Medical City Plano to undergo $76 million expansion to answer high demand

Medical City Plano, Collin County’s only Level I Trauma Center, plans to double one of its towers.
The $76 million expansion is an answer to increased demand at the hospital and will add patient beds, jobs and care for cancer patients.
The project is planned to be finished by April 2026, and 131,700 square feet will be added to its C Tower, according to a filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.
The four-story tower opened in 2019 and will get four new floors, said Ben Coogan, CEO of Medical City Plano.
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Two floors will add 60 medical and surgical patient rooms, and two floors will have shell space for future patient rooms, according to the filing. The tower’s rooftop will have three helipads with support space for emergency medical services.
Medical City Plano is currently licensed for 603 inpatient beds, Coogan said. As a Level I Trauma Center, it provides the highest level of care for seriously injured patients.
“From a healthcare perspective, we provide everything with the exception of transplant services,” Coogan said. “We’re really Collin County’s only tertiary care facility, meaning we provide the highest level of care in every service line that you can achieve.”
Construction is slated to begin in April and take a year to complete.
The hospital saw increasing demand for health care services during and after the pandemic, Coogan said. Medical City made plans for expansion in response to population growth in Collin County.
Medical City has hospitals across North Texas and recently announced plans to expand its McKinney campus, an estimated $142 million project that will add more than 40 beds and 105,600 square feet to the site.
The tower expanding in Plano houses a lot of the hospital’s patients with serious and life-threatening conditions, Coogan said. It includes the burn ICU, trauma ICU and oncology floors. It also houses the Sarah Cannon Cancer Hospital, Coogan said, and the building’s expansion will increase the hospital’s cancer care services.
“It does allow us to expand some of our highest levels of care at Plano, which I think that’s really the most impactful thing about it,” Coogan said.
Medical City Plano is a major employer in the city, according to the city’s economic development agency, with over 1,000 employees. The expansion will add more jobs to the campus.
“We have partnerships with a lot of our area colleges and programs to build the healthcare workforce,” Coogan said. “When we have expansions like this, we tap into those partnerships.”
Through a partnership with Collin College, Tarrant County College and Medical City Healthcare, students can get financial support to earn a degree in nursing to then work for Medical City. Mark Smith, campus provost at Collin College, sees the benefit for students and for providing a growing county with medical care.
“Medical City has been a very good partner for us. They afford us the opportunity to get our learners the clinical opportunities that they need,” Smith said. “Without the availability that they provide us, we would have severe difficulty being able to graduate the number of people that we’re putting out.”