Posted October 26, 200519 yr Already announced plans include Mt. Carmel East's planned 44-acre campus and OSU's planned 10-story cancer hospital and other expansions. Currently under construction are OSU's 12-story biomedical research tower and Grant's 5-story cardiovascular center, and recently completed projects include Riverside's 6-story McConnel Heart Hospital and OSU's 5-story Richard M. Ross Heart Center. Expanding care Unprecedented growth aimed at patient attention, research Wednesday, October 26, 2005 Suzanne Hoholik and Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Hospital officials will announce a plan today to spend $740 million over seven years to add 1 million square feet with new parking, clinical buildings and research labs. The plans: • Most of the money — about $430 million — would be used to build a new main hospital, two research buildings and a parking garage. • About $237 million would be used to update equipment and computers and improve technology to automate patient records. • Nearly $74 million would be used to recruit doctors, nurses and researchers. Children’s is the fifth-largest freestanding children’s hospital — based on number of patient beds — in the United States, according to industry statistics. It has 323 beds. The expansion could bump the number to 400. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2005/10/26/childrens.ART_ART_10-26-05_A1_GIE7OF2.html?sid=101
October 26, 200519 yr So in the last three days we've got plans to add 800 Nationwide empoyees, 800 Grange employees, 1,160 Childrens Hospital jobs, and 1,000 more related jobs. That's pushing 4,000 high paying jobs planned to be added in less than a week. :clap: In the whole chicken and egg debate between living downtown and having amenities downtown, I think this comes before both. You've got to have a densely populated workplace downtown in order to establish your market of homebuyers and renters. It also puts strains on traffic, adds restaurants, and adds support services which can provide even more motivation to live downtown.
October 26, 200519 yr yay for new slightly different angles of the skyline! (and all the other stuff too :) )
November 1, 200519 yr They have a fly-over video for the Children's Hospital expansion on 10tv.com and it looks great! It's good to hear that they are expanding their downtown site and not opting for a suburban hospital campus somewhere in southern Delaware County (hint, hint CSCC).
November 29, 200519 yr Might as well start a thread since they plan a few new buildings in the upcoming years. From ThisWeek South Side, 11/20/05: CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL Plans for new parking garage unveiled Sunday, November 20, 2005 By MARK A. CLAFFEY ThisWeek Staff Writer Council of South Side Organizations (CSSO) vice president Mike Elicson is not pleased with the plans unveiled Nov. 10 by Children's Hospital for a new parking garage at the corner of Livingston and Parsons avenues. "There's is no way you are ever going to make a seven-story parking garage fit in at the corner," Elicson said during the CSSO meeting held at the Shamrock Club, 60 W. Castle St. The plans were unveiled by Tracy Mahoney, who serves as community relations manager for the hospital. Mahoney said the parking garage will be constructed on land already owned by the hospital and will provide an additional 1,500 new parking spaces. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/thisweek.php?edition=South&story=thisweeknews/112005/South/News/112005-News-50581.html
November 29, 200519 yr I hate doing this but... http://www.urbanohio.com/forum2/index.php?topic=5836.0
November 30, 200519 yr LOL...I miss one every now and again. Thanks for pointing it out. I went ahead and merged them.
