Houston IVF recently opened a new state-of-the-art Infertility Center on
the campus of Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center in Houston, Texas.
The 26,000 square-foot facility, located at 929 Gessner Road and the I-10
Freeway, provides a one-stop shop for infertility treatment, and includes four
embryo transfer rooms, two egg retrieval rooms, and a certified laboratory
deemed ‘one of the cleanest in the world’ by Antonia Gilligan, President of
Alpha Environmental, Inc.
The new infertility center is one of the
centerpieces of the new $500 million, 36-story Memorial Hermann Tower, which the
hospital is promoting as ‘the new center of Houston medicine,’ and the largest
structure on the I-10 corridor in West Houston. Recent additions to the Memorial
City campus are aimed at providing the quality care of the Texas Medical Center
without the perceived logistical inconvenience. “Couples coming to Houston IVF
can be sure that they are receiving world-class care in a calm, peaceful, and
pleasant environment” said Timothy Hickman, medical director of Houston
IVF.
Hickman notes that the planning for the new center took over a
year. “Our layout is modeled in part after the Cornell program in New York City,
where all services are offered in a skyscraper-like facility, and modeled in
part after our sister clinic, the Colorado Center for Reproductive Medicine,
which boasts one of the best IVF laboratories in the world.” Houston IVF
occupies the 23rd floor of the new structure, doubling the capacity of their
previous offices.
In addition to assisted reproductive technology (ART),
the center will offer counseling services to patients, and provide clinical and
andrology laboratory testing services in the new center. Houston IVF’s fertility
experts will also be available at two additional locations throughout the
greater Houston area: The Woodlands and the Texas Medical Center.