{"id":18815,"date":"2025-10-24T05:21:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18815\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T05:21:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T05:21:07","slug":"texas-health-starts-construction-on-new-patient-tower-in-plano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/18815\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Health starts construction on new patient tower in Plano"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.texashealth.org\/Locations\/texas-health-plano\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano<\/a> is moving forward with its $343 million infrastructure expansion project after breaking ground on a new patient tower Oct. 21.<\/p>\n<p>What you need to know<\/p>\n<p>The $343 million expansion includes a 696-space parking garage, which opened in November 2024, and the new patient tower, which is expected to open fall 2028.<\/p>\n<p>The 300,000-square-foot tower will be eight stories, with three additional floors of shell space for future expansion efforts, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texashealth.org\/newsroom\/News-Releases\/2024\/Texas-Health-Presbyterian-Hospital-Plano-Opens-New-Parking-Garage-Announces-New-Tower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news release<\/a> from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the basement will connect current service corridors and house the newly expanded pharmacy department.<\/p>\n<p>What it means<\/p>\n<p>The new tower is planned to include an upgraded Emergency Department and enhanced specialty care for neuroscience, heart and vascular, and digestive health, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texashealth.org\/newsroom\/News-Releases\/2024\/Texas-Health-Presbyterian-Hospital-Plano-Opens-New-Parking-Garage-Announces-New-Tower\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fraser Hay, senior vice president of the hospital channel for Texas Health Resources, said the new tower will help expand the hospital&#8217;s ability to serve the growing community and will add 168 hospital beds.<\/p>\n<p>According to the release, the hospital plans to have 563 beds in total once the expansion is complete, including just under 400 licensed acute and critical care beds.<\/p>\n<p>Quote of note<\/p>\n<p>Texas Health Resources CEO Barclay Berdan said health care providers must plan to accommodate the rapidly increasing population of Collin County.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas Health is stepping up &#8230; to meet that demand,\u201d Berdan said. \u201cNot only serving Plano\u2019s residents, but those who come through our doors from other parts of the county and even beyond.\u201d\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano is moving forward with its $343 million infrastructure expansion project after breaking ground&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[160,14465,14464,162,14462,161,14463,14460,14461,12751],"class_list":["post-18815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-plano","tag-plano","tag-plano-emergency-room","tag-plano-er","tag-plano-headlines","tag-plano-hospital","tag-plano-news","tag-texas-health-plano","tag-texas-health-presbyterian","tag-texas-health-presbyterian-plano","tag-texas-health-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}