Baylor Scott & White has completed construction on the six-story inpatient building at the center of its $240 million healthcare expansion in Waxahachie, Texas, a southern suburb of Dallas. The building, the largest phase of the broader project, raises the licensed bed count at Baylor Scott & White Medical Center – Waxahachie from 140 to 199 — an increase of 59 beds, or roughly 42 percent more capacity than the campus previously held.

The delivery marks a rapid build cycle. Construction began in spring 2024, meaning the structure moved from groundbreaking to completion in well under two years.

What does the new building contain?

The six-story inpatient building adds three clinical components to the campus:

• An intensive care unit, giving the facility critical-care capacity it is now scaling around the new bed count
• A surgery department, expanding procedural services on the campus
• An expanded emergency department, enlarging the site's front door for acute cases in the growing southern Dallas suburb market

Together the additions take the medical center from a 140-bed community hospital profile to a 199-bed facility — close to a 50 percent larger licensed operation on the same site.

Where is the expansion taking place?

The work is concentrated on a 52-acre campus that opened in 2014. In the roughly eleven years since the campus first opened, the facility has now doubled down on inpatient capacity: the original footprint supported 140 licensed beds, and the completed expansion phase brings that figure to 199.

Waxahachie sits south of Dallas, and the project positions the campus to serve demand in the southern suburbs of the metroplex, where the healthcare system has committed $240 million across the broader expansion program.

Who delivered the project?

Three firms executed the build:

• HKS served as architect
• Whiting-Turner acted as general contractor
• Henderson Engineers handled engineering services

The design-and-build team delivered the largest single phase of the $240 million program, with construction starting in spring 2024 and now reported complete.

How large is the investment in context?

The $240 million commitment covers the broader expansion project on the campus, of which the six-story inpatient building is the largest single piece. Spread across the 52-acre site, the program translates to an investment of roughly $4.6 million per acre. Measured against the 59 new licensed beds, the inpatient building phase alone anchors a substantial share of that spending.

For the health system, the project converts a decade-old suburban campus — opened in 2014 with 140 beds — into a 199-bed facility with intensive care, surgical capacity and an enlarged emergency department under one roof.

The completed building is now the operational centerpiece of Baylor Scott & White's Waxahachie expansion.