The hospital, scheduled to open in April, will offer a variety of medical services, many of which have only been available more than 20 miles away in Austin for residents in the Lakeway area.
“In the past, if you had any kind of serious illness or accident, it’s a long way down to most of the hospitals in this town,” Lakeway Mayor Dave DeOme said. “That’s always been an issue.”
LRMC CEO David Kreye said he became convinced of the benefits of having an acute care hospital nearby when his son had a medical emergency. He said having the hospital close to home in San Antonio was a potential lifesaver.
“If I didn’t have a hospital close, the outcome might have been different,” he said. “We’re excited to be able to offer that same kind of real high level of service so close to home.”
The 274,500-square-foot LRMC will offer a wide variety of services and specialties, including cardiology and cardiothoracic work, women’s health, physical therapy and sports medicine, gastrointestinal, respiratory and speech-language pathology services. There will be 20 emergency rooms, six operating rooms and two cesarean section suites. The hospital will have state-of-the-art equipment and electronic medical records.
The hospital’s primary service area will be the approximately 100,000 people in Lakeway and surrounding areas.
“This [hospital] really satisfies a need that’s out here,” DeOme said.
Employment
LRMC is expected to become the biggest Lakeway employer, Lake Travis Chamber of Commerce President Laura Mitchell said.
The medical center will employ approximately 250 people when it opens, with about 110 of those being doctors. The medical center could employ 500 people by the end of the first year as it grows and 1,000 people after the third year, Kreye said.
Kreye said LRMC has been getting about 15 resumes a day through its website. He said a majority of the resumes are from highly qualified professionals in the Austin area.
“We are really excited there are so many well-trained, high-end professional folks right here that are willing and excited about the project and want to serve their community and have real true high-quality health care right here at home,” he said.
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