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UPMC Gives Inside Look At New Hospital: Video Inside
Children's Hospital To Open In 2009
POSTED: 4:50 pm EDT October 27,
2007
UPDATED: 4:57 pm EDT October 27,
2007
PITTSBURGH -- UPMC officials gave Channel 11 News an inside look at the new Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh on Saturday.The campus is set to open in Lawrenceville in about a year and a half.There will be nine buildings on the site of the former St. Francis Hospital, including a nine-story building for patients and a 10-story research center.Most of the nearly 300 patient rooms will be private, so parents can stay overnight with their children.Another feature is the spacious four-story atrium, called a family resource center, where children can interact with parents and caregivers.The new Children's Hospital is expected to open in May 2009.It will cost $620 million to build.
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