GALVESTON, TX — The Southwest District celebrated completion of the new University of Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) League City Hospital Expansion project with a recent ribbon-cutting ceremony. After the project achieved substantial completion, UTMB immediately requested the hospital to be patient-ready to help support the anticipated needs of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hensel Phelps project team achieved this expedited goal by managing the punch list and assisting UTMB with activation acceleration, equipment installations, and department relocations.

This project is part of UTMB’s overall master plan to expand its League City campus. The new five-story patient tower includes 60 new patient beds, a sterile processing area, pharmacy and clinical lab spaces, along with a new dietary kitchen, servery, and dining area. Site work included the construction of a new helipad, receiving dock, and emergency department access drive. The project was designed to tie directly into the active hospital.

In addition to the patient tower, the team performed over 25,000 square feet of renovation work in the existing hospital facility to help support other necessary department expansions. Renovation work includes build-out of an eight-bed Emergency Department, Endoscopy and Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography suite, and an 11-bed Intensive Care Unit.