Regency Hospital Breaks Ground in North Dallas

Regency Hospital Company announced today that the company has officially broken ground at their newest hospital site in Carrollton, Texas. Regency Hospital Company officials, along with Regency’s Construction Division celebrated the ground breaking with a special ceremony. Regency Hospital of North Dallas is scheduled to open in the Spring of 2006.

Regency Hospital of North Dallas will be a 44-bed freestanding Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospital. Regency Hospital will provide intensive critical care to medically complex patients needing acute care intervention and therapy for a longer time period that the traditional hospital is designed to provide.

Regency Hospital Company has spent the last year working with consultants to develop and finalize architectural, structural and engineering design plans, in order to provide a state of the art free-standing LTAC hospital. “We are pleased to bring this hospital to the North Dallas area and to provide this very specialized level of care,” commented Rod Laughlin, President and CEO of Regency Hospital Company.

“Regency Hospital will be a tremendous asset, not only to Dallas, but to the entire region,” stated George Bruton, Vice President of Construction and Design. “This hospital will be one of the finest LTAC hospitals in the country,” he continued.

Steve Laughlin has been appointed CEO of Regency Hospital of North Dallas and also of the Ft. Worth project. Laughlin has been a member of the Ft. Worth and Dallas healthcare communities for several years. “I look forward to bringing Regency to this area. We have a stellar program that results in outstanding clinical outcomes,” commented Steve Laughlin.

Regency Hospital Company is a leading developer of Long Term Acute Care (LTAC) hospitals across the United States. Regency presently has sixteen hospitals open including one in Odessa, Texas with several more in active development including plans for building another hospital at a site in Fort Worth. Regency was formed by Rod Laughlin and Waud Capital Partners. For more information, please visit www.regencyhospital.com and/or www.waudcapital.com

 Regency Hospital of North Dallas 2225 Parker Road Carrollton, Texas 75010