After 15 years of serving Colorado Springs-area patients through outpatient clinics and partnerships with the UCHealth Memorial Hospital System, Children's Hospital Colorado is building the first hospital in the area specializing in pediatric care, according to an article on The Gazette website.

The 294,000-square-foot facility will open on the UCHealth Memorial Hospital North campus in late 2018.

The new hospital will include 40 medical surgery and pediatric intensive care beds with eight more unfinished, 36 neonatal intensive care beds with 12 more unfinished, 22 exam rooms in the emergency department with nine unfinished, five operating rooms with three more unfinished, 22 recovery rooms with 12 more unfinished, 18 infusion rooms, bays or exam rooms for cancer and blood disorder patients, six behavioral health rooms, six extended stay rooms and three sleep study rooms.

There will also be 98 patient rooms, 20-21 emergency room beds with room for 9-10 beds to be completed later, up to eight operating rooms, a sleep study lab and 10-12 beds and exam rooms for inpatient and outpatient cancer treatment that will consolidate all of Children's oncology treatment for southern Colorado in one location.

Read the article.