Methodist Health System officials on Friday will break ground on a $118 million expansion of the Methodist Mansfield Medical System, just a few days shy of two months since the board OK’d the project.
Upon its completion, Methodist Mansfield will have a new 110,000-square foot patient care tower in the existing building’s northwest corner with space for 118 beds. The expansion will add 34,000 square feet of operating rooms along with cardiology and gastroenterology services.
In addition to this, another 64,000 square feet will be dedicated to support services; namely, lab, materials management, biomed, and sterile processing. According to Methodist spokesman Joe Brown, the new tower will bring 200 new jobs and serve residents in Tarrant, southeast Dallas, Johnson, and Ellis Counties.
The new tower should be open by the fall of 2015. Currently Methodist Mansfield has a women’s pavilion, a level III neonatal intensive care unit, labor and delivery suites, and recovery services, D Healthcare Daily previously reported.
Methodist Mansfield opened as a community hospital in 2006. Since then, multiple expansions have nearly doubled its capacity.
On Thursday, officials announced that Nancy Ann and Ray L. Hunt donated $2 million to go toward the in-development Charles A. Sammons Trauma and Critical Care Tower at the Methodist Dallas Medical Center.
The six-story, 248,000-square foot tower will expand emergency, trauma, and critical care services at the Oak Cliff hospital. That expansion, which cost $123 million, should be open in summer 2014.