January 11, 200619 yr From ThisWeek South Side, 1/1/06: Children's Hospital lot expansion raises concerns By TRISTAN CROWE ThisWeek Staff Writer A new parking structure for Children's Hospital is the object of some suggestions and recommendations from the Council of South Side Organizations. Mike Wiles, president of the CSSO, said suggestions from members of his group and from community residents were brought before Children's Hospital officials during a meeting several weeks ago in an effort to help make the new structure more acceptable to the neighborhood. Their suggestions include locating modest retail shops on the first and second floors, he said. "What we hope would happen is to see some retail shops on the first or second floor facing Parsons Avenue, so it would blend into the neighborhood better instead of being a regular parking structure," Wiles said. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/thisweek.php?edition=South&story=thisweeknews/010106/South/News/010106-News-73563.html
March 14, 200619 yr From Business First of Columbus, 3/13/06: Children's banking land on Livingston Business First of Columbus - March 10, 2006 by Brian R. Ball,Business First Children's Hospital is expanding its property holdings west of Parsons Avenue for some elbow room as it builds up its Columbus medical campus east of a commercial strip. Business First has learned the hospital has agreed to acquire a shopping center at Parsons and East Livingston avenues for $6 million. The deal is expected to close this month. Children's plans to turn a former supermarket building at the site into offices, a print shop, office technology training and other nonmedical operations. A Kroger grocery store closed last month. "From our perspective, this is really a long-term, land-banking solution," said Patty McClimon, the hospital's vice president of planning and business development. "We'd be penny-wise and pound-foolish not to leave a legacy for the next generation of planning for facilities." Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2006/03/13/story2.html
March 21, 200619 yr From ThisWeek German Village, 3/16/06: Children's Hospital purchases Kroger lot Neighbors view plans for parking garage Thursday, March 16, 2006 By SUE HAGAN ThisWeek Staff Writer Children's Hospital is purchasing the Kroger property, located at the Northwest corner of Livingston and Parsons avenues, for future expansion. The deal was to be closed Tuesday, said Patty McClimon, the hospital's vice president of Planning and Business Development. "This allows us to grow to the west rather than into the neighborhoods to the south and east," she said. McClimon said the purchase price is $6-million for the 5.87-acre site, which was owned by Bobb's Chevrolet. She said the hospital will not develop the property until the leases for the four businesses still open there expire. Kroger closed last month when the new Kroger opened in the Brewery District, but a CVS drug store, Rent-a-Center, Family Dollar and Wendy's still are open, according to McClimon. She said the Wendy's lease will expire last, in 2012. "We're assessing our long range plan for the site," she said, adding that it may eventually be developed into medical office space. For now, the hospital plans to use the Kroger building for various internal functions. Read more at http://www.thisweeknews.com/thisweek.php?edition=GermanVillage&story=thisweeknews/031606/GermanVillage/News/031606-News-113902.html
June 5, 200619 yr From the 6/4/06 Dispatch: ABERCROMBIE & FITCH Children’s Hospital to receive $10 million Sunday, June 04, 2006 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Abercrombie & Fitch Inc. will donate $10 million to Children’s Hospital to provide emergency services at the South Side medical center, the company has announced. The Abercrombie & Fitch Emergency Department and Trauma Center will be part of a new hospital that Children’s plans to build on its current campus beginning in 2008. It’s scheduled to open three years later as part of a $740 million expansion and recruitment effort. Children’s Hospital said in October that the major components of its expansion would be the new hospital, better technology, more medical personnel and more parking. Children’s has budgeted $430 million to build the new hospital, research buildings and a parking garage. It hasn’t been determined how much it will cost to build the emergency department and trauma center, hospital spokeswoman Pam Barber said. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/06/04/20060604-C1-04.html
June 9, 200619 yr From the 6/7/06 Dispatch: Nationwide gives Children’s $50M With $28 million in other donations announced today, expansion effort has surpassed $123 million Wednesday, June 07, 2006 Jeffrey Sheban THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The Nationwide Foundation has pledged $50 million to Columbus Children’s Hospital to help build a new main hospital and expand programs in pediatric health care and research. The gift is the single-largest charitable donation for any cause in central Ohio and the second-largest in the nation to a children’s hospital. Columbus Children’s, which is embarking on a seven-year, $740 million expansion of its main campus south of Downtown, will be renamed Nationwide Children’s Hospital in early 2007 in honor of the 10-year commitment, it will be announced today. It joins at least nine other children’s hospitals in being named after a benefactor. "This transformational gift … further cements our ability to be among the world’s leaders not only in pediatric care, but also research and education," said Abigail Wexner, chair of the hospital’s board of trustees. The gift will help Children’s continue its mission of providing care to all children, regardless of any family’s ability to pay, Wexner said. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/06/07/20060607-A1-00.html From the 6/8/06 Dispatch: Neighbors surprised to hear of hospital’s plan for garage City OKs first part of Children’s proposal for parking structure Thursday, June 08, 2006 Bob Moser THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Some neighbors are upset that Children’s Hospital might build a seven-story parking garage right in front of their homes. But Katie Radford, president of the Southern Orchards Civic Association, wonders where they were before Monday’s Columbus City Council meeting to join her in protesting the project. Absolutely nowhere to be found, she said. Radford has weekly meetings, often with hospital spokespersons, about development in the area. Attendance is sparse, to say the least. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/06/08/20060608-D5-00.html
