad and space for two additional medical office buildings.

“This new medical campus will give the Cypress area access to the vast Memorial Hermann network, as well as provide a place for medical professionals and the region’s top specialists to care for their patients closer to home,” said Scott Barbe, CEO, Memorial Hermann Cypress Market, in a statement. “Any health care need will be expertly addressed, whether it’s a quick, non-emergent, outpatient visit, or a procedure requiring inpatient care.”

The Cypress hospital is the latest addition Memorial Hermann’s strategic growth initiative called Breaking New Ground, which is designed to meet current and future health care needs in the greater Houston region. The initiative includes the construction of a 64-bed hospital in Pearland, Texas, and multi-million dollar expansions at Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center in Houston, Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital in Katy and Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital in Sugar Land.