University Medical Center of El Paso

Owner: El Paso County Hospital District

Location: El Paso, Texas

Size: 574,600 sq ft

Cost: $200,000,000

Completion Date: July 2012

Architect: Jones Lang LaSalle -- KMD Architects -- Moore Nordell Kroeger Architects Inc.


Description: The University Medical Center of El Paso Master Plan includes two major projects including a $139 million expansion/renovation which completed in 2011 and a new 130-bed Children’s Hospital scheduled for completion in 2012. The initial project includes expansion of the Emergency Department and Level One Trauma Center, renovation of Imaging and Cath Labs, construction of a new in-patient Surgery Center, new Labor and Delivery, and Postpartum Beds and an expansion of the Central Plant. The 224,500 square-foot new Children’s Hospital will feature a bed tower with 60 pediatric private bedrooms, 50-bed neonatal intensive care unit, 20-bed pediatric intensive care unit, pediatric operating rooms, operating room suites, procedure rooms, an emergency department and areas for oncology, pediatric radiology, pathology and pediatric rehabilitation.

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