Inpatient Projects: System to add children’s hospital

The planned 120,000 square foot Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart is to be built alongside the current Sacred Heart Hospital, which has housed the children’s hospital since 1969. Ascension Health has committed $55 million to the project. Photo courtesy of Sacred Heart Health System

The planned 120,000 square foot Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart is to be built alongside the current Sacred Heart Hospital, which has housed the children’s hospital since 1969. Ascension Health has committed $55 million to the project.
Photo courtesy of Sacred Heart Health System

Standalone pediatric hospital planned for Sacred Heart campus in Pensacola, Fla.

By John B. Mugford

Construction is set to begin in early 2016 on what will be, in essence, a new standalone children’s hospital at the 100-year-old Sacred Heart Hospital campus in Pensacola, Fla.

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