May 1, 200718 yr From the 2/5/07 Dispatch: CONSTRUCTION ZONE Children's Hospital expands its plans Monday, February 05, 2007 Mike Pramik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Children's Hospital is tweaking its master plan for its Downtown campus, seeking a new direction to grow as I-70 and I-71 are rebuilt. The hospital intends to expand west of the Ronald McDonald House, 555 Children's Dr. W. The 37-room building that provides accommodations for families of Children's patients opened in March 2005, but it would be torn down and rebuilt nearby. In October 2005 Children's announced a $740 million plan that included a new main hospital. Because of the Ohio Department of Transportation's plans to reroute I-70 and I-71, Children's has redrawn its blueprints. The new main entrance to the hospital will be off Parsons Avenue rather than 18th Street, said Patty McClimon, Children's senior vice president for planning and facilities. Other details call for expansion west of Parsons Avenue. Last year Children's acquired several plots of land west of Parsons, including a former Kroger shopping center. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/05/20070205-F6-01.html
May 1, 200718 yr From the 2/19/07 Dispatch: Children's building plans rile neighbors Community will get to air concerns on razing homes for new Ronald McDonald House Monday, February 19, 2007 Mark Ferenchik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Like other urban hospitals, Children's Hospital has to throw some elbows to make room when it wants to grow. But sometimes the neighbors push back. The latest tussle concerns a plan by Children's to knock down the 2-year-old Ronald McDonald House along Parsons Avenue. A new one would rise at the southeast corner of Livingston Avenue and Ann Street. Building the new center, however, would mean knocking down three houses and four cottages that neighborhood leaders want to preserve. The city would have to give up two alleys to clear the way for the new center. City Councilwoman Maryellen O'Shaughnessy said she plans to put that legislation before the council at its Feb. 26 meeting. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/19/20070219-C1-01.html
May 1, 200718 yr Link contains a photo. From the 2/21/07 Dispatch: MEETING WITH SOUTH SIDE RESIDENTS Children's fields gripes over expansion plans Wednesday, February 21, 2007 Kevin Kidder and Mark Ferenchik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Children's Hospital officials got a polite earful last night, as they presented their plans to relocate the 2-year-old Ronald McDonald House, which would mean knocking down several old homes in the process. The relocation is part of a $740 million hospital expansion that will begin in 2008 and will include a new entrance on Parsons Avenue, hospital administrators said. The westward shift will be critical once the state builds a new I-70 exit ramp to Parsons Avenue as part of the redesigned I-70/71 split Downtown, said Patty McClimon, Children's senior vice president of planning and facilities. The hospital also anticipates that future expansion will be to its west, just across Parsons Avenue, where it recently purchased a former Kroger lot. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/21/20070221-B1-04.html
May 1, 200718 yr From the 2/27/07 Dispatch: City allows Children's to take alleys Council members scold hospital for how it handled Ronald McDonald House Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Robert Vitale THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Children's Hospital got a heap of scorn last night from Columbus City Council members who said the hospital is shutting neighbors out of a $740 million expansion that will reshape everything around them. But hospital executives also got what they wanted from the city: possession of two alleyways that will allow their plans to move forward. City Council members voted 5-2 to vacate the alleys so Childrens can build a new Ronald McDonald House for patients' families at Livingston Avenue and Ann Street. Seven houses that neighbors wanted to preserve could be torn down by the end of the week, said Yvette McGee Brown, who heads the Center for Child and Family Advocacy at Children's Hospital. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/02/27/20070227-D2-00.html
May 1, 200718 yr From the 3/3/07 Dispatch: Judge won't stop Children's Hospital from razing homes Saturday, March 03, 2007 Franklin County Common Pleas Judge Beverly Y. Pfeiffer said a "good neighbor" agreement among the hospital, South Side neighborhood groups and residents doesn't provide a legal ground to delay the work. Pfeiffer said that the hospital expansion is in the public's interest. This is likely the end of the fight, according to Mary M. Simon, who lives in the neighborhood. "I don't know of anything else we can do," she said after the judge's ruling. The hospital owns the buildings and already has permits to knock them down: 693 E. Livingston Ave., 654 Ann St. and 688 Jackson St. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/dispatch/contentbe/dispatch/2007/03/03/20070303-D3-05.html
August 30, 200717 yr Children's Hospital gets high billing in U.S. News rankings issue hits newsstands Monday. Columbus Children's Hospital was ranked No. 12 in U.S. News & World Report's first separate ranking of pediatric hospitals. The magazine created a separate list just for children's hospitals this year, and subdivided that list by pediatric specialty. It also changed how the rankings were done, so the results don't compare year to year. Instead of scoring by reputation alone, the magazine polled all 122 hospitals (113 responded) for data including patient volume, death rate, number of nurses and availability of advanced procedures. Reputation is still two-thirds of the score. Ohio fared well in the list, with Rainbow Babies and Children's Hospital of Cleveland at No. 5 and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center ranked No. 7. The rankings are available online Friday at health.usnews.com/pediatrics, and the issue hits newsstands Monday.
