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UTMB specialty clinic to open in League City
  
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By NEESHA HOSEIN
The University of Texas Medical Branch recently began construction on a new Specialty Care Center at Victory Lakes in League City.
The building will cover 64 acres with two stories and 110,000 square feet of space, to be completed and open to the public by February 2010.
Karen Sexton, executive vice president and CEO for UTMB Health Systems, was the keynote speaker at the League city Economic Development Corporation meeting last Tuesday.
“We don’t have all the answers right now, but we do know the beginning,” Sexton said. “We are digging on the property as we speak.”
Sexton said UTMB officials deem this project No. 1 on their priority list of off-island projects.
“The UTMB Specialty Center at Victory Lakes will contain outpatient specialty care and an ambulatory surgical center, so we will be doing day surgeries there,” Sexton said. “We will be complimenting existing medical services in North Galveston County and south of Harris County. That is really the market area.”
The specialty center will have advanced imaging services, and pediatric and adult clinics. It will also have a pediatric urgent care center, and it is still unclear whether or not the other one in League city will remain, Sexton said.
Parking will be free at the new facility, which is not the case on the Galveston campus.
Sexton said a future endeavor, currently being discussed, is to have a medical office complex on this new campus as a phase of future expansion.
When asked about the inclusion of indigent care, Sexton responded by saying that for more than 100 years, UTMB has served the community and “in today’s healthcare we struggle with that because no one wants to pay for indigent healthcare. We cannot do it all on our own, especially for the whole state of Texas. We’ve got to grow that part of business that will help us be financially solvent.”
Sexton said it is not that UTMB will provide less indigent healthcare, but that they will also “give a whole lot more of everything else.”
The building will cover 64 acres with two stories and 110,000 square feet of space, to be completed and open to the public by February 2010.
Karen Sexton, executive vice president and CEO for UTMB Health Systems, was the keynote speaker at the League city Economic Development Corporation meeting last Tuesday.
“We don’t have all the answers right now, but we do know the beginning,” Sexton said. “We are digging on the property as we speak.”
Sexton said UTMB officials deem this project No. 1 on their priority list of off-island projects.
“The UTMB Specialty Center at Victory Lakes will contain outpatient specialty care and an ambulatory surgical center, so we will be doing day surgeries there,” Sexton said. “We will be complimenting existing medical services in North Galveston County and south of Harris County. That is really the market area.”
The specialty center will have advanced imaging services, and pediatric and adult clinics. It will also have a pediatric urgent care center, and it is still unclear whether or not the other one in League city will remain, Sexton said.
Parking will be free at the new facility, which is not the case on the Galveston campus.
Sexton said a future endeavor, currently being discussed, is to have a medical office complex on this new campus as a phase of future expansion.
When asked about the inclusion of indigent care, Sexton responded by saying that for more than 100 years, UTMB has served the community and “in today’s healthcare we struggle with that because no one wants to pay for indigent healthcare. We cannot do it all on our own, especially for the whole state of Texas. We’ve got to grow that part of business that will help us be financially solvent.”
Sexton said it is not that UTMB will provide less indigent healthcare, but that they will also “give a whole lot more of everything else.”
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