St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System to Build 100-bed Hospital in Sugar Land

HOUSTON — St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System has entered into partnership with physicians in Sugar Land and Southwest Houston to found St. Luke’s Sugar Land Partnership, L.L.P. The partnership, a collaborative approach to healthcare formed to help meet the medical needs of the growing Sugar Land community, will operate and manage a 200,000 square foot, state-of-the-art healthcare facility designed with the latest innovations in health technology. The hospital will be located at the Lake Pointe Town Center, at U.S. Highway 59 and Highway 6. Groundbreaking will take place in August 2006, with the hospital scheduled to open in fall 2007.

The 100-bed hospital will offer inpatient and outpatient services, and will feature 60 private rooms with acute care beds, 20 private rooms dedicated to women’s services, a 10-bed pediatric unit, a 10-bed intensive care unit, and comprehensive diagnostic and imaging services. The new facility will offer an array of medical and surgical clinical services, obstetrics and pediatrics.

Medistar Corporation, the developer of the hospital, also will develop a 125,000 square foot medical office building that will be directly connected to the hospital. The two buildings will be situated on 12 acres, which will allow for expansion. Medistar is one of the premier medical developers in the nation, specializing in municipal facilities, hospitals and outpatient medical facilities. PageSoutherlandPage, a nationally recognized architectural firm, has been selected for the project.

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 St. Luke’s Episcopal Health System comprises the flagship St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital in the Texas Medical Center, founded in 1954 by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas; St. Luke’s Community Medical Center–The Woodlands, opened in 2003; St. Luke’s Episcopal Health Charities, a charity devoted to assessing and enhancing community health, especially among the underserved; and Kelsey-Seybold Management, LLP, overseeing 21 area clinic locations. St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital is home to the Texas Heart^® Institute, founded in 1962 by Denton A. Cooley, MD, and consistently ranked among the top 10 cardiology and heart surgery centers in the nation by U.S. News & World Report. Affiliated with several nursing schools and two medical schools, St. Luke’s serves as the primary adult teaching hospital for Baylor College of Medicine. St. Luke’s was the first hospital in Texas named a Magnet hospital for nursing excellence, and the Health System has been recognized by FORTUNE as among “100 Best Companies to Work For” (2002, 2004 and 2005) and by Houston Business Journal as a top employer in Houston for five consecutive years.