$72M expansion underway at Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital

By Florian Martin, Houston Business Journal

Three years after its last expansion, Memorial Hermann Cypress Hospital will again add more square footage to its campus to keep up with the area’s fast growth, the Houston-based health system has announced.

Work is already underway to build out the second floor of the existing hospital’s south tower to add a new nursing unit, including 40 patient beds on 35,000 square feet. That floor had been shell space since the hospital opened in 2017, said Jerry Ashworth, senior vice president and CEO of Memorial Hermann Cypress and Katy hospitals.

Also part of the $71.8 million expansion is the construction of a second, 100,000-square-foot professional office building, a parking garage and additional surface parking as well as a two-story, 50,000-square-foot orthopedic sports medicine facility with a sports field that can host community sports leagues.

The Memorial Hermann Sports Park-Cypress is a collaboration between Memorial Hermann, Athlete Training and Health and UT Physicians Orthopedics. It will provide medical care and athletic training for professional athletes, youth athletes and adults with orthopedic injuries, similar to Memorial Hermann’s facility at its Katy campus.

The 32-acre Cypress campus is on the northeast side of Highway 290, south of Mason Road and north of Mueschke Road. Its expansion is a response to strong population growth in the Cypress area, which is outpacing growth in Greater Houston overall, Ashworth said.

“This is not just about us adding beds or adding buildings,” he said. “This is about us growing and expanding our clinical programs, so trying to ensure that we have the level of care, the services that are needed in this community so that the people in the Cypress community do not have to travel into Houston proper to receive that level of care to the best of our ability.”

Overall, the expansion will bring an additional 185,000 square feet and more than 500 parking spaces to the campus and increase the number of beds to 145.

This is the campus’ first major expansion since 2019, when Memorial Hermann added 24 beds, new units and laboratories.

The hospital has now more than 1,100 affiliated physicians representing 65 specialties, Ashworth said, and Memorial Hermann is actively recruiting more, including a neurologist and a neurosurgeon.

The expansion will add more staff to the campus, both physicians and other positions, though Ashworth could not say how many in total.

“We could be close to adding 30 to 40 employees to the mix, just related to that one nursing unit,” he said.