Article: Medical center increases its local focus. (Christ Hospital and Medical Center's Hope Children's Hospital)

Christ Hospital's pediatric facility aims to serve south communities

Executives at Christ Hospital and Medical Center have high hopes that their new pediatric hospital will persuade more South Side and south suburban families to have their sick children treated closer to home.

Hope Children's Hospital, a freestanding facility on Christ Hospital's Oak Lawn campus, opened officially late last month.

Its 45 in-patient beds, 15 pediatric intensive care beds and entire first floor dedicated to outpatient services replace Christ Hospital's 52 pediatric beds and 10 pediatric intensive care beds. Staff and physicians were transferred from the main building's ...

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