Fulshear-Katy Community Guide 2024-25

partnership over the last 70 years. The hospitals are neighbors in their Katy area campus and also share close proximity in The Woodlands and throughout the Houston area. “Texas Children’s Hospital recognized in the early 2000s that the West Houston/ Katy area was on its way to becoming the epicenter of Houston’s population. With a median age of 35, this area holds a large number of families with children. We understand that bringing a sick child to the Texas Medical Center may not always be easy or convenient, so we embraced the opportunity to bring Texas Children’s reputation and level of care to families close to home,” explains Dan Gollins, President of Texas Children’s Pediatrics and Texas Children’s Urgent Care. Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus opened in 2010 with a full range of in-patient and out-patient services in order to provide families with high quality care closer to home. The hospital includes a 26-bed, dedicated pediatric emergency center open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, staffed with board certified pediatric emergency medicine physicians, pediatricians, and advanced practice providers. Six operating rooms are available, primarily for outpatient and select emergent procedures. More

west of Hwy 99 is undergoing a $167 million expansion, which will add 115,000-square-feet of new and renovated service areas, nearly 100 beds, a third professional office building with an additional surface lot, and a parking garage with nearly 700 free parking spaces to better serve the greater Katy area’s growing population. The project will double the size of the emergency center and add two additional operating rooms, six neonatal intensive care beds, six antepartum beds, a neonatal continuing care unit, an expansion of the cardiac catheterization lab recovery area, and additional labor and delivery rooms, including a cesarean section (C-section) suite. Many of these improvements have already been completed, and the remainder are expected to be fully operational in the near future. Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital is focused on expanding its capabilities in the areas of trauma and critical care medicine, neurosurgery, as well as vascular and thoracic surgery to better respond to the emergent needs of those who live and work in and around Katy. Memorial Hermann Medical Group also has nine locations, which focus on a variety of specialties conveniently located throughout the Fulshear–Katy area.

surgery, imaging, emergency services, and a new medical-surgical unit to care for patients with in-hospital needs. Beyond expansion at its main campus, Houston Methodist West is planning the development of two comprehensive care centers — one adjacent to its Cinco Ranch Emergency Care Center and one at an additional site in Katy. The 60,000-square-foot comprehensive care center in Cinco Ranch will offer primary care, a same-day clinic and lab, imaging, and physical therapy, in addition to specialty care services “As our community continues to expand, we want patients to be able to access health care that is convenient to where they live,” said Kyle Stanzel, Chief Operating Officer for Houston Methodist West. “That’s why we’re increasing the number of locations we have across our area and the types of services that are available at our facilities.” TEXAS CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL WEST CAMPUS Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist have enjoyed a strong such as orthopedics, neurology, gastroenterology, urology and rheumatology.

than 9,500 surgeries and procedures were performed last year. In addition, Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus has the only Special Isolation Unit for children in Texas and the Southwest region. Designed specifically for children with highly contagious infectious diseases (Ebola, MERS, etc.), the unit allows our expert team to provide care to patients in a safe, state-of-the-art environment. Texas Children’s Pediatrics offers primary care in five Fulshear-Katy area locations, including its newest location in the Cross Creek Ranch subdivision in Fulshear. It also offers two urgent care locations: Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus and Cinco Ranch. These clinics provide expert after-hours and weekend pediatric care, staffed by Texas Children’s board certified pediatricians, physician assistants, nurses, and nurse practitioners. MEMORIAL HERMANN KATY Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital has been serving the Katy community for over 40 years, dating back to its first location

on Pin Oak, which opened in 1981. The current campus on I-10 just

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