Restoration experts have assessed the damage, but hospital officials declined to estimate when the new hospital might open.
Credit:A water line break at University Health’s new $573.7 million Women’s & Children’s Hospital at the South Texas Medical Center will delay what was to be anA “fire sprinkler standpipe” in one of the hospital’s stairwells ruptured last week, according to a news release issued by University Health, flooding the stairwell, hallways and adjacent rooms throughout the 12-story building.
The 1.1 million-square-foot hospital will feature 300 patient beds, a children’s emergency department, a women’s center for obstetrics and gynecology, labor and delivery rooms and C-section rooms, and pediatric and neonatal intensive care units. Joeris and JE Dunn has “pledged to make these repairs as quickly as possible and are being proactive in ordering materials that will need to be replaced,” according to Tuesday’s statement. An after-hours call to a JE Dunn spokeswoman was not immediately returned.
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