This summer, Dell Seton Medical Center will open a Neuro ICU which will be the only facility in Central Texas with a fully dedicated unit and beds for neurocritical care.Since its opening, Dell Seton Medical Center has seen 3,143 stroke patients. Dell Seton Medical Center and Ascension Seton Medical Center Austin are the only comprehensive stroke centers in Austin.
They are also piloting the new National Donate Life Living Donor Registry in Texas. The center has since performed 9 donor surgeries and 11 recipient surgeries. Ascension Seton opened the new Adult Abdominal Transplant Center at Dell Seton Medical Center, a clinical alliance with UT Health Austin, performing its first living donor kidney transplant in February of 2022.Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas achieved the prestigious Magnet® designation awarded by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Magnet Recognition Program in August 2021.Because of the collaboration with Dell Med, Ascension Seton is able to provide the highest and most complex care within the network at the academic center.ĭell Seton Medical Center accomplishments since opening in 2017: Ascension Seton’s collaboration with Dell Med and UT Health Austin, the medical school’s clinical physician practice, provides a powerful platform to incubate innovation, advance clinical care and attract nationally-renowned physicians as well as cultivate new ones. In 2017 Ascension Seton invested $310 million to build a state-of-the-art facility, Dell Seton Medical Center at UT which serves a vital role in the region as the only adult Level I Trauma center (serving an 11-county area) and teaching hospital in Central Texas. “We are grateful for the investment being made by Ascension Seton and what it means for the people of Central Texas seeking healthcare, as well as advancing our joint commitment to the teaching hospital,” said Claudia Lucchinetti, Dean of Dell Medical School and Senior Vice President of Medical Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Plans for the additions to the facility included guidance from a number of Dell Seton Medical Center doctors, who gave valuable input on clinical, emergency care and inpatient/outpatient needs. Neurology, wound and burn care, oncology and abdominal transplant facilities.Six new operating rooms with pre-op and PACU space.The expansion includes the addition of a third-level floor on the building facing Red River Street, and the addition of four new stories built atop the existing patient tower at 1500 Red River St., and will include: “We look forward to providing even more capabilities and infrastructure to expand access to high-quality, individualized care for all in Central Texas.” “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 & CEO of Ascension Texas. The region’s only Level I Trauma Center will be adding 150 beds and more than 160,000 square feet that includes surgical, clinical and outpatient space a Neurosciences Center of Excellence additional ICU space and more. Ascension Seton announced today the $280 million expansion of Dell Seton Medical Center at the University of Texas to provide additional healthcare services to address the needs of the increasing population of Central Texas.
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