Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

Details

Name :

Methodist Sugar Land Hospital

Address  :

16655 Southwest Freeway

Town  :

Sugar Land

State  :

Texas

Country  :

USA

Post Code:

77479

Phone  :

281 274 7000

Web URL  :


Description

Methodist Sugar Land Hospital opened its largest expansion facility in its history more than tripling beds and doubling operating space

The 300 million expansion adds 189 beds for a total of 243 beds at the Hospital

Methodist Sugar Land Hospitals expansion introduces the latest diagnostic and therapeutic technology to Fort Bend featuring a whole body 3 Tesla MRI found only in the nations top academic medical centers and a 64slice CT scanner one of the first units of its type in the Houston area

Hospital services have expanded in critical care emergency department surgery and imaging and a new womens services floor is dedicated to obstetrics and gynecology patients
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