Colorado Real Estate Journal - October 21, 2015
Children’s Hospital Colorado recently announced plans to construct a new hospital in north Colorado Springs. The hospital, expected to cost around $110 million, will be located on Memorial Health System’s north campus at the intersection of North Union Boulevard and Briargate Parkway, as part of Children’s Hospital Colorado honoring its partnership with UCHealth and Memorial Hospital. Construction will start this winter and be completed in 2018. The 170,000-square-foot facility will include an emergency department, up to 100 inpatient pediatric beds, a neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care unit and operating rooms, and incorporate pediatric-specific design elements to create a healing environment and be served by more than 500 team members, including almost 40 physician/provider specialists who live and work in the community. “On behalf of our faculty, team members and board of directors, Children’s Colorado is delighted to announce plans for a new children’s hospital to serve the southern Colorado community,” Jena Hausmann, president and CEO of Children’s Colorado said in a statement. “As important as the new healing environment that pulls all these services together for kids and only kids, I can’t emphasize more highly the value of the exceptional people who make up our team of dedicated pediatric experts. Their passion and purpose equals or exceeds their professional training and expertise.” As contemplated as part of the 2012 unique partnership with the city of Colorado Springs and UCHealth, the new children’s hospital will be adjacent to Memorial Hospital North but operate independently under its own license, with a dedicated entrance and team members who have trained exclusively to care for kids and adolescents. By expanding on its current capabilities in Southern Colorado, including the comprehensive pediatric specialty outpatient clinic at Briargate as well as Printers Park Therapy Care and Pueblo Therapy Care – all of which will remain unchanged, Children’s Colorado will greatly enhance its ability to partner with primary care and other community providers to deliver high-quality care to children and adolescents throughout the community, according to the hospital. “We’re excited to strengthen our partnership with Children’s Colorado and to ensure that pediatric patients in Colorado Springs receive the very best care, close to home,” said George Hayes, president and CEO of Memorial.