Healthcare in Arlington
Arlington has two genuine full-service acute-care hospital systems within city limits: Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, a 369-bed Level III Trauma Center and Advanced Primary Stroke Center, and Medical City Arlington, located nearby with specialized cardiovascular and women's-health services. For higher-acuity or highly specialized care, Arlington residents also have practical access to the deeper hospital systems of nearby Dallas and Fort Worth.
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Learn moreTexas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital
Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital, located at 800 W Randol Mill Rd, is a full-service acute-care medical center with 369 licensed beds, part of the Texas Health Resources system. It operates as a Level III Trauma Center, an Advanced Acute Heart Attack Ready Center, and an Advanced Primary Stroke Center, offering behavioral health, cancer care, vascular treatment, hospice, imaging, orthopedics, outpatient surgery, respiratory care, and emergency medicine, per the hospital's own materials and U.S. News & World Report facility data. 88% of patients report being willing to recommend the hospital, per the same sourcing.
Medical City Arlington
Medical City Arlington, located nearby (about half a mile from Texas Health Arlington Memorial), is a second full-service hospital option in the city, offering specialized cardiovascular care and women's health services alongside general acute care, per the system's own location information. Having two genuinely distinct hospital systems within city limits gives Arlington real in-network choice for most routine and many specialty needs, rather than a single-system market.
What This Means for Access
For most routine and specialty care, Arlington's two-hospital-system density means real choice within city limits. The honest caveat: this covers system-level facts (bed count, trauma designation, named specialties), not individual insurance-network participation, specific out-of-pocket costs, or wait times for a given specialty -- those vary by plan and should be confirmed directly with a provider or insurer.
Access to Dallas and Fort Worth Systems
Arlington sits centrally between Dallas and Fort Worth (see the traffic-transportation and best-areas topic pages), and residents needing care beyond what Arlington's own hospitals offer have practical driving access to the deeper specialty-care systems in both cities -- UT Southwestern Medical Center and Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas, and comparable Fort Worth systems, though a specific commute-time figure to any named Dallas or Fort Worth facility was not independently sourced for this page.
Key takeaways
- Texas Health Arlington Memorial Hospital (800 W Randol Mill Rd) is a 369-bed, full-service acute-care Level III Trauma Center and Advanced Primary Stroke Center, with 88% of patients willing to recommend it.
- Medical City Arlington, located nearby, is a second full-service hospital with specialized cardiovascular and women's health services -- giving Arlington genuine in-network choice within city limits.
- System-level facts (bed count, trauma designation, named specialties) are documented here; individual insurance-network participation and out-of-pocket costs still require direct confirmation with a provider or insurer.
- Arlington's central position between Dallas and Fort Worth gives residents practical access to those cities' deeper specialty hospital systems for higher-acuity needs.
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