Lakeway Regional Medical Center
Lakeway, Texas
Lakeway Regional Medical Center will be constructed within a new medical and mixed-use development located in Lakeway, Texas, just minutes west of Austin. This 230,000-square-foot greenfield facility will serve as the primary acute care hospital for that community and provide a full continuum of both inpatient and outpatient services including cardiology, obstetrics, oncology, and orthopedics. Upon opening, the facility will include 108 licensed beds with shell space to accommodate an additional 40 beds as demand for those beds is expected to be met within a short timeframe after the facility opens. Lakeway Regional will also provide a full array of diagnostic and treatment services, including an emergency department/urgent care clinic planned for up to 40,000 visits per year.
The site for this facility is spectacular and will afford patients, staff and visitors exceptional views to the Central Texas hills, valleys and lakes beyond. Although beautiful, the site does create design challenges as contours drop over 80 feet from one end of the site to the other. Because of this, as well as limited acreage available for the hospital, the building massing takes advantage of this slope by placing the main entry three floors above the lowest level with each of those lower levels having access to landscaped courtyards and views to a man-made water feature that abuts the site.
Key to the building program is the ability for the facility to expand, because the Lakeway community has experienced a steady growth pattern for over a decade that is expected to continue. The building plan has been designed to permit lateral expansion at each level as well as vertical expansion for additional inpatient beds. A 100,000-square-foot Medical Office Building will be connected via sky bridge to the acute care hospital.