El Paso University Medical Center allocates $400M to healthcare centers 

EL PASO – The University Medical Center of El Paso (UMC) will invest $396.6 million to expand healthcare access through new facilities and upgrades.  

Plans include an on-campus burn center with two operating rooms and inpatient care, and additional specialized patient rooms to provide controlled temperatures for patients.  

The initiative also includes plans to build a geriatric clinic in central El Paso and an outpatient clinic in Horizon City. 

Other facilities across campus will get enhanced critical care beds, operating rooms, cardiac catheterization rooms, and improved imaging and laboratory services. 

Additionally, $30 million will fund the region’s first comprehensive cancer center, which will house infusion centers for UMC and El Paso Children’s Hospital, along with a pharmacy for cancer medications.