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Children’s Hospital looking forward to major move Pediatric specialists at University of Missouri Children’s Hospital are looking forward to a blessed event approximately nine months from now. That’s the target date for a consolidation of all Children’s Hospital services under one roof at University of Missouri Health Care’s Columbia Regional Hospital at 404 Keene St. “Our new location at Columbia Regional Hospital will offer families convenient access to many more related services for women and children, such as the Family Birth Center, Missouri OB-GYN Associates, the Thompson Center for Autism and Neurodevelopmental Disorders, and our Center for Reproductive Medicine and Fertility,” said Jim Ross, chief executive officer of University of Missouri Health Care. “Having women’s and children’s services at one hospital will create a synergy that will benefit all these patients.” For years, Children’s Hospital has functioned as a “virtual” hospital, with services offered at a number of locations. For example, Children’s Hospital’s pediatric intensive care unit and adolescent intensive care units are housed on the sixth and seventh floors of University Hospital. Another part of Children’s Hospital, the neonatal intensive care unit, is based at Columbia Regional Hospital. Outpatient units are located at University Physicians Medical Building and University Physicians-Green Meadows clinic. “Even though the consolidation of all children’s services at Columbia Regional Hospital will require several months to complete, we’re tremendously pleased and excited all of the 30-plus specialized pediatric services and programs we offer will soon be under one roof,” Ross said. In addition, the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Mid-Missouri is considering relocating its guest house, currently at the corner of Stadium and Monk Drives, to a site adjacent to Columbia Regional Hospital. “Children’s Hospital has a long history of providing specialized care to Missouri’s kids,” said Ted Groshong, M.D., medical director of Children’s Hospital, chair of the MU School of Medicine’s Department of Child Health and Children’s Miracle Network Professor in Pediatrics. “Milestones in our history include the first baby born at University in 1956, establishment of the region’s first neonatal intensive care unit in 1971 and our formal designation as a Children’s Hospital in 1993. “This move to Columbia Regional Hospital will provide our patients and their families with a newly updated, kid-friendly environment, one-stop children’s services, 100 percent private patient rooms and convenient access via Highways 63 and Interstate 70,” Groshong said. Children’s Hospital services that will be moved from University Hospital to Columbia Regional Hospital will include a pediatric intensive care unit, a general pediatric care unit, an adolescent care unit, a pediatric short-stay center and day of surgery admissions unit, and a pediatric blood disorders and cancer specialty outpatient unit. After the initial relocation of pediatric inpatient services, a second phase will relocate pediatric specialty clinics to the CRH campus. Only pediatric burn and trauma care will remain at University Hospital’s George David Peak Memorial Burn and Wound Care Center. University of Missouri Health Care CEO Ross said he anticipates the move will be completed by late 2009. The health system has budgeted $12 million to cover the cost of the move. Specialty services provided by Children’s Hospital include central Missouri’s only neonatal/pediatric transport team, child life therapy, a children’s sleep lab, pediatric radiology, pediatric ophthalmology, pediatric plastic surgery, a clinic for children with fetal alcohol syndrome, a kidney transplant and dialysis program, pediatric orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine, pediatric general surgery, pediatric otolaryngology and a medical genetics and perinatology program. E-mail this page | | Print this page |
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