Medical City Arlington Breaks Ground on Patient Tower

Construction for a $144 million Medical City Arlington expansion project, which includes a new patient

On March 1, the project broke ground at a ceremony attended by many Arlington leaders, including Arlington Mayor Jim Ross and University of Texas at Arlington College of Nursing Dean Elizabeth Merwin, who also chairs the hospital’s board of trustees. The project will add 127,000 square feet that provides additional beds, surgery rooms, renovations, and more. Construction is expected to be completed by early 2025.

“After almost 50 years of providing healthcare excellence, our hospital is proud to continue to invest in the future of the Arlington community,” said Sharn Barbarin, CEO of Medical City Arlington. “This new patient tower will provide additional accommodations for our world-class caregivers in a variety of specialties, further enabling compassionate, clinically excellent services when and where our community needs them, close to home.”

The three-story tower is part of Medical City Healthcare’s major capital investment initiative of more than $1.4 billion spent or committed over

3 Scoops

1. Superior Urgent Care opens this month, with a ribbon cutting on April 19 at 11 am. The urgent care center company has locations in Keller and The veteran-owned and operated clinic is at 8021 Matlock Road, Suite 131.

2. The Grand Prairie Police Department is hiring for a variety of assignments. Salary ranges from $74K to $103K. civil service exam is Saturday, April 29, 2023. Apply online @ www. grandprairiepolice. org.

expansions, facility enhancements and leading-edge technology.

The tower will provide space for the following additions and improvements:

• 60 additional patient care beds

• 8 private day surgery rooms

• 12 additional post-anesthesia (PACU) bays

• Central energy plant

• Kitchen expansion/renovation

• 2 new neurosurgery, 2 new orthopedic surgery operating rooms

• New main lobby connecting the patient tower to Medical City Women’s Hospital Arlington

3. Late last month the Texas Department of Transportation completed another segment of the $230 million I-30/SH 360 exchange project. The new westbound I-30 interchange ramp to SH 360 opened March 21 and the southbound SH 360 interchange ramp to eastbound I-30 opened on March 17. Hooper.

• Medical Center Arlington, a Level II Trauma Center with an emergency department, treated nearly 107,000 patients last year. The hospital increased its robotic surgery options in 2022 and launched the Center for Lung Health, which provides consultations and coordination of care with a multidisciplinary team of lung experts, including pulmonologists, medical oncologists, radiation oncologists and radiologists.

by Jason Boyd