FORT WORTH, Texas — Texas Health Harris Methodist Hospital Southwest Fort Worth is expanding to provide more services and higher complexity care for patients with the construction of a new 5-story patient tower with shell space to accommodate future community growth and additional campus renovations.

The bed tower will be constructed on the current site of the Virginia Clay Dorman Breast Care Center, which will continue to care for women and their breast health in a new location inside Pease Tower with a convenient entrance from the lobby of the new tower.

Two of the patient floors in the new tower, which will add 64 beds to the hospital, are expected to open in 2028. The tower will include shell space for additional beds and will also be designed for future vertical expansion.

The renovation and expansion, an estimated $223 million investment, also includes the modernization of six original operating rooms to enhance surgical services for our patients.

“Southwest Fort Worth and the surrounding communities of Benbrook, Crowley, Aledo and Granbury have grown by leaps and bounds since Texas Health Southwest first opened our doors in 1987 and Texas Health is committed to keeping pace with their growing healthcare needs,” said Ajith Pai, PharmD, FACHE, president of Texas Health Southwest. “With this new tower and renovations, we’ll have the capacity to serve even more residents and a more modernized surgical department to better accommodate robotic and other surgeries, providing patients higher complexity care.”

The 2014 opening of the Chisholm Trail Parkway, the tolled highway connecting Fort Worth to Cleburne, has continued to spur a surge of economic and population growth in Southwest Fort Worth. According to the North Central Texas Council of Governments, Southwest Fort Worth is projected to add roughly 90,000 people by 2045.

“As a healthcare provider of choice for more North Texans than any other health system, Texas Health is dedicated to providing consumers with accessible, quality care close to home,” said Kirk King, COO of Texas Health’s Hospital Channel. “To achieve this, we not only invest in new access points like ambulatory and virtual care offerings but also on improving consumer experiences through enhancements to our existing facilities and services offered.”

The project at Texas Health Southwest follows the hospital’s completion in 2024 of an electrophysiology (EP) and cardiac catheterization expansion and renovation project to meet the growing demand for cardiovascular services. Last year, the hospital also refurbished its cafeteria, creating a user-friendly, modern space for visitors and staff. In recent years, the hospital also renovated its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU), doubling its capacity.

Texas Health Southwest’s expansion is part of the health system’s larger growth initiative, which includes the construction of a new eight-story tower at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital Plano and the building out of the seventh floor of Texas Health Hospital Frisco that will add 20 new patient rooms to the hospital’s medical/surgical unit. Construction also recently started on Texas Health Hospital Forney, the city’s first acute care hospital.

Texas Health Southwest was recently ranked in the top ten of Dallas-Fort Worth’s best hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, rated as High Performing in back surgery (spinal fusion), chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes, heart attack, hip fracture, hip replacement, kidney failure and knee replacement.

“We are continually exploring innovative enhancements at our facility that enable us to expand services and improve patient outcomes and experience,” Pai said. “This latest expansion and renovation further reflect Texas Health Southwest’s continued dedication to providing exceptional care and becoming an even stronger ally in the health and well-being of the community.”