Here are four things to know:
1. The new name applies to all 13 hospitals in the HCA North Texas network as well as seven off-campus hospital emergency departments.
2. The network also includes 11 ambulatory surgery locations, six children’s urgent care centers and the CareNow urgent care network. The name change will not affect these facilities.
3. The name change coincides with more than $1.5 billion in healthcare-related capital investments, which HCA North Texas spent or committed in the last three years.
4. In 2015, the network’s hospitals saw 114,000 patient admissions and 2.2 million outpatient visits.
“Medical City is a trusted name with an immediately recognizable reputation for quality healthcare,” said Erol Akdamar, president of Medical City Healthcare, in a statement. “We’ve always been a family, and now the public and our patients will be able to immediately identify our expansive system of care in their own communities.”
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