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Houston Methodist Unveils Walter Tower

Members of the media received a sneak peek at Houston Methodist Hospital’s new 22-story Paula and Joseph C. “Rusty” Walter III Tower on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The building, which encompasses nearly 1 million square feet, will welcome its first patients on Aug. 27.

“We started this project in March of 2014 and, ever since then, we have been running like crazy to get this thing completed,” said Jim Hicks, vice president of capital planning at Houston Methodist.

Built on Bertner Avenue, Walter Tower sits on land that formerly housed the Favrot Hall apartments. The new tower conveniently connects patients, nurses and doctors to all the other Houston Methodist Hospital buildings and garages in the Texas Medical Center.

Like other Houston Methodist structures, Walter Tower was given a theme—Texas Skies. Various hues of blue were used on the building’s exterior and interior while many of the commissioned art pieces and employee photographs depict nature and outdoor scenes.

Walter Tower is equipped with 366 patient beds, four hybrid cardiovascular operating rooms, two neuro operating rooms, and a helipad.