Waxahachie Hospital Tower Marks $240M Expansion Milestone
Baylor Scott & White’s Waxahachie campus has completed a new patient tower, reaching a major milestone within a broader $240 million expansion program.
A six-story addition at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie is the latest completed element of the hospital’s expansion. Healthcare Design reported the milestone on September 21, identifying the tower as the largest phase of the wider program.
The report puts inpatient capacity at 199 beds, compared with 140 before the addition. The $240 million figure describes the expansion program; it should not be read as the isolated price of the new tower.
Project at a Glance
- Campus:
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie
- Wider expansion program:
- $240 million
- Tower:
- Six stories
- Reported inpatient capacity:
- 199 beds
- Architect:
- HKS
- General contractor:
- Whiting-Turner
- Milestone:
- Patient tower completion reported September 21
Building on an Established Hospital Campus
The hospital’s own information places the campus near Interstate 35 and Highway 287 on a 52-acre site. Its services include emergency care and a range of inpatient and outpatient specialties.
An addition in this setting has a different construction context from an isolated new building. Access, connections to existing facilities and the transition into occupied space all matter to the usefulness of the completed investment. These are considerations for understanding the project, rather than a claim about the contractor’s specific work sequence.
The Team Behind the Expansion
Healthcare Design credits HKS with the architecture, Whiting-Turner with construction and Henderson Engineers with mechanical, electrical, plumbing and fire/life-safety engineering. Its report also describes work involving intensive care, surgery, emergency services and parking within the broader expansion.
For the regional construction market, the milestone provides a concrete example of a large healthcare program reaching delivery. It should be tracked as completed work rather than promoted as a newly announced tower contract.
What Happens After a Tower Is Delivered?
Completion coverage does not necessarily establish that every part of a multiphase campus program has finished. Individual departments, support areas and future fit-outs can have separate milestones, so the tower’s status should remain distinct from the status of the overall investment.
The next useful information for readers is a clear account of any remaining phases and their schedules. That would show where further construction activity may occur without implying that additional contracts have already been released.
The September publication date is the date of the report used here, not a claim that all construction or patient moves happened on that day.