Understanding the lawsuits: Central Health, Ascension Seton sue each other in ongoing contract fightĪscension Texas owns the Dell Seton building and is spending $310 million on construction. Instead, Ascension Texas runs Dell Seton, and Central Health reimburses Ascension Texas via its Medical Access Program insurance for people making an annual income below 200% of federal poverty level. Unlike other hospital districts, Central Health does not run the safety-net hospital. In dispute: the number of indigent people served by Dell Seton and the reimbursement for those services by Central Health. What about the lawsuits between the hospital and hospital district?ĭell Seton is expanding while its hospital system, Ascension Texas, is trading lawsuits with Central Health, the hospital district for Travis County. The construction crane will be on the Waller Creek side. The Dell Seton expansion, adding four stories above the current north-south patient tower, will create a 12-story building. More: Is my child going to lose Medicaid? What families need to do now to avoid being dropped It is one of nine new hospitals or hospital expansions underway locally in the next three years.Įxpansion of the programs at Dell Seton and UT Health Austin, the clinical practice of the medical school, also are fueling the expansion. He estimates the 11-county region will need 1,400 more hospital beds in the next decade to keep up with growth. Growing new programs: Statesman exclusive: Gift of a kidney launches new Austin transplant program Why does Dell Seton need to expand?ĭell Seton is the Level I trauma hospital for Central Texas, so it receives the most serious cases from an 11-county region. By 2030, that's expected to be more than 2.4 million. The Austin area increased from 1.8 million people in 2017 to 2.2 million in 2023, according to the United Nations' population projections. But Austin's growth changed that projection. It is the teaching hospital for the UT Dell Medical School, which opened in 2016.ĭell Seton President Adam Messer said the hospital's pillars and foundations were designed for this expansion,, which wasn't expected for another decade. The expansion includes a larger intensive care unit and a new in-patient rehabilitation gym.ĭell Seton opened in 2017 as the safety-net hospital for Travis County to replace Brackenridge Hospital, which the city had outgrown. It will add another floor to the east-west tower facing Red River Street.Ĭonstruction will add 150 patient beds across all levels of care to the existing 210 beds, six more operating rooms to the existing 14, and extra space for pre-operation and post-operation rooms. The expansion will add four stories above the current north-south patient tower to create a 12-story building. Six years after opening, Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas is undergoing a $280 million expansion of the hospital at 1500 Red River St. The beige line in the center of the tower is where the current building stops and the expansion will begin.

Total number of ED visits who were seen on the previous calendar day who had a visit related to COVID-19 (meets suspected or confirmed definition or presents for COVID diagnostic testing – do not count patients who present for pre-procedure screening).Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas is planning a $280 million expansion that will add four stories on the patient tower and another story on the clinical area facing Red River Street.

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