UT System Board of Regents announce plans for brand new UT medical heart

The UT System Board of Regents introduced plans to construct a brand new medical heart on the location of the Frank Erwin Middle throughout a press convention Aug. 14. The College of Texas at Austin Medical Middle will set up two hospitals — The College of Texas MD Anderson Most cancers Middle and a UT Austin hospital. 

“We’ll convey the world’s No. 1 most cancers hospital to Central Texas and construct on UT-Austin’s status for excellence within the success of the Dell Medical Faculty and UT Well being Austin,” stated Kevin P. Eltife, UT System Board Chairman in a KXAN article.

MD Anderson will employees and function one of many new hospitals, based on a current press launch. The brand new heart will enable Central Texas sufferers to obtain specialty care in Austin quite than touring to Houston.

Along with affected person care, the medical heart will even develop instructional and analysis alternatives out there to college students.

In line with the medical heart’s FAQ web page, the demolition of the Frank Erwin Middle is anticipated to be accomplished by October 2024. Officers anticipate they’ll break floor for the medical heart in 2026, the press launch said.

Together with state-of-the-art amenities, the middle will convey 150 inpatient beds and over 230 outpatient examination rooms, based on KXAN. Eltife stated whereas the overall funding for the mission continues to be being mentioned amongst regents, the estimated value is $2.5 billion.

“The State of Texas has been on a mission to make use of increased schooling to develop entry to healthcare, and at the moment marks a large step in direction of attaining our targets,” Governor Greg Abbott stated on the convention. “The Texas of tomorrow will probably be formed by what UT Austin and MD Anderson are constructing right here at the moment.”