Ascension Seton invests $280M to revamp, expand Dell Seton Medical Center
Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday.
AUSTIN (KXAN) — Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday.
Currently, Dell Seton Medical Center serves as the only Level 1 Trauma Center in the region. Under the expansion, Ascension Seton officials said the center will add 150 beds and more than 160,000 square feet to the facility. Some key additions to come include:
- Six new operating rooms with pre-operation, post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) space
- Inpatient rehabilitation gym
- On-call suites
- Intensive care unit (ICU) expansion
- Clinical, outpatient spaces
- Neurology, wound and burn care, oncology and abdominal transplant facilities
- Complex digestive health capabilities
Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday. (Courtesy: Ascension Texas) 
Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday. (Courtesy: Ascension Texas) 
Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday. (Courtesy: Ascension Texas) 
Ascension Seton is allocating $280 million to expand and revamp the Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas at Austin, hospital representatives announced in a release Monday. (Courtesy: Ascension Texas)
It will also feature the addition of a third-level floor facing along Red River Street, as well as four new stories built on top of the current patient tower at 1500 Red River St.
“We are proud of this expansion of Dell Seton Medical Center as Ascension Seton builds on our world-class teaching facility, Level I Trauma and burn center and prestigious Magnet® designation awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center,” said Andy Davis, president and CEO of Ascension Texas, in the release. “We look forward to providing even more capabilities and infrastructure to expand access to high-quality, individualized care for all in Central Texas.”
This latest expansion comes after Ascension Seton invested $310 million into the creation of the Dell Seton Medical Center, which opened in May 2017. The center currently serves an 11-county area throughout Central Texas, as well as operates as a teaching hospital in conjunction with Dell Med and UT Health Austin.
In the nearly six years since it opened its doors to the public, Dell Seton Medical Center has seen more than 615,000 patients, performed over 61,000 surgeries and has received more than 454,000 emergency room visits, per the release.