Phoenix Children’s building new Glendale hospital

PHOENIX CHILDREN’S — one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems — announced it is building a new freestanding, three-story hospital in Glendale. Phoenix Children’s Hospital-Arrowhead Campus will offer inpatient care, an emergency department, an outpatient surgery center and a multi-specialty clinic. The new hospital is expected to open in the spring of 2024 on the north end of the Abrazo Arrowhead Campus, 18701 N. 67th Ave. in Glendale.

“Phoenix Children’s is heavily investing in communities throughout the state to ensure families can access high-quality care for children, right in their own neighborhood,” Robert L. Meyer, president and CEO of Phoenix Children’s, said in a statement. “This need is especially pressing in the West Valley, where booming population growth has spiked the demand for pediatric health care services.”

The new hospital represents an investment of $134.7 million, and is the third West Valley project Phoenix Children’s has announced in the last six months. All told, the projects are expected to bring 650 jobs to the area.

In March, the health system announced it will break ground on the Southwest Campus in Avondale — a freestanding emergency department and expanded specialty clinic will open in 2023 at the Phoenix Children’s Southwest Valley Specialty and Urgent Care Center. And Phoenix Children’s Sports Medicine Clinic-Avondale is expected to open later this year providing physical therapy, rehabilitation and education services to the West Valley’s young athletes.

The new Glendale hospital will offer 24 inpatient beds, six operating rooms, two minor procedure rooms, 30 emergency bays/trauma rooms, and other specialty services. Phoenix Children’s comprises Phoenix Children’s Hospital-Main Campus, Phoenix Children’s Hospital-East Valley at Dignity Health Mercy Gilbert Medical Center, four pediatric specialty and urgent care centers, 11 community pediatric practices, 20 outpatient clinics, two ambulatory surgery centers and six community-service-related outpatient clinics throughout Arizona. phoenixchildrens.org