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Inside This Issue
June Edition 2022
Texas Children’s Hospital Reaches Major Milestone in Expanding Service within the Central Texas Market
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Impact of High Deductible Health Plans See pg. 10
INDEX Legal Matters....................... pg.3 Oncology Research......... pg.4 Healthy Heart....................... pg.8 Hospital News...................... pg.9
Dell Med’s Third Graduation Ceremony See pg. 11
exas Children’s Hospital recently celebrated the topping out of the Texas Children’s Hospital North Austin Campus, which will house pediatric care and women’s health services under one state-of-the-art roof to better serve patients and their families in the Austin and Central Texas areas. To observe this important construction milestone, Texas Children’s President and CEO Mark A. Wallace and Executive Vice President Michelle Riley-Brown, along with multiple physicians and Austin-area Texas Children’s patients and their families, gathered with representatives from McCarthy Building Companies, Inc., Page Southerland Page Inc., and Transwestern to complete a traditional tree hoisting in honor of the new facility. “It has been a longtime goal of mine to continue the vision of our founders and bring Texas Children’s Hospital’s high quality level of care to families throughout Texas,” said Wallace. “Over the last few years, it has been amazing to see Texas Children’s grow in Central Texas and I could not be more proud and excited to celebrate this important milestone in the completion of our Austin facility, along with my colleagues at Texas Children’s and everyone at McCarthy, Page and Transwestern, without whom, none of this would have been possible.” Providing breadth and depth of services to the Austin area, the 365,000-square-foot main hospital offerings will include but not be limited to the following:
Texas Children’s Hospital President and CEO Mark A. Wallace, right, and a Texas Children’s patient family from Austin commemorate the topping out of the hospital’s new North Austin Campus, scheduled to open in early 2024. This new hospital will house pediatric care and women’s health services under one state-of-the-art roof to better serve patients and their families in the Austin and Central Texas areas.
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Neonatal intensive care Pediatric intensive care Operating rooms Epilepsy monitoring Sleep center Emergency center Fetal center for advanced fetal interventions and fetal surgery with a special high-risk delivery unit • Heart center • Cardiovascular intensive care • Renal dialysis • State-of-the-art diagnostic imaging • Acute care • On-site Texas Children’s Urgent Care location. The adjacent 170,000 -square-foot outpatient facility will provide added value by directly connecting patients and their families to Texas Children’s numerous subspecialties, including cardiology, oncology, neurology, pulmonology, gastroenterology, rheumatology, fetal care, dialysis, and more. “Our expanded footprint in Central Texas means more mothers and babies will have access to our top-tier, specialized care and world-renowned team,” said Dr. Michael Belfort, OB/ GYN-in-Chief at Texas Children’s Pavilion for Women and Professor and
Chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor College of Medicine. “The Texas Children’s Fetal Center is known across the globe as the go-to place for high-risk pregnancies, and we are thrilled to offer more families access to the nation’s leading team for the diagnosis and treatment of fetal abnormalities closer to their home in Austin.” “We are so happy to be able to offer our services to the children, women and families of Austin,” said Dr. Larry H. Hollier, Surgeon-in-Chief at Texas Children’s and Professor of Plastic Surgery, Orthopedic Surgery and Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. “At Texas Children’s Hospital, we are committed to bringing high-quality care for the most complex conditions close to home.” “Texas Children’s Hospital is no stranger to Austin with primary, specialty and urgent care services already well established there,” said Dr. Lara S. Shekerdemian, Pediatrician-inChief at Texas Children’s and Professor of Pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine. “Currently, several of our see Milestone...page 14
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