BARMC senior leadership team, from left to right: Ben Casmer, COO; Santiago Mendoza Jr., SVP Business Development & Marketing; Carol Dzierski, SVP Quality; Dr. Michael Lyons, CEO; Susan White, CNO; Lynn Clements, SVP Human Resources; Mike Metts, CFO
BAY AREA REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER Built on Strength. Structure. Physicians. Community.
STRUCTURE
The Medical Center of the South continues to grow and welcomes its newest state-of-the-art hospital, Bay Area Regional Medical Center (BARMC), to Webster (Houston Bay Area) – located on Highway 3, between Blossom and Orchard Street. The 375,000 square foot facility was built by Medistar Corporation with hurricane resistant glass that can withstand up to 225-mileper-hour winds. Bay Area Regional Medical Center (www.barmc.us), was built to give the Houston Bay Area community access to advanced technologies and high standards of health care. The facility is designed and engineered to accommodate approximately 250 private patient rooms in 11 floors, when fully built out in future years. Also, the sixstory parking garage will
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accommodate approximately 675 parking spaces and will provide valet parking services available to their patients. When the hospital open phase I in late July 2014, medical teams and patients will have access to: • 104 private patient suites • 22 Intensive Care Unit (ICU) rooms • Five operating suites* • Two endo/procedure rooms • Three cardiac cath suites* • 24 Pre-/Post Anesthesia Care Unit beds • Full-service Emergency Department with 11 treatment rooms, including two trauma rooms • * One Hybrid Operating Room that functions as a cardiac cath suite and an operating suite Medistar Corporation, headquartered in Houston, is a leading medical and real estate development company in the U.S. that specializes in the design, development, financing and construction of hospitals and facilities for the healthcare industry, as well as corporate development, corporate facilities and hospitality venues. Medistar Corporation also designed and built the award winning long term acute care hospital, at 350 Blossom Street and the Medical Office Building located at 250 Blossom Street in Webster. (To learn more about Medistar or other projects they have designed and built, please visit their website at www. medistarcorp.com.)
PHYSICIANS
Over 200 physicians in the Houston Bay Area were driven to build a hospital to meet their needs. As of June