Columbus, Ohio-based Nationwide Children’s Hospital said it will break ground in February on the $85 million Livingston Ambulatory Center, a six-story medical center that is expected to handle 100,000 patient visits a year.
The ambulatory center is the second Nationwide facility to be built in 2015. The organization has already broken ground on a new $45 million faculty building that will house academic offices that currently are crowding the main hospital as the medical staff expands. The faculty building will be linked to the hospital by an underground tunnel and will feature retail space on the first floor.
The 200,000 square foot ambulatory center will house an assortment of physicians, including those focused on primary care, dental health, behavioral health, dermatology, sports rehab and its own Center for Healthy Weight and Nutrition.
Nationwide is considered one of the country’s top children’s hospitals, and employs more than 10,000 people.