Texas system plans $100 million expansion

Six-hospital St. David's HealthCare Partnership, Austin, Texas, announced $100 million of capital projects, including an expansion of its Round Rock (Texas) Medical Center, where surgical capacity will be doubled. The system also will expand a women's center and install a gamma knife for brain surgery at its flagship, St. David's Medical Center in Austin, and build an outpatient surgery center at its North Austin (Texas) Medical Center. St. David's said the projects will bring its total capital investments to $460 million since its formation as a partnership with HCA, Nashville, in 1996. -- by Mary Chris Jaklevic