The hospital was renamed Baylor Hospital in 1921 and then Baylor University Hospital in 1936 to emphasize its relationship with the Baptist-affiliated Baylor University in Waco, Texas. The nursing school was established in 1918. It received its charter from the state government in October 1903 and had financial support from the Baptist General Convention of Texas. In 1903, the hospital opened as Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium in a 14-room renovated house with 25 beds. In 2013, Scott & White merged with Baylor Health Care System to form Baylor Scott & White Health. News & World Report in its list of "America's Best Hospitals" for the fifteenth consecutive year. It has 1,025 licensed beds and is one of the major centers for patient care, medical training and research in North Texas. Some patients could start undergoing outpatient surgeries there in 2016 as well.Īfter the second tower is built, the entire hospital will contain 650 beds, with a projected opening date of 2019.Hospital in Texas, United States Baylor University Medical Centerģ500 Gaston Avenue, Dallas, Texas, United Statesģ2☄7′25″N 96☄6′51″W / 32.7903°N 96.7809°W / 32.7903 -96.7809īaylor University Medical Center ( Baylor Dallas or BUMC), part of Baylor Scott & White Health, is a not-for-profit hospital in Dallas, Texas. "It's a pretty exciting, big, modern, forward-thinking new project," Klotman said.įifty hospital beds will be ready in the first tower later in 2016.
The design mimics that of an airport, with separate levels for departures and arrivals, and different entrances for each airline.
Upon discharge, patients will exit through yet another door, on a different level. Duncan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and then the main entrance for the general hospital," he explained. There'll be a separate entrance for the Dan L. "There will be a separate entrance for the Texas Heart Institute, so we will have a mini-cardiac hospital within the main hospital. Patients will enter through different doors, depending on why they are there. Klotman says the new hospital's design will help with traffic. There will also be a separate building for doctor's offices. So that's really the big announcement," Klotman said.īaylor already owned a medical building on the McNair campus, but that building will be finished and a new hospital tower added over the next few years. "The best move was to have a complete replacement facility.
The old building will be sold or demolished, or possibly repurposed for non-medical uses. Paul Klotman, president of Baylor, said that a decision has been reached that it doesn't make sense to operate in two locations. Luke's would keep the old hospital tower, built in 1954.ĭr. The leaders of both institutions announced then they would expand services to the McNair campus, a plot of land on the corner of Old Spanish Trail and Cambridge.īut it was unclear then if CHI St. Luke's entered into a partnership with Baylor College of Medicine. The genesis of the move goes back two years, when CHI St. Luke's building in the heart of the Texas Medical Center, and into a new hospital campus to be built across from the Michel E. Luke's Medical Center have announced that all medical services will be moved out of the historic St.
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