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COURTESY OF AKRON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL
SEVEN STORIES OF CONSOLIDATED SERVICES DEDICATED TO PATIENT NEEDS
In late 2018, Akron Children’s Considine Professional Building addition will open to patient families on the Akron campus. The addition brings together most of Akron Children’s outpatient clinics and programs in one place and allows for the expansion of specialty care services currently located in the Considine Building.
Akron Children’s Hospital was again ranked among the best pediatric hospitals by U.S. News & World Report in 2018, but it’s their compassionate approach to treatment since 1890 that makes the hospital exceptional. To ensure families have convenient access to care, it has two hospital campuses in Northeast Ohio and more than 60 primary, specialty and urgent care locations. The hospital collaborates with many community partners to bring neonatal and pediatric expertise to patients in their healthcare facilities, and its home care and school health nurses treat children in their homes and schools.
Patients and their families will be able to schedule multiple primary and specialty care appointments in the same building, and the new walking bridge connecting the Considine Building with the main hospital building and Kay Jewelers Pavilion will ease navigation around the Akron campus.
The Locust Pediatric Care Group serves as a medical home for children and adolescents. The Group has a unique interest in children with special healthcare needs, international families, foster parents and adopted children.
New Welcome Centers on Levels 2 and 3 allow patients to register for appointments via staffed desks and self-serve kiosks. To improve the patient-family experience, the addition will also feature the Garden Patch Bistro, lactation rooms, family restrooms with adult-size changing tables and an expanded outpatient lab and new pharmacy. greaterakroncham ber.o rg
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