Harris Health breaks ground on new hospital project on LBJ campus
UTHealth Houston celebrated alongside its hospital partner as Harris Health System broke ground on Thursday, May 9, on a new $1.6 billion Harris Health Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital in Northeast Harris County. (Photo by Halle Jones/UTHealth Houston)
UTHealth Houston celebrated alongside its hospital partner as Harris Health System broke ground for a new $1.6 billion hospital on the Lyndon B. Johnson campus in Northeast Harris County that will enhance health care in one of the county’s most vulnerable communities.
The groundbreaking event, held Thursday, May 9, signaled that construction is officially underway on a new 12-story, Level I trauma-capable facility on the current campus of Harris Health LBJ Hospital. The hospital will have 390 private patient rooms, with the potential to expand to 450.
“Since 1990, the beginning of UTHealth Houston’s affiliation with Harris Health, literally thousands of our physicians, residents, and fellows have provided excellent health care to our shared patients in Northeast Houston,” said Kevin Dillon, senior executive vice president and chief operating officer at UTHealth Houston, who was one of the invited speakers at the event. “Harris Health and UTHealth Houston share a commitment not only to improve patient outcomes but also to address the social determinants of health. We join the entire Houston community in our enthusiastic support for this upcoming expansion of the LBJ campus, and we look forward to providing more new services in the coming years.”