West Houston Medical Center “Signs the Steel” Celebrating Growth & Community: Topping Out Ceremony Includes Partnership with Houston Food Bank
HOUSTON, June 29, 2010 –West Houston Medical Center (WHMC) is partnering with The Houston Food Bank to celebrate the West Houston Community and the hospital’s $70 million expansion. Hospital employees will sign a red, white and blue painted steel beam provided by the Skanska Construction Company during Fourth of July Celebrations this Thursday, July 1, 2010. The beam will become part of the hospital’s new facility that will add more than 95,000 square feet of new construction, 33,000 feet of renovation and 23,000 square feet of shell space.
“This is a very exciting time for us at West Houston Medical Center,” said Todd Caliva, CEO. “This is not only a celebration of our project, but also a chance for us to give back to our community through our partnership with the Houston Food Bank. We have provided compassionate and exceptional care to West Houston for more than 25 years and we look forward to expanding our services in this beautiful, new setting.”
The project will increase licensed beds by 53 and include additional Operating Rooms, an Intensive Care Unit, Women’s Services, Parking and Registration. The expansion will add a new, three-story bed tower that will connect to the northeast side of the existing hospital. The new tower will house Cardiac Services, including two Cardiac Cath Labs, one Bi-Plane Electrophysiology Lab, and five Diagnostic Procedure Rooms with ten Cardiac Recovery Bays. The tower will also house shell space for future expansion of Telemetry Medical/Surgical beds and is being constructed with future development in mind with the ability to expand vertically three additional floors.
West Houston will also expand Women’s Services and will include all new Labor and Delivery Rooms, Post Partum Rooms, as well as a Newborn Nursery and Level ll Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. The new unit also includes an affiliation with The Woman’s Hospital of Texas to enhance the quality WHMC services already in place. Women’s services will be called The Woman’s Hospital of Texas at West Houston. Construction is expected to be completed by December 2010.
Skanska is partnering with West Houston Medical Center to provide a Fourth of July celebration and Topping Out Ceremony for employees and the media in a tented area in the Boulevard Medical Plaza Parking Lot at 12606 West Houston Center Boulevard, Houston, TX 77082 located behind West Houston Medical Center:
Schedule of Events:
11:00-2:00 p.m. Bar-B-Q provided by Goode Company, Donate Canned Items, Sign the Steel
1:00 p.m. WHMC Employee Group Photo (Photo will be captured by Skanska from atop a construction lift)
1:15 p.m. Announcement of Employee Awards
1:30 p.m. Drawing for Flat Screen T.V. in honor of high participation in Employee Satisfaction Survey
About West Houston Medical Center
West Houston Medical Center is a 221-bed full service hospital located on Richmond Avenue just east of Dairy Ashford. The hospital has served the community for more than 20 years with 24 hour emergency services; an open heart surgery program; neurosurgery program; inpatient and outpatient surgery and diagnostic services; women’s services; wound care and many more. In Sugar Land , the Sugar Land Cancer Center and the Sugar Land Diagnostic Center are located on the Southwest Freeway at the Williams Trace and Sugar Lakes exit. The diagnostic center and the cancer center facilities are departments of West Houston Medical Center. Visit us at www.westhoustonmedical.com
About HCA Gulf Coast Division
HCA Gulf Coast Division is a comprehensive network of hospitals, outpatient surgery centers, emergency centers, cancer centers and diagnostic imaging facilities. It offers a complete continuum of specialized health programs and services that meet the needs of Greater Houston and South Texas residents and businesses. HCA affiliated facilities in the Gulf Coast Division include 12 hospitals, 7 ambulatory surgery centers, 4 free standing emergency centers, 5 imaging centers, 5 cancer care programs and a Regional Transfer Center. The Regional TransferCenter provides ground and air patient transportation to and from any HCA Houston Affiliated Hospital and any other healthcare facilities. For more information visit our website at www.hcahouston.com
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