DALLAS – September 17, 2022 – Thousands of residents, business owners and regional leaders gathered Saturday for the community celebration for the opening of UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird, the largest of its regional campuses and the first to bring academic medicine to the booming South Dallas area.
The two-story, 150,000 square foot campus is UT Southwestern’s sixth regional outpatient medical center offering a host of primary care, cardiac and oncology services. The facility also provides laboratory services, a full-service pharmacy, and advanced imaging technologies such as MRIs and CT scans, as well as women’s health services such as mammography. Specialty care coming later this year includes neurological services at the Peter O’Donnell Jr. Brain Institute and a culinary medicine program.
RedBird’s 150,000 square foot UT Southwestern Medical Center offers a host of services, including advanced imaging technologies.
UT Southwestern is ranked among the nation’s top 40 providers for cancer, heart, and neurology care, as well as multiple specialties, including diabetes, gastroenterology, geriatrics, and endocrinology services by US News and World Reports Best hospitals.
“I have been a patient at UT Southwestern for many years and love the doctors. And it’s right down the street from my house – I didn’t have to drive through downtown traffic,” said DeSoto retiree and 25-year UTSW patient Debra J. Wilson. one of the first patients seen at the center. . “I love it. It reminds me so much of downtown UT Southwest.
UT Southwestern at RedBird, located on the east end of the Reimagine RedBird development facing Camp Wisdom Road near US 67 south of downtown Dallas, is expected to help meet the medical needs of patients who live or work in Oak Cliff, DeSoto, Duncanville, Cedar Hill, Lancaster and surrounding areas looking for UT Southwestern’s hallmark of academic medical expertise, said John Warner, MD, executive vice president for health system affairs.
“Residents of South Dallas have had a shortage of nearby health care treatment options, and UT Southwestern is eager to help fill that void,” said Dr. Warner, a preventive cardiologist who serves as the system’s CEO. of UT Southwestern Health. “We are committed to building lasting relationships within the community and have engaged those who live and work in the area, so we understand their wide range of health care needs. These conversations have informed our strategy to provide more convenient access to our specialists who work together to ensure the best outcomes and experience for our patients and their families. »
Primary care services at UT Southwestern Medical Center at RedBird also include diabetes and depression management and screening. Cardiology services include preventive and diagnostic care to treat conditions such as hypertension and abnormal heart rhythm. The Harold C. Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at UT Southwestern, the only National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive center in the area and ranked among the nation’s top 25 hospitals for cancer services, offers hematology care / oncology, including a suite of new rooms for infusion therapy to treat cancer, sickle cell disease and other diseases. Later this year, the O’Donnell Brain Institute will provide neurological care to RedBird.
Patients can access a phlebotomy lab to collect and test blood and urine specimens, a full-service pharmacy, and mammography and other advanced imaging including MRI, CT scan, ultrasound and radiography.
UT Southwestern’s Culinary Medicine program will eventually be part of the innovative approaches to care available at UT Southwestern RedBird Medical Center, with an emphasis on community education that empowers people to make food, nutrition and healthy foods a component of disease prevention and management.
RedBird’s new medical center has both dedicated physicians and healthcare practitioners – some of whom live and grew up in the community and wanted to transfer their practice to the area – as well as physicians who divide their time between RedBird and William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital, recently ranked by US News and World Report as the No. 1 hospital in Dallas-Fort Worth for the sixth consecutive year.
Ericka Walker Williams, MD, assistant professor of internal medicine and board certified in internal medicine and rheumatology, welcomed the first patient – who lives near RedBird. “She had seen me once on main campus before and decided to come here to establish her care,” said Dr. Williams, who specializes in primary and preventative care, type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and systemic lupus.
“Residents and businesses have made clear the need for expanded and leading health care services in the community, so we are delighted, not only with the commitment to dozens of essential services tailored specifically to this region, but also of the level of care that UT Southwestern is known to provide,” said Peter Brodsky, majority owner and developer of Reimagine RedBird. “UTSW’s latest announcement further demonstrates the transformational momentum that continues to energize our RedBird project.”
About UT Southwestern Medical Center
UT Southwestern, one of the nation’s leading academic medical centers, integrates pioneering biomedical research with exceptional clinical care and education. The institution’s faculty has received six Nobel Prizes and includes 26 members of the National Academy of Sciences, 17 members of the National Academy of Medicine, and 14 researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Full-time faculty of more than 2,900 are responsible for groundbreaking medical advances and committed to rapidly translating scientific research into new clinical treatments. UT Southwestern physicians provide care in more than 80 specialties to more than 100,000 inpatients, more than 360,000 emergency room cases, and oversee nearly 4 million outpatient visits annually.
