Methodist Health System is expanding its reach to the northern edge of DFW, a new hospital in Celina breaking ground on the system’s 13th hospital earlier this month. The 200,000-square-foot facility will have 60 beds and look to serve the growing community around it.
The $200 million project was set to break ground in January but was delayed due to weather. The hospital will sit on 46 acres in northern Collin County at the intersection of the Dallas North Tollway and F.M. 428, three miles from downtown Celina. The acute care hospital will offer cardiovascular, cancer, women’s, and orthopedic care. It will have 30 medical surgical beds, 10 post-partum beds, eight intensive care unit beds, and 12 emergency department beds. In addition, it will have three operating rooms and be equipped with a da Vinci surgical robot and space for an additional operating room. There will also be a catheterization lab and two procedure rooms.
“Though our deepest roots are in the city of Dallas’ southern sector, we are committed to growth — when it is for the right reasons,” said James C. Scoggin, Jr., chief executive officer of Methodist Health System. “And as we look at the boomtown of Celina and the need for a major medical facility, these are just two of many reasons we are so excited.”
Celina’s population has tripled since 2010, and it is the region’s fastest-growing city. Projections say the town will have 150,000 people within the next decade. Celina’s nickname is Rollertown, a monicker earned in 1902 when a new railroad was built a mile north of the town’s original location, so the citizens put the building on rollers and moved the town closer to the rail line. The growing town already has plenty to do, and its expansion has made plenty of headlines lately. D Magazine published an interactive story about how to spend a day in the northern suburb last year.
D CEO’s Brandon Call recently published a fascinating profile on Rex Glendenning, CEO of REX Real Estate, documenting his family’s roots in Celina and how he is positioned to take advantage of all the growth there. Glendenning’s great-grandfather Alexander arrived from Scotland in 1887, settling in West Celina on a 160-acre plot.
Glendenning has been waiting for development to move into the area where his family first settled and says COVID-19 sped up growth for a potential mixed-use development from 2030 to 2024 or 2025. The Dallas North Tollway is expanding (a portion of it is now named for Glendenning), with frontage roads reaching the Grayson County line, and it will soon be expanded to six lanes to F.M. 248, where the new hospital will be built.
Methodist leadership is confident that the empty land surrounding the hospital will change by the time the hospital is set to open in 2025. “I know that we’re surrounded by fields right now, but just wait,” said Methodist President and Chief Operating Officer Pam Stoyanoff. “In two years’ time, that will change and a new, beautiful, technologically efficient hospital will open, with a stellar and dedicated team of physicians, nurses, and support staff.”
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