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 ith the last of six new floors opening in January, Children’s Medical Center Dallas has emerged as the fourth-largest freestanding pediatric facility in the nation.
In terms of operating, or active, beds, Children’s Dallas ranks fourth alongside Texas Children’s, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Boston Children’s. With the expansion, Children’s has increased its total number of operating beds to 321. The opening of six floors is the first part of an aggressive expansion under way at Children’s to meet the needs of a rapidly growing pediatric population in North Texas.
When the entire expansion project is complete, Children’s will have the capacity to meet current needs, the facilities to organize increasing specialization in care delivery, and the ability to support continuing growth of hospital programs. The Children’s expansion also includes the building of a third tower and eventually a fourth tower at the hospital’s main campus. By 2005, Children’s will reach another major milestone in its construction project with the opening of the core diagnostic addition to the third tower, which will house a new central sterile department, space for the pharmacy to be located in the future, a new pathology lab, 12 new operating rooms and room for future radiology expansion. |
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By 2010, the population of children the hospital serves will increase by 30 percent. Children’s is meeting the needs of this population with expansion to its main campus and the building of another site in Plano to serve counties north of Dallas.