United Memorial Medical Center has filed paperwork with the state to build a 23-bed hospital in Hurst. The Houston-area hospital operator has four locations, and this will be its first expansion into North Texas.
UUMC has three acute care hospitals throughout Houston and one in Sugarland. According to the application with the state to operate a hospital, the UMMC Mid-Cities Hospital is eligible to participate in the Medicare program. It will not be physician-owned but is a for-profit facility. The application says it will be a general hospital with surgery, X-ray, clinical laboratory, and emergency department services. The facility will not treat obstetrics, mental health, or pediatric issues. According to the paperwork, the hospital will have 23 medical surgery beds and one emergency department bed.
In 2022, Becker’s Hospital Review reported that the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services terminated the UUMC Medicare contract for failing to meet specific health and safety standards, but the hospital said it would continue to treat Medicare patients without being reimbursed. Houston’s Fox 26 reported on a CMS letter from 2021 describing operating rooms with rusted equipment, dirty cabinets with debris, cockroaches, an open floor drain that allowed pests to access the OR, staff without proper certifications, and poor infection control methods. The Houston Chronicle reported that the system replaced its governing board following the CMS incident.
According to The Leapfrog Group’s Hospital Safety Grade, UMMC’s main campus in Houston received an F, its North campus received a D, and its Sugarland location received an F in the most recent ratings. Much of the data from these hospitals was unavailable, meaning UMMC could not receive a numerical score in the Leapfrog ratings. The main campus’ score suffered from below-average ratings in several categories, including falls, collapsed lungs, blood leakage, accidental cuts and tears, blood infections, sepsis infection, communication, safe medication administration, responsiveness, and others. According to the American Hospital Directory, that campus is staffed for 151 beds and has a one-star patient experience rating.
UMMC – Mid Cities Hospital is planned for the address where St. Camillus Medical Center once was. St. Camillus appears to be closed, but the website is still up and running—the phone number for the hospital results in a busy signal. St. Camillus’ leadership from the hospital did not respond to attempts to contact them.
UMMC-Mid Cities Hospital will be located 2.5 miles east of Medical City North Hills, which has 157 staffed beds, and just under five miles west of Texas Health Hurst-Euless-Bedford, which has 251 staffed beds, according to the American Hospital Directory.
According to the application, UMMC’s CEO will be Syed Mohiuddin, who the Indo-American News called an “accomplished businessman and entrepreneur” before beginning his role in leadership at UMMC. Leadership at UMMC did not respond to questions about the hospital before deadline.
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