Known for its prime location adjacent to the entrance of the Westpark Tollway, Lakemont is home to lakes, parks, to recreation centers and top builders. In addition to Lennar, Lakemont features new homes by Perry Homes, Brighton Homes, J. Patrick Homes. Prices start in the $130,000s.

Enhancing its prime location is a long and growing list of conveniences close home, and minutes away for residents of this growing community.

Christus St. Catherine Hospital

The Christus St. Catherine Hospital on South Fry Road has recently completed a $50 million expansion. The hospital has more than 400 physicians and 664 employees of which 244 are nurses. The expansion has yielded a new women's imaging center, a second catheterization lab and the only positron emission tomography in Katy. It has recently added two additional floors on our new tower that are already shelled.

This nonprofit hospital is also the only hospital-based Sleep Center in Katy.

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital

Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital is now open. The facility, which opened about a year ago, represents a $100 million construction cost with the result being a 127-room, 310,000-square-foot facility with the latest technology. The facility also has four operating tables and a cystoscopy room, and it employs 790 workers including physicians. Recently, the Texas Department of State Health Services designated Katy Hospital as the only Level IV trauma facility in the Katy area according a report in the Katy Times. Specialty services include orthopedic surgery, heart and vascular diagnosis and treatment, cancer services, women's health and advanced diagnostic imaging. Life Flight is also able to land at Memorial Hermann Katy Hospital.

The explosive growth of the west Houston area is evident in the success of master-planned Lakmeont, known for its outstanding master plan and prime location at the entrance of the Westpark Toll Road. New developments are making Lakemont even more appealing with the addition of new campuses of world-class medical center facilities now in the west Houston/Katy area. All within easy access for residents of Lakemont, new facilities - both under construction and newly opened, will provide quality health care and a wide range of services to residents of all ages, close to home.

Texas Children's Hospital is building its newest campus in West Houston and will open next year. This new hospital will serve residents in west Houston and Katy with the same world renowned health care and technology as the original location in the Texas Medical Center. The 55-acre site is located at I-10 and Barker-Cypress. Texas Children's Hospital reports that by 2010, Texas Children's Hospital will be one of the largest suburban pediatric medical centers in the nation. The hospital will be licensed for 96 intermediate and acute beds, an emergency center, inpatient and outpatient operating rooms, an ambulatory care facility, diagnostic imaging, physical medicine and rehabilitation services, medical subspecialty care and physician office space.

When open, the new campus will be known as the first community hospital just for kids. The building is planned to open in late 2009.

Methodist Hospital Construction is also underway for the Methodist Hospital System's west Houston hospital next to the site where the new Texas Children Hospital is being built. This new facility will be a 192-bed hospital with a state-of-the-art imaging center. The new community hospital, which will be the fourth in the Methodist System, will offer the growing westside communities 14 operating rooms, a breast center, radiation therapy and labor and delivery services, among other features.

The Methodist Imaging Center will offer the latest in technology, including a 64- slice CT scanner, PET CT and two MRIs, including an open machine. This facility will provide patients with precise imaging, accurate diagnoses, and a personalized service. The hospital will also include several centers of excellence from the Texas Medical Center, including cancer, heart services and orthopedics. An emergency department, with the capacity to treat more than 30,000 patients annually, and imaging capabilities, will also be a part of the hospital.

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System

St. Luke's Episcopal Health System will also be a part of the Katy area. Plans are underway for a 90-bed community hospital on nearly 30 acres of land located at the southwest corner of the Grand Parkway and Kingsland Boulevard, just south of I-10. St. Luke plans to develop the campus in phases as it grows. The new building will also feature medical offices to support the new hospital's facilities, as well as a senior care facility and a wellness development center.