Groundbreaking scheduled for Children’s South Facility
Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC will break ground Tuesday for a new location in South Fayette Township for its Children’s South facility.
The hospital said in a news release Thursday that Children’s South will relocate to from its current location in Bethel Park to South Fayette Township in fall 2014.
The new site at 100 Hickory Grade Road is located off the Bridgeville exit of Interstate 79, near Route 50. Children’s South will be built on 2.6 acres with 60,000 square feet of usable space, and will expand the services available at Children’s South in Bethel Park and broaden Children’s Hospital’s service area south of Pittsburgh.
The new hospital will house Children’s outpatient, primary care and after-hours care.
New and expanded services will include increased exam room space for expanded pediatric subspecialty care, including adolescent medicine, allergy, cardiology, endocrinology, ENT, gastroenterology, neurology, orthopaedics, plastic surgery and pulmonary medicine.
The site also will include the latest pediatric-based radiology to include X-ray, fluoroscopy and ultrasound. It also will house Children’s Express Care South Fayette, an after-hours pediatric care center.
The hospital said it will devote 15,000 square feet of open gym and exam room space for rehabilitation services to include speech, audiology, physical therapy and occupational therapy. It also will offer expanded pediatric behavioral health services to include cognitive therapy and developmental testing.
The new facility also will be the new expansion site for CCP-South Fayette, a primary care practice that is part of Children’s Community Pediatrics.
The hospital said the new Children’s South is designed to resemble its main campus in Lawrenceville – from an abundance of natural light to distraction therapy features for various age groups.