Saint Camillus Hospital plans to open in mid July in the former Victory Medical Center building, 1612 Hurst Town Center Drive near the bustling Airport Freeway corridor. (Star-Telegram/Max Faulkner) mfaulkner@star-telegram.com
BY ELIZABETH CAMPBELL
HURST
A vacant medical center will soon be home to a small state-of-the-art hospital that will serve the growing Mid-Cities area.
Dallas Medical Center’s Richard Buch, MD, performed the first ever total humerus replacement in the United States using implantcast’s MUTARS.
implantcast is very well-known in Europe, but has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for wide-spread use in the United States. Hence, each case must be approved by the FDA on a case-by-case basis.
The Medical Center at Tower Plaza, a nearly 65,000 square foot hospital to be located on Southlake Blvd in the heart of Southlake’s business development area, is set to open November of 2011. Not only will the City of Southlake now house a state-of-the-art general hospital for its residents, but the facility will be a center of surgical excellence bringing in patients from all over the state.
Back in 1996, when Plano Surgery Center welcomed its first patient through the glass enclosure that formed its entryway, a small group of physicians marked the occasion by performing a procedure they had done many times before. There was little celebration and hardly any applause – a far cry from the way one expects to remember the beginning of a new chapter,