Here's a look at six recent updates at health care facilities in the Heights, River Oaks and Montrose, as well as development updates ongoing at the Texas Medical Center.
1. Texas Children’s Pediatrics Heights
Texas Children’s Pediatrics in the Heights recently celebrated an expansion ribbon-cutting ceremony in March. The practice now has 40 exam rooms to accommodate the growing community, hospital officials said. The practice previously had 29 rooms. In July, TCP Heights will also onboard more providers from other Texas Children’s Pediatrics locations for a total of 11 physicians and a nurse practitioner.
Texas Children’s also launched virtual care kits in 2024 that help physicians virtually treat and diagnose common illnesses such as colds, allergies, minor cuts and pink eye.
- 2200 Yale St., Ste. 120, Houston
- www.texaschildrens.org
Memorial Hermann Greater Heights Hospital kicked off a multimillion-dollar major renovation of its Family Birthing Unit in January, hospital officials said.
Enhancements include increasing capacity; transforming the current two-room Obstetric Emergency Department into two labor, delivery, recovery and postpartum rooms; and converting existing offices to a procedure and lactation room. It will also upgrade furniture, finishes and equipment in the existing 29 patient rooms, with new flooring, bathrooms and nurses’ stations throughout the unit.
Renovations are expected to begin in the fall and be completed in mid- to late-2026.
- 1635 N. Loop W., Houston
- www.memorialhermann.org
The Advanced Diagnostics Healthcare System hospital announced the installation of a new GE Optima 128 Slice CT Scanner at the River Oaks Hospital & Clinics in March. According to the hospital’s social media page, the cutting-edge imaging technology enhances the clinic’s ability to provide faster, more precise and high-quality diagnostic studies for patients.
The scanner has advanced capabilities for CTA Coronary, which creates detailed images of the heart’s coronary arteries; Calcium Scoring, measuring the amount of calcified plaque in the coronary arteries; and Perfusion Scans, which show how well blood flows through an organ or tissue, according to the Mayo Clinic, a private American academic medical center.
- 4200 Twelve Oaks Place, Houston
- www.rohc.care
The 26-story Centennial Tower project, approved by the Houston Methodist Board of Directors in 2022, is anticipated to top out at 511 feet in early August, surpassing the height of the adjacent Walter Tower, Houston Methodist officials said. As of May, more than 2.2 million hours have been worked on by nearly 1,000 construction workers for the $1.4 billion Texas Medical Center project.
When completed, the tower will house nearly 400 patient beds and a new, larger emergency department, as well as enhanced imaging services.
Hospital officials said the project is on schedule and is anticipated to have a phased opening in April 2027.
- 6551 Bertner Ave., Houston
- www.houstonmethodist.org
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the Texas Children’s Hospital are collaborating to launch the Kinder Children’s Cancer Center in 2026, a new institution focusing on childhood cancer patients.
According to a May 14 news release, the new center will include inpatient beds, ambulatory care and state-of-the-art research labs. Another focus of the joint venture will be research, which will prioritize generating more cures for cancer by accelerating drug development and clinical trial programs to address unmet needs for children, hospital officials said.
- 6700 Main St., Houston
- www.kindercancercenter.org
Hospital officials announced in early 2025 that the McNair Campus, 7200 Cambridge St., relaunched its inpatient rehabilitation services and expanded its patient capacity in January. The 30-bed inpatient rehabilitation center serves patients who suffer from conditions such as stroke, traumatic brain injury, amputation and orthopedic injury.
Construction also started in January on the Texas Medical Center building to redesign the hospital’s main lobby, cafeteria and three nursing units. The main lobby will receive a valet area and a more spacious lobby. The $25 million project is slated to take four years to complete.
- McNair Campus: 7200 Cambridge St., Houston
- Baylor St. Luke's Medical Center: 1101 Bates Ave., Houston
- www.st.lukeshealth.org
