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in July 2018. Construction of the five-story South Tower, which includes the additional patient beds, is expected to be completed around May 2020. MD Anderson In 2018, MD Anderson, part of the University of Texas system, finished constructing a $110 million, 200,000-square- foot, full-service outpatient cancer center at the UTMB League City campus. The world-renowned cancer treatment center is expected to open its League City location in September 2018, marking the first-ever clinical collaboration between the sister institutions. Staff at the League City location will include three medical oncologists, six surgical oncologists, two radiation oncologists and a professor in pain medicine. Memorial Hermann Memorial Hermann also expanded in the League City area, with a Convenient Care Center opening in early 2018 along the south boundary of Pinnacle Park at Interstate 45 and Big League Dreams Parkway. The 47,000-square-foot facility is the largest of its kind for Memorial Hermann and offers a free-standing 24-hour emergency facility as well as providing a highly coordinated access to adult and pediatric primary care through Memorial Hermann Medical Group, specialty physicians, sports medicine and rehabilitation, on-site imaging and lab services, a breast center and physical therapy. Patients that require a higher level of care than the Convenient Care Center can provide can be transferred to the Memorial Hermann Southeast, Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center or Children’s Memorial Hermann Hospital. League City Regional Chamber of Commerce | 21