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Kelsey-Seybold Memorial City Opens Expanded Floor to Provide Enhanced Care and Services to the Community
HOUSTON (Aug. 15, 2022) – Memorial City opened its newly expanded 16th floor today and anticipates opening an expanded and renovated 14th floor early in 2023. The 16th floor expansion allows for a significant growth of services including general surgery, bariatric surgery, cardiology, plastic surgery/cosmetics and nuclear medicine. Additional services include cardiology diagnostics such as stress testing, nuclear medicine stress testing, general nuclear medicine studies, bariatric X-ray and echo/vascular ultrasound.
“With this expansion we are able to provide our patients more of the care and services they need at a clinic already recognized for its commitment to delivering high quality care,” said Jessica Stull, M.D., managing physician, Kelsey-Seybold – Memorial City. “Our physicians, nurses, and support staff are proud to bring enhanced services to our community.”
The clinic now occupies 38,500 square feet on the 14th and 16th floors of the Memorial Hermann Tower at 929 Gessner Road. Once construction is complete on the 14th floor, the clinic will grow to over 50,000 square feet occupying the entirety of the tower’s 14th and 16th floors.
When the 14th floor expansion opens in 2023, patients will have access to additional primary care physicians as well as specialties, including Pulmonary Medicine and Hospital Medicine. Patients will also have access to an expanded OB/GYN suite, which will include ultrasound and fetal nonstress testing rooms (NSTs), and additional procedure rooms. Once complete, the expanded Memorial City Clinic will have space for up to 21 providers.
“We are proud to offer our patients expanded care and services from providers they know and trust,” said Kim Kelley, clinic administrator, Kelsey-Seybold – Memorial City.
Other nearby Kelsey-Seybold clinics, including Tanglewood Clinic, River Oaks Clinic and Greater Heights Clinic, also serve the medical needs of West Central Houston.
About Kelsey-Seybold
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic is Houston's premier multispecialty group practice, founded in 1949 by Dr. Mavis Kelsey in Houston's renowned Texas Medical Center. More than 850 physicians and allied health professionals practice at 40 locations in the Greater Houston area. Kelsey-Seybold offers quality medical care in 65+ medical specialties. The organization operates the largest freestanding Ambulatory Surgery Center in the state of Texas and offers state-of-the-art Varian TrueBeam and Varian Edge radiation therapy technology at a nationally accredited Cancer Center. An accredited Sleep Center, comprehensive laboratory services, advanced imaging and diagnostics, 24 onsite Kelsey pharmacies and one specialty pharmacy, and MyKelseyOnline, a secure web portal, are part of its comprehensive offerings. Kelsey-Seybold partners with major insurers to offer value-based commercial health plans. KelseyCare Advantage, a Medicare Advantage plan offered to Houston-area beneficiaries and affiliated with Kelsey-Seybold Clinic, has achieved the coveted 5-out-of-5-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid for eight consecutive years.
Kelsey-Seybold has been recognized by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as the nation’s first accredited Accountable Care Organization and is home to a nationally accredited Breast Diagnostic Center and Endoscopy Center.
Kelsey-Seybold Clinic achieved a Net Promoter Score (NPS) of 91. NPS is the global standard for measuring customer loyalty and satisfaction. An NPS score of 70 or higher is considered by industry experts to be "world class" and an indicator of overwhelming customer loyalty.