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Video Tour: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital opens Healing Tower Expansion

By Jennifer Bruse | April 20, 2022

On Wednesday, April 13, Hello Woodlands had the opportunity along with local media to take a tour of the new Healing Tower at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital.

View the tour in the video below:

After 24 months of construction and enduring this challenging time in health care, Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital opened the Healing Tower hospital expansion. The Healing Tower is a six-story, state-of-the-art building expansion that includes 106 additional beds to the existing 187 beds in the medical-surgical areas and Childbirth Center. The expanded Emergency Department doubles the capacity with a total of 46 rooms, expands the diagnostic imaging department providing 3 MRIs, PET, CT scan, interventional radiology, and more, nine additional operation rooms to a total of 24, and a dedicated endoscopy center.

Healing Tower Tour at Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital — Photo by Rod Prado, Hello Woodlands; Sarah Fleming, Associate Chief Nursing Officer, Debra F. Sukin, Regional Senior Vice President of Houston Methodist and CEO of Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital, Kerrie Guerrero, Chief Nursing Officer and Vice President, Trent Fulin, Vice President and COO of Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital.

First Floor:

Emergency Department: 18 additional rooms for a total of 46
Imaging: 1 additional MRI for a total of 3
One additional CT scan for a total of 3
Expanded outpatient lab

Second Floor:

Operating Rooms: 9 additional rooms for a total of 24 ORs, including 2 interventional radiology suites dedicated to vascular surgery and interventional neurosurgery
Additional CT scan for postsurgical assessment
Preoperative and postoperative recovery: 31 additional beds for a total of 80
Robotic-assisted technology: Additional da Vinci robot for a total of 4

Third Floor:

Dedicated center for endoscopy and bronchoscopy procedure recovery
Large atrium with natural light, open seating and expanded dining options

Fourth Floor:

Level III Childbirth Center: 32 additional beds for a total of 58
Level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU): 10 additional beds for a total of 24
Outpatient lactation consultation area

Fifth Floor:

Intermediate care unit (IMU): 16 beds
Telemetry medical-surgical unit: 16 patient care rooms

Sixth Floor:

Telemetry medical-surgical unit: 32 patient care rooms

A few benefits of the new patient care tower include an expanded Emergency Department, additional hospital beds plus a larger Childbirth Center, a hospital-of-the-future design, recently completed second parking garage, and the growth is creating an additional 350 jobs to support the expansion.

Visit houstonmethodist.org/thewoodlands to learn more and Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital.

Source: Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital