Children’s Health and UT Southwestern Medical Center have selected a team from HKS and Perkins&Will to design a $5 billion pediatric health campus in Dallas. Located on more than 33 acres in the city’s southwest medical district, the campus with a “patient-centered design that can meet the growing need for more pediatric services, from the most common to the most complex,” according to the design team
“While both companies have designed children’s hospitals around the world, it’s amazing to work on one in your own backyard,” says Rachel Knox, chief project officer at HKS. The components include a new 2 million square meters. foot children’s hospital The total project will include 4.5 million square feet of construction.
McCarthy Vaughn Partnership, a joint venture of McCarthy Building Companies and JT Vaughn Construction, will serve as construction manager. Construction is expected to begin in the second half of 2024. The hospital “will potentially open within the next six to seven years,” according to Children’s Health.
The new campus includes 552 beds with room for expansion, more space in the emergency department and additional operating rooms. The Level I pediatric trauma center will include 90 ER exam rooms, 24 observation rooms and two helicopter pads.
A pedestrian bridge will be built between the campus and neighboring Clements University Hospital. A new center will provide complex maternal and fetal health care, including fetal surgery capabilities, at the adjacent Clements University Hospital. A new outpatient building will add 96 exam rooms to the existing 344 at the Dallas Specialty Center.
