Medical City Fort Worth (Texas) broke ground on a $64 million patient tower Monday, which will house the facility's emergency department, according to the Star-Telegram.
The tower will be erected just west of the main hospital, with an aerial walkway connecting the two facilities.
Officials said the first floor of the three-story tower will be reserved for the hospital's 30-room ED. The space will also include two trauma rooms, three resuscitation rooms and an additional room "equipped for the safety of behavioral health patients," according to the report.
The tower will also feature an expanded intensive care unit with 28 beds, a rooftop helipad and space for the hospital's liver transplant program, which launched in January.
The project was part of the hospital's $100 million expansion project, funded by its parent company, Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Holdings, according to the report.
The tower is scheduled to open in 2019.