Memorial Children's Hospital to open in 2017
Posted: Sep 17, 2015 6:40 PM EDT | Updated: Sep 17, 2015 6:42 PM EDT
Beacon Health System broke ground on the new home for Memorial Children's Hospital on Thursday. It is expected to open in 2017.
Beacon is investing $50 million in the project.
The new hospital will include neonatology, pediatric hematology/oncology, pulmonology, infectious disease, sleep medicine, behavioral and developmental pediatrics, cardiology, neurology, clinical psychology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, and pediatrics hospitalists and intensivists.
Donors contributed $10 million to the project.
The 100,000 square-foot expansion will include the nation's first couplet care rooms, which allow mothers and babies to stay together as early as 22-weeks gestation, according to Beacon.
Groundbreaking was held September 17.