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Construction Begins on the Nemours Children’s Hospital


Nemours recently began construction on the Nemours Children’s Hospital in Lake Nona’s medical city. The 630,000-square-foot children’s hospital will include 95 beds and serve as the core of a 60-acre pediatric health campus featuring a children’s clinic, emergency department, diagnostic and ambulatory programs along with education and research centers. Nemours plans to open the $380 million hospital in 2012.

The new top-tier pediatric health care system will focus on the unique and varied needs of medically complex children – and bring a comprehensive depth of specialized health care that isn’t offered today in Central Florida. Nemours’ campus will provide access to a full-line of specialty services and will also improve pediatric care to the region through coordinated patient-centered medical services, biomedical research, medical and allied health training, educational programs as well as pediatric prevention services and child advocacy programs.

“We have worked toward this day for several years and our dream of improving health care services for Central Florida’s children is finally coming to fruition,” stated Bill Winder, Nemours senior administrator – Florida. “We are creating an integrated pediatric health care system for the future that will have far reaching benefits.”

Skanska USA Building Inc. serves as the construction manager that is overseeing the construction process of the project. This firm has tremendous international and national experience building truly innovative structures, and the Central Florida team brings strong health care facility experience to the project. Nemours and Skanska intend to have an aggressive outreach program to identify local MWBE firms and will work to tailor the procurement strategy to maximize the number of opportunities for the MWBE subs.

Nemours fully anticipates meeting the mandated Agency for Health Care Administration deadline of August 19, 2009 to show commencement of continuous construction on the hospital. Below are several proposed renderings and aerial photos of the Nemours Children’s Hospital.