August 30, 200717 yr Great showing for Ohio: Rainbow Babies (Cleveland) #5 Children's Hospital (Cincy) #7 Childrens' (Columbus) #12
September 3, 200717 yr Yay! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 24, 200717 yr Rededication of Columbus Children's Hospital as Nationwide Children's Hospital on September 24, 2007 There was a special section in this Sunday's Columbus Dispatch about the rededication of Children's Hospital as Nationwide Children's Hospital. The rededication will be on Monday, September 24, 2007. To download this special section go to http://www.nationwidechildrens.org and click on the link on the home page or go directly to http://nationwidechildrens.org/GD/DocumentManagement/DocumentDownload.aspx?DocumentID=22598.
September 25, 200717 yr Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/09/24/nationwide_childrens.html Hospital, now Nationwide Children's, pledges excellence Goal of expansion is to become a national leader Monday, September 24, 2007 - 2:50 PM By Amy Saunders THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Children’s Hospital changed its name today to Nationwide Children’s Hospital, but that doesn’t just reflect a $50 million corporate donation by the Columbus-based financial-services company. It’s symbolic of the hospital’s future, said speakers at today’s official rededication ceremony. “We’re reaching a pivotal moment of change in this hospital’s history,” said Abigail Wexner, chairwoman of the hospital’s board of trustees. “Our vision is really one of national prominence." With a seven-year, $740 million expansion project under way, Wexner said she hopes the hospital will become one of the top five or 10 pediatric hospitals in the country by 2012. This year, the hospital jumped 10 places in U.S. News & World Report’s annual rankings to become the No. 12 pediatric hospital in America. “We’re only now having our reputation catch up to where we are,” Wexner said.
September 25, 200717 yr This is my beef with my hometown. The economy is based on negative occurances, such as sickness, obesity (fast food, hospitals), government regulation and calamities. Sure, there's lots of money in them, but bad things have to happen for Columbusites to make money.
September 25, 200717 yr This is my beef with my hometown. The economy is based on negative occurances, such as sickness, obesity (fast food, hospitals), government regulation and calamities. Sure, there's lots of money in them, but bad things have to happen for Columbusites to make money. ^ lol, I never thought of it that way. Yeah, I never thought of it that way either. Because it makes no sense to turn a positive announcement into a negative.
September 25, 200717 yr This is my beef with my hometown. The economy is based on negative occurances, such as sickness, obesity (fast food, hospitals), government regulation and calamities. Sure, there's lots of money in them, but bad things have to happen for Columbusites to make money. That is a funny way to think about it --- But, technically speaking, the insurance industry loses money when bad things happen. They need bad things to happen in order to get people to buy the insurance, but I think they would rather bad things not happen so they would never have to pay people out. And then for Children's hospital -- There are births there, that's a good thing... =) I prefer to think of it as the industry of making things right again =)
September 26, 200717 yr Can't that be said for alot of cities? When Cincinnatians over indulge in Skyline Chili or Frisch's they turn to P&G (the same company who's soaps help pollute water) for relief & possibly roto-rooter to unclog their toilet. If they drive to veges in a toyota there is a good chance it uses valvoline, & when they get there they will probably lose alot of money on the cards manufactured down the road from where they work. If they bet the house & lose, well I'm sure 5/3 will jump at the chance to forclose. If their insurance lapse & they can't go to Christ, then we always have University! But why do that when you can get a payday loan from Check 'n Go & get further in debt. This is my beef with my hometown. The economy is based on negative occurances, such as sickness, obesity (fast food, hospitals), government regulation and calamities. Sure, there's lots of money in them, but bad things have to happen for Columbusites to make money.
September 26, 200717 yr Yes, those are all possible situations, but less direct than the Columbus examples. Education is one positive aspect of Columbus' economy.
