Nemours Meets AHCA Milestone for Certificates of Need

Florida’s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) officially determined that Nemours has successfully met its statutory obligation to demonstrate continuous construction of the new Orlando Children’s Hospital within 18 months of receiving its Certificates of Need (CON).

The CON issued in February 2008 gave Nemours an 18-month window to begin continuous construction on the facility with a deadline of August 18, 2009.  The AHCA notification allows Nemours to continue construction as the organization works toward opening the $380 million top-tier pediatric health campus in 2012.

“We have been working diligently to ensure compliance with our Certificate of Need,” said Jeffery E. Green, Nemours vice president and chief administrative officer—Florida.  “We have comfortably met this important milestone and will continue to work toward making this children’s hospital a truly visionary destination for pediatric care in the community and beyond.”

Construction began in June with the foundation work beginning in early August.  The 630,000-square-foot hospital will include 95 beds and serve as the core of a 60-acre pediatric health campus featuring a clinic, emergency department, diagnostic and ambulatory programs along with education and research centers.

This new 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’ new 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.

View daily images of the construction site through the Web cam at the Nemours Children’s Hospital.

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