About

Methodist West Houston Hospital is a full service acute care hospital that brings the Methodist tradition of excellence and leading medicine to the West Houston/Katy community.

• Located at I–10 and Barker Cypress
• 478,500 square feet
• 193 beds
• 15 operating rooms
• 26 labor and delivery suites
• 28 emergency room beds
• 2 radiation therapy vaults
• 3 cardiac catheterization labs
• Full service imaging center with 3T (3 Tesla) MRI and PET CT
• 25 seat chapel with professional spiritual care staff
• Adjoining 150,000 square foot medical office building

Key service lines include:

• Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery
• Neurology and Neurosurgery
• Orthopedics/Sports Medicine
• Oncology Services
• Women´s Services (labor and delivery, neonatal intensive care, breast center)
  • Multidisciplinary patient care coordination teams
  • Daily leadership rounds
  • Specific staff training and education based on their work unit and specialty
  • ICU staffed 24/7 by board–certified intensivists – delivering a higher standard of care based on the Leapfrog Group´s ICU staffing guidelines.
  • Robotic surgical systems add greater precision and promote faster recovery
  • Hybrid operating room is designed for a combination cardiology/cardiac/vascular surgery procedures – eliminating the need for multiple trips to the operating room
  • Cardiac catheterization suites allow for both diagnostic and invasive cardiac procedures, enabling immediate treatment
  • 64 slice CT and 3 Tesla (3T) MRI are the latest imaging technologies capable of providing the highest resolution images
  • Fully–integrated electronic patient medical record with computerized physician order entry
  • All private patient rooms
  • Room service dining
  • ICU rooms with bathrooms for family members
  • NICU with accommodations for parents to stay with their baby
  • Full service cafeteria
  • Coffee bars and business centers on each floor
  • Gift shop
  • Convenient parking
  • 25-seat chapel with professional chaplains on staff
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Our Commitment to Clinical Excellence

Clinical excellence at Methodist West Houston begins with highly–trained medical staff comprised of both local and Methodist physicians representing all medical specialties and subspecialties. These professionals collaborate to provide comprehensive, patient–centered clinical treatment programs including heart and vascular, cancer, neurosciences, orthopedics, urology, and women´s services.

Our number one motivation at Methodist West Houston is to have the highest quality and be the preferred health care provider in your community. Here are four examples of the many ways we ensure that a high level of clinical excellence is maintained:

Our State–of–the–Art Technology

Providing clinical excellence is made possible by the state–of–the–art equipment and technology at Methodist West Houston:

Our Enhanced Patient Experience

A comfortable, spiritual environment has been created at MWHH with a chapel, private patient rooms, private consultation rooms throughout the hospital and a 24/7 chaplaincy service staffed by professional chaplains. Patient accommodations are designed for maximum patient and family comfort:

Our Commitment to Quality and Patient Safety

Patient safety is the result of our ongoing commitment to ensuring staff competence including continuing education and always following the latest standards of care. Building on our commitment to safety, quality of care is driven by a collaborative approach to patient care between physicians and all departments of the hospital.

Since patient safety and quality go hand–in–hand, Methodist West Houston is committed to improving communication among caregivers, identifying patients correctly, determining patient safety risks, using proven guidelines on infection prevention and treatment like hand hygiene, and practicing medication safety by labeling and checking all patient medications.