Why We Need to Grow
January 15, 2008
Our facilities date back to the 1920’s. Children’s has expanded its facilities over the years to meet the growing demand for its services. The hospital opened its doors in 1914 with 30 beds. Now with 191 licensed beds, Children’s is ready to grow again. In order to adequately meet the healthcare needs of the area’s growing population of children, the hospital has plans to build a new 250-bed medical center. Construction on Children’s new medical center is expected to begin in 2010 and be completed by 2013.
Children's Hospital: A look back in time
- 1928: 50-bed patient wing opens.
- 1948: New wing adds 64 beds, intensive care and recovery room.
- 1959: Bruce Lyons Memorial Research Laboratory built.
- 1973: Third floor added with expanded NICU.
- 1982: Patient building built at 52nd and Grove, providing 65 new beds.
- 1990: Nicholas C. Petris Ambulatory Care Center, located less than a half a mile east of Children’s, opens with subspecialty departments, primary care services, adolescent medicine and child development center.
- 1991: Other departments and programs locate offsite include general accounting, Parent-Infant Program and Center for the Vulnerable Child.
- 1992: Hospital opens 800-car garage.
- 1994: Only freestanding Outpatient Center in Northern California just for children opens. Services include Children’s Surgery Center for same-day surgery and Day Hospital for procedures such as transfusions and infusions.
- 1999: Helistop opens.
- 2000: Children’s Hospital’s research center relocates to Martin Luther King Jr. Plaza.
- 2003: Work was completed on a western expansion of the Emergency Department at the main hospital. The expansion nearly doubled the department’s square footage, adding new surgical suites, an on-site MRI, and a remodeled waiting area.