September 26, 200717 yr Insurance is a positive industry. It allows the pooling of risk to minimize individual exposure. It also is a large investor in financial and real estate markets. One would have to be rather jaded to view the health care industry as benefiting from negative outcomes. Preventative care is just one example. So much of the health care industry is related to R&D - a proactive way of dealing with negative outcomes. Education, as GCrites mentioned, is central to the Columbus economy, and it is certainly based on positives. Research at Battelle and the universities is productive in nature.
September 29, 200717 yr Less direct to Columbus but equally relative to Cincinnati. Yes, those are all possible situations, but less direct than the Columbus examples.
October 3, 200717 yr What's going to happen to our city should Nationwide ever... no no NO! Do not complete that thought Jeremy!
November 11, 200717 yr Children's Hospital tops $200 million in donations Saturday, November 10, 2007 - 3:39 AM By Suzanne Hoholik, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Nationwide Children's Hospital is ahead of schedule for its capital campaign, having passed the $200 million mark. Officials announced yesterday that $207 million of the $250 million goal has been raised with two years left in the fundraising effort. Children's $740 million expansion includes building a new hospital, two research buildings and a parking garage along with updating equipment and technology. "This campaign will enable us to execute our strategic vision -- to become the best children's hospital in this country," Abigail Wexner, chairwoman of the hospital's board of trustees, said in a statement. "With the continuing support of community-minded individuals and organizations, Nationwide Children's serves not only as a leading local resource but also a national model for providing the best health care available anywhere in the world right here in central Ohio." Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/11/10/childrens.ART_ART_11-10-07_B1_G1E7OF2.html?sid=101
September 3, 200816 yr Given that the seemingly ever-expanding hospital has claimed a lot of local housing, it's nice to see them finally give back to the neighborhood: Hospital renovating homes, providing health care in neighborhood Wednesday, September 3, 2008 4:38 PM By Robert Vitale THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Nationwide Children's Hospital unveiled plans today to improve the health of its neighborhood. The hospital and city government will begin an effort to concentrate existing programs and create a few new ones to improve housing, health, education, safety and job opportunities in the struggling area around the Children's campus on E. Livingston Avenue. "As the hospital prospers, so does the neighborhood," Mayor Michael B. Coleman said at a news conference in front of two new homes on S. Carpenter Street that replaced others torn down by the city. Down the street and around the corner, many others are boarded up, abandoned, or strewn with trash and discarded furniture. Neighborhood forces have been at odds more often in recent years. Residents and some City Council members criticized the hospital last year when it quickly moved to demolish historic homes at Livingston Avenue and Ann Street to make way for a piece of its $740 million expansion. Read more at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/09/03/southhealth.html?sid=101
September 23, 200816 yr Author Nationwide Children's kicks off expansion $800 million project includes $480 million hospital to open in 2012 Tuesday, September 23, 2008 3:35 AM By Suzanne Hoholik THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH It seemed fitting that kids were on hand yesterday to mark the start of a major expansion project at Nationwide Children's Hospital. They wore their best dresses and suits and shared their stories about being treated at Children's. Aaron Young, 7, of Columbus had surgery at the hospital last year. He said the doctors and nurses there made him feel special. He talked about wanting to be a professional basketball player when he grows up, like LeBron James. And if that doesn't work out, maybe he could be mayor. Then Aaron introduced his next-door neighbor, Mayor Michael B. Coleman. The two joined about 1,000 people at the ceremony for Children's new $480 million main hospital, part of an $800 million expansion project. The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2012, will have all private rooms, a new emergency department and several family lounge areas. It "will set the standard for what quality child health care stands for," said Dr. Steve Allen, Children's CEO. Full story at http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/09/23/Neighbors.ART_ART_09-23-08_B1_VBBDEFE.html?sid=101
September 26, 200816 yr Great to see Children's Hospital making progress on this massive upgrade to their campus. I found some more info and images on this at the Nationwide Children's website... For more information on the Children's Hospital campus expansion: http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/gd/applications/controller.cfm?&page=9107#/gd/applications/campus_expansion/images/gallery/photo1.jpg For more information on the 2012 Master Plan construction projects: http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/gd/templates/pages/AboutUs/AboutUs.aspx?page=9563
September 26, 200816 yr I'm really excited for this project, especially after watching that video. haha.
