The facility will have two medical towers, one for the cancer center and the other for the new university hospital. It will be located at the current downtown location of UT-Austin’s Frank Erwin Center, formerly a multipurpose facility.
The cancer center will have 150 inpatient beds for treatment, 230 outpatient exam rooms and will include many of the same features as the MD Anderson hospital in Houston, including bone marrow transplantation and multiteam surgery.
This is incredible news for our city!! All we have to lose is the Erwin Center
Massive win for the city and surrounding area. Much easier access to highly knowledgeable cancer doctors. For many people this will save them trips to MD Anderson facilities in HTX.
Frank Erwin Center will be missed but this is much better for the city. Plus the frank erwin center was kind of janky and smelly. Moody Center is 100X better as an entertainment venue.
Which does make me sad, I miss the cheaper concessions and I’ve got a “lot” of history there.
It doesn’t seem entirely clear to me what the relationship will be between this new facility and Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas, which it will be adjacent to, and is pictured in the thumbnail. Will this new hospital be like an extension also ran by Seton (IE Ascension)? Or will it be run completely by the University without Ascension? Or will it be ran by MD Anderson? Seems very close to the existing hospital for them to be completely separate.
I’m seeing they’re building a “specialty hospital,” there’s probably a lot more to flush out there. It reads like it will be a UT owned and operated hospital
It’s sort of all of the above. You are just naming different entities of that massive system — University of Texas, or entities that have an indirect relationship, Acsension.
The land and buildings are owned by UT — Dell Seton Medical Center, (new) UT Austin MD Anderson Center. Dell in this case is just buying naming rights (similar to how big companies buy sports arenas).
Ascension is more of the people side to this equation. They are the ones that bill patients, manage staff, and make sure hospital is up and running.
MD Anderson is just another healthcare system like Ascension, except keeping it all in-house and specializes in cancer research and treatment.
