Galveston County Daily News, May 3, 2007 GALVESTON -- Enamored with growth in the northern county and Clear Lake area, hospitals continue to add beds, stake out new territory and build specialty facilities. Will all the medical center development be healthy for the University of Texas Medical Branch, which said it needs more paying and insured customers? The medical branch had planned to build a $30 million specialty facility in League City. However, critics earlier this year accused medical branch President Dr. John Stobo of losing sight of the institution's mission.  In October, Stobo said plans for the League City facility were postponed. Meanwhile, other organizations are moving ahead: All heart: Last month, The Heart & Vascular Hospital at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center, 500 Medical Center Drive, received its first patient. The $100 million facility increases the center's space by 225,000 square feet and includes three cardiovascular operating rooms, a 23-bed pre- and post-recovery room, 60 private in-patient rooms and a 14-bed coronary care unit, among other amenities. Another dose: Continuing the development boom in Webster's medical center, St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital plans to build a nine-story, 175-bed hospital at the intersection of Blossom Street and state Highway 3.