Aug. 3 marked a decade since the opening of Baylor Scott & White Medical Center near the Texas 71-U.S. 281 intersection in Marble Falls. In 2015, city leaders predicted the new hospital would have a long-reaching impact on growth and development in the Highland Lakes, and they were right.

Today, the 46-bed medical center has over 300 employees and is accompanied by seven clinics and urgent care facilities spread across Burnet, Marble Falls, Kingsland, Horseshoe Bay, and Llano.

When the Marble Falls hospital’s doors opened in the summer of 2015, George Russell, the former mayor and city manager, made an accurate prediction.

“I definitely feel it’s going to stimulate some growth in the area,” he said in a 2015 interview with DailyTrib.com .

Some numbers of note regarding the local

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