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Texas Health Hospital Frisco is set to see the addition of 30 new patient rooms as part of a $25 million expansion project.
Tiffany Northern, president of Texas Health Frisco, said the new rooms are expected to be available to patients in November.
The big picture
Since opening in 2019, Northern said Texas Health Frisco has seen several expansion projects as part of the hospital's growth master plan.
As the hospital continues to expand, Northern said the goal is to quickly get patients from the emergency department to in-patient spaces with nurses and physicians ready to care for specific illnesses.
“We always had a vision that we could be bigger,” Northern said. “Our goal and why we want to get these beds online is because we want to make sure that we don’t create instances where people are really waiting and holding in that emergency space.”
Northern said the expansion project will increase the hospital's capacity to 123 beds. The additional 30 rooms will be designated as medical-surgical, meaning they are fit for patients who have a medical diagnosis or just had surgery, Northern said.
The new private rooms will be located on the hospital’s seventh floor. Northern said the rooms will feature natural lighting and a recliner or pull-out sofa for family members to stay with patients while in the hospital.
“When we design our spaces, we design with the patient and the community in mind,” Northern said. “[The patient rooms] are really designed to be able to have that support person and loved one with you as part of your healing journey [and] for you to feel as comfortable as you can while you’re in a hospital setting.”
Zooming out
Northern said Texas Health Frisco is also looking to expand its cancer care and treatment services, such as by recruiting more cancer physician specialists and bringing chemotherapy and infusions services on-site to the Frisco campus. Additionally, the hospital is exploring the expansion of other service offerings, such as MRI and mammography centers, to provide patients with an alternative to commercial spaces where they can have their treating physician on-site with them.
“We’re constantly looking at utilization and then also connecting with the community in various ways to determine the services to offer,” Northern said.
The goal is for patients to be “comprehensively cared for” by receiving everything from clinic services to hospital procedures all on the same campus, Northern said.
