posted on December 24, 2010 23:44
Scott & White Healthcare purchased 98 acres in College Station for a new 143-bed acute care hospital, officials announced Wednesday.
The organization bought the land for an undisclosed amount from Weingarten Realty Investors and College Station Independent School District. The five-story, 320,000-square-foot project near Texas Highway 6 and Rock Prairie Road will cost about $165 million.
Construction on the future Scott & White Hospital-College Station is scheduled to begin early next year and finish mid-way through 2013. It will open with 119 beds, but expand to 143 on an as needed basis. An adjacent 75,000-square-foot clinic is also proposed and will be built by a third-party developer in conjunction with the hospital.
Scott & White has served patients in College Station for more than 25 years.
The project will include an emergency department, cardiac services, cath labs, a neonatal intensive care unit, comprehensive cancer services, operating rooms, maternity services suites, endoscopic procedure suites, interoperative robotics, specialty services, pharmacy, imaging and other diagnostic capabilities.
Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center Chief Operating Officer Jason Jennings will serve as CEO for the College Station hospital. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a bachelor’s in biomedical sciences and earned a master’s degrees from the University of Texas Medical Branch and the University of Texas at Tyler.
Temple-based Scott & White Healthcare is a non-profit health care system founded in 1897. The group and its partners employ 12,000 people from 12 hospitals and more than 60 clinic locations in Central Texas. The College Station build is the second new facility Scott & White has announced in recent weeks. On Dec. 6, officials said they are partnering with the Lone Star Circle of Care for a clinic in Taylor.
Scott & White has also purchased land in Leander for a primary care clinic and has two other projects planned in Williamson County during the next 12 to 18 months, officials have told the Austin Business Journal.
12/22/10, Austin Business Journal