Size: 260,000 square feet
Timeline: September 2019-first quarter 2022
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Work on $250M Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital expansion continues, completion expected in 2022
Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital is undergoing an expansion. (Andrew Christman/Community Impact Newspaper)
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Officials said progress is continuing on pace for the $250 million expansion of Houston Methodist The Woodlands Hospital, which broke ground Sept. 27, 2019. Work on an 800-space parking garage will be completed in fall 2021. The new patient tower was topped out this fall, hospital officials said. When it opens in the first quarter of 2022, the tower will feature 100 beds, 10 new operating rooms, and expansions to the diagnostic imaging department and the endoscopy, heart and emergency centers.
Size: 260,000 square feet
Timeline: September 2019-first quarter 2022
Size: 260,000 square feet
Timeline: September 2019-first quarter 2022
By Andrew Christman
Andrew joined Community Impact Newspaper in early 2019 after moving from Indiana. He is a 2015 graduate from Indiana State University, where he received degrees in English and journalism. He has written for a number of small town publications throughout his career as a reporter.
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