Medical Journal Houston Vol. 11, Issue 7, October 2014
Legal Affairs: Update on CMS settlement offer with hospitals to resolve inpatient status appeals, see page 4
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Memorial Hermann to build new,
state-of-the-art, 80-bed hospital in Cypress
see page 5
Memorial Hermann Health System is set to
expand its world-class, clinically-integrated,
patient-centered care to the Cypress area,
unveiling plans recently to build a major
medical campus – the centerpiece being a
new, 80-bed, state-of-the-art hospital.
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The Memorial Hermann Health System
board unanimously approved the $168
million project. Construction on Phase I
of the Cypress project is scheduled to begin
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providing residents in the Cypress area with
the same high quality and safe patient care
it offers throughout the Houston region.
“The Cypress region is one of the fastest
growing in our area,” said Wolterman. “We
recognize that as the community continues
to grow so will their health needs. When
this campus is completed, residents in the
Cypress community will have immediate
access to high quality and safe patient care,
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8 operating rooms
A 16-bed Intensive Care Unit
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
1 Cardiac Catheterization Lab (and 1
shelled lab)
The Cypress campus master plan also
includes the capacity to grow inpatient
beds to 275 to accommodate future growth,
as well as the construction of a dedicated
Memorial Hermann Life Flight® helipad
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Legal Affairs......................4
Technology....................5
Integrative Medicine.........6
Physicians Forum.............7
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Hospital Headlines.........12
Rendering of the new Memorial Hermann Health System Cypress Hospital
Integrative Bariatric
Surgery
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in early 2015. The campus will be built on
a 32-acre site located on the northeast side
of Highway 290, south of Mason Road and
north of Mueschke Road.
Dan Wolterman, President and CEO of
Memorial Hermann Health System said
the board’s approval of the new campus
signals the health system’s commitment to
as well as advanced services that only a
clinically-integrated, comprehensive health
system can deliver.”
The Cypress campus will be designed and
built with a forward-looking focus taking
into consideration the area’s current
population of more than 355,000 residents,
and an expected growth of nearly 100,000
more people over the next decade.
Phase I of the project, scheduled to be
completed in early 2016, will include a fullylicensed Emergency Center and Medical
Office Building offering convenient,
primary care and ambulatory services,
with physician offices. Highlighting Phase
2 of the project will be the construction of
an 80-bed, acute care hospital, slated for
completion in 2017.
The hospital will include:
and space for two additional medical office
buildings.
“This new medical campus will give the
Cypress area access to the vast Memorial
Hermann network, as well as provide a
place for medical professionals and the
region’s top specialists to care for their
patients closer to home,” said Scott Barbe,
CEO, Memorial Hermann Cypress Market.
The Cypress project represents the
latest addition in Memorial Hermann’s
strategic growth initiative – Breaking
New Ground – designed to meet current
and future healthcare needs in the greater
Houston region. The initiative includes
the construction of a medical campus in
Pearland featuring a 64-bed hospital, and
multi-million dollar expansions at Memorial
Hermann-Texas Medical Center, Memorial
Hermann Katy Hospital and Memorial
Hermann Sugar Land Hospital. t
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