September 28, 200816 yr More on this at the Nationwide Children's Hospital website: http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/gd/templates/pages/AboutUs/AboutUs.aspx?page=10200 Healthy Neighborhoods, Healthy Families Program Featuring five areas of focus: Affordable Housing, Health and Wellness, Education, Safe and Accessible Neighborhoods and Workforce and Economic Development Affordable Housing Defined Outcomes: - $3-5 million in seed money over 5-7 years from Nationwide Children’s Hospital - Net community gain of at least 84-94 homes - Provide home buyer assistance and education - Establish home improvements incentive program - Implement foreclosure reduction program
December 2, 200816 yr Children's to add 2,400 jobs City Council approves tax incentive to pay up to $15 million Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 3:09 AM By Dean Narciso, THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH Columbus City Council sweetened the pot last night to make sure that the 2,400 jobs Nationwide Children's Hospital plans to add as part of its expansion stay in the city. During a meeting in which one council member used "monumental" to describe the hospital's hiring plans, the panel agreed to pay Children's the income tax collected on 30 percent of those wages, up to $15 million total during the next 15 years. The new full-time jobs are expected to generate an annual payroll of $168 million above what is currently paid the hospital's staff of 5,585 employees, city officials said. "It's a competitive environment out there," Councilwoman Maryellen O'Shaughnessy said last night. "The Dublins and New Albanys of the world are doing these medical research/technology parks," she said. "And in years past (Children's) has said they could just as easily get support there." The city expects income-tax revenue on the new jobs to exceed $50 million during the 15 years. After refunding 30 percent to Children's, the city expects a net gain of more than $35 million. Read more at http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/12/02/copy/COUN02.ART_ART_12-02-08_B1_64C3O28.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
December 2, 200816 yr City Council OKs tax break for Children’s Business First of Columbus Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - 10:32 AM EST Columbus City Council has approved a tax break for Nationwide Children’s Hospital valued at up to $15 million as it plans to add more than 4,000 jobs in little more than a decade. Council at its Monday night meeting approved the 15-year tax incentive, part of the city’s Jobs Growth Incentive program. The legislation grants the hospital a 30 percent return of income taxes generated by newly added jobs. Children’s, which employs more than 6,000, has said it plans to add 4,200 jobs through 2020 at its campus southeast of downtown, with about 2,400 of the jobs added by 2013. The job growth is driven by an $842 million expansion of its campus at Parsons and East Livingston avenues begun in September. A 12-story main tower is scheduled to open in 2012. The city has estimated the initial 2,400 jobs created in the next five years would generate $3.36 million in annual city income taxes. Read more at http://www.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2008/12/01/daily9.html
December 5, 200816 yr Updated Children's Hospital site plan with additional information on construction projects at http://www.nationwidechildrens.org/gd/templates/pages/AboutUs/AboutUs.aspx?page=9563
March 29, 200916 yr Included among the 149 Ohio projects selected by the State of Ohio for federal stimulus dollars was a project related to the Children's Hospital expansion. From the article linked below... Stimulus roadwork selected: 149 Ohio projects "Work should begin in three to six months on nearly a dozen transportation projects in Central Ohio that made the cut yesterday for federal economic-stimulus funding. Gov. Strickland announced the list of 149 road, bridge and other transportation projects statewide being funded all or in part with $774 million in stimulus spending to help jump-start the economy. Franklin: City of Columbus, Parsons/Livingston avenues upgrade as part of Nationwide Children's Hospital expansion, $25 million. Widen and improve the avenues with new turn lanes and traffic signals, improved street-lighting, wider sidewalks and dedicated bicycle lanes. The work is part of a new $740 million pediatric-care and research-facility project."
