DHR Health plans $17.2M expansion of its Brownsville hospital to meet demand

Doctors Hospital at Renaissance is expanding its hospital in Brownsville to keep up with patient demand for services, including more specialists in Cameron County. 

DHR Health Brownsville has worked with clinics in the city for the past decade. Nearly three years ago, it retrofitted an 80,000-square-foot, long-shuttered hospital that sits along U.S. 77 in Brownsville. 

DHR expects to renovate 14,000 square feet of the three-story hospital and spend at least $17 million to do that. The hospital, with 59 inpatient beds and an intensive care unit, is doubling the number of operating rooms to 12, adding six more bays in the emergency department, and expanding the ER waiting room. 

Plans also include retrofitted radiology, two catheterization labs, and enhanced equipment, including MRI and CT scanners. Plus, more specialists, from orthopedics to gastroenterology and surgery, are expected to work out of the Brownsville hospital in the coming months.