"Children's is a healing place and all that we imagined for this hospital is coming to pass - a little earlier than we had anticipated," said Cathey Finlon, hospital board chair. "When we planned and built the new hospital, we knew the community would embrace this new facility. As a not for profit hospital, we moved forward with caution and conviction and have found that more families than ever want to use our facility."

The Children's Hospital has a 100-year history of providing care to children and offering a broad array of pediatric specialties. The new tower will allow the hospital to expand in a new direction and help both high-risk pregnant women and their babies in a center for advanced maternal fetal medicine, a partnership with the University of Colorado Hospital that was announced in early July. It also will allow the hospital to expand existing services, including the Heart Institute, Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, digestive health, neuro sciences, orthopedics and rehabilitation, respiratory, solid organ transplantation, as well as the medical surgical units and the neonatal, pediatric and cardiac intensive care units.

SOURCE Children's Hospital