April 3, 200916 yr Multi-story update on the Children's Hospital expansion project from Columbus Business First. New price tag too at $842 million! Children’s Hospital expansion reaches beyond campus boundaries Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Friday, March 27, 2009 In an $842 million hospital expansion the smallest things can stand out – like a compact task light that lets a nurse check vital signs in the middle of the night without waking a sleeping child. From the executive on the way to a budget meeting riding the elevator with a child to the workers in hard hats, the focus stays on the reason Nationwide Children’s Hospital is adding a 12-story hospital tower, research space, an energy plant, parking and a 6-acre park. “It’s about the kids,” said Jim Beitel, project executive with Turner Construction Co., the main contractor on the tower. For Children’s and its academic partner, Ohio State University College of Medicine, it means attracting talented researchers, their grants, teams of support staff, and the latest equipment and facilities for medical care and training of new doctors. For the city, it means about $3.3 million more income tax collections from the 2,400 jobs to be created by 2012. For the near south side, it means dozens of boarded up homes will get a facelift. For businesses on Parsons and Livingston avenues, it means an influx of those workers and the families of the expected 200,000 more patients at the new facility who might need to fill prescriptions and grab lunch between tests and procedures. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/30/focus1.html?page=2
April 3, 200916 yr Park land, parking represent olive branches to Nationwide Children's neighbors Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:07am EDT For decades, the prevailing message from south side neighbors to Nationwide Children’s Hospital was: Get offa my lawn! Or their park, more precisely. Ever since a hospital expansion took away part of the city’s Livingston Park in the 1960s, neighbors have been suspicious of further incursions, or that Children’s would start demolishing homes in an eastward move. Questions about both have dominated some public information sessions about its $842 million expansion. “Our proximity has always added a little concern,” said Tim Robinson, executive vice president and CFO. But neighborhood leaders, supporters and longtime critics alike, say relations have improved greatly in the last few years. The hospital hopes two expansion elements – a 1,500-space parking garage and a 6-acre green space extending the 9-acre park – are visible tokens of good will. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/30/focus5.html
April 3, 200916 yr Bigger Ronald McDonald House poised to serve influx of new families Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Friday, March 27, 2009 Out-of-state and international patients are expected to make up most of the growth as Nationwide Children’s Hospital projects treating 1 million children a year in 2012, up from 800,000 now. They’ll be a good fit for the charity that provides free housing for parents of hospitalized children. Children’s stirred neighborhood outcry in early 2007 when it announced the Ronald McDonald House that opened in 2005 on hospital grounds would be demolished to make way for an expansion. But the $10.5 million replacement that opened in the summer, across Livingston Avenue from the hospital, solved a problem for Ronald McDonald House Charities of Central Ohio by nearly doubling capacity. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/30/focus4.html
April 3, 200916 yr Hospital rooms at Children's get more space, plus latest technology and equipment Business First of Columbus - by Carrie Ghose Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:03am EDT A 720,000-square-foot replacement main hospital won’t so much revolutionize care at Nationwide Children’s Hospital as enable staff to put into practice a longtime philosophy, says its chief nursing officer. Doctors and nurses at Children’s for years have embraced family-centered care – allowing parents to stay in not only hospital rooms but trauma bays – but the 1960s and ‘70s-era structures don’t always allow the space, said Linda Stoverock, senior vice president for patient care services. Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/30/focus2.html
April 3, 200916 yr Features of new Nationwide Children's tower Business First of Columbus Tuesday, March 31, 2009, 11:12am EDT Rooms: About 300 square feet, up from a range of 160 to 241 square feet; distinct zones for patient, medical staff and family; electronic medical records; Internet access; individual control of light and temperature. Emergency department: 62 exam rooms, up from 47; enlarged trauma center; rooms dedicated to child abuse investigations and for dental, eye and bone emergencies. Former department renovated in 1993 to become larger urgent care center. Blood unit: Combines inpatient and outpatient treatment for blood disorders, including chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant, into 36-bed unit with infusion area. Neurodiagnostics: 36 beds for EEG, sleep disorder studies and other inpatient diagnosis of the brain and nerves. Intensive care: 30 dedicated beds on one floor and a separate 20-bed unit for heart and transplant patients. Equipment on booms so it can be swung away from the bed or swapped as needed. Theater: With advanced equipment and seating that accommodates wheelchairs and beds. Other extras: Lounges, play areas, outdoor dining spaces. 2008 addition: Added surgical suites, expanded space for the digestive disorders program, and offices for epidemiological and other computer-based research. Older hospital: Nearly 170 of the hospital’s existing 352 beds, mainly in 1976 and 1961 structures, will stay in use. The rest will convert to offices and other uses. Source: Nationwide Children’s Hospital Read more at http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/03/30/focus9.html
April 3, 200916 yr I wonder what will eventually be build on the former Bobb Chevrolet site. Maybe a mix of retail and housing in the future?
May 19, 200916 yr Author The Dispatch printed some great photos from atop one of the cranes currently rising over Children's new main hospital construction site. The two cranes do look pretty cool coming into the city from the highway. I also didn't realize the tallest stands at 300 ft. Link to the photos and audio slideshow: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/05/19/A1_crane_pix_combo.ART_ART_05-19-09_A1_H7DTG59.html?sid=101
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