20 - Year Growth Plan - City of Kendleton

QUALITY OF PLACEHealth CareThere are currently no doctors or medical facilities located within Kendleton city limits, but numerouslocal physicians practice in nearby Richmond and Rosenberg. Rosenberg is also home to a pediatric carecenter. The following facilities are located within 34 miles of Kendleton:• Gulf Coast Medical Center is located in Wharton, Texas, approximately 12 miles from Kendleton.The facility is a regional health care provider serving Wharton and the surrounding 6 countiesthrough a partnership with more than 50 area physicians, making it the largest comprehensivemedical center between Houston and Victoria. Diagnostic, medical, specialty, surgical, andwomen’s health services are available at the Gulf Coast Medical Center.• Oak Bend Medical Center is located approximately 18 miles from Kendleton in Richmond, Texas.The center provides emergency services and describes cancer, heart, stroke, and women’s careas its “signature services” although the facility also features nursing, clinical, wound care, andsenior care, as well as a cath lab and a health and fitness center.• Memorial Hermann Sugar Land Hospital is located in Sugar Land, Texas, approximately 24 milesfrom Kendleton. The facility offers services in back pain, cancer, children’s care, diabeteseducation, heart and vascular care, an imaging center, neuroscience, outpatient care, physicaland occupation therapy, sports medicine, women’s care, and wound care.• Methodist Sugar Land Hospital, approximately 24.8 miles from Kendleton and located withinHouston, is nationally ranked in 13 specialties by U.S. News and World Report as a part of theMethodist Hospital System. The Methodist Sugar Land hospital, specifically, offers a birthingcenter, a cancer center, cardiovascular services, emergency care, gastroenterology, an ICU,imaging and diagnostic services, laboratory services, nursing, a pharmacy, and physical therapy/rehabilitation services.• Sugar Land Surgical Hospital, approximately 26 miles, performs over 3,800 surgeries andprocedures per year in 4 operating rooms and 2 endoscopy rooms. There are over 50 physicianson staff and surgeons perform procedures in the specialty areas of: ear, nose, and throat;general surgery; gynecology; orthopedics; pain management; pediatric surgery; plastic surgery;and podiatry.• Triumph Hospital Southwest, located approximately 27 miles from Kendleton, is an acute longtermcare facility with an 18‐bed ICU and 87 medical/surgical beds. Services offered include anAppendix A, Page 49