Nemours Children’s Hospital in Orlando will get a massive upgrade in the next few years as part of a $300 million expansion.
Nemours announced a plan Tuesday to add three new buildings to its hospital campus at Lake Nona.
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The plan includes a 110,000-square-foot expansion of the pediatric hospital by 2028, which will double the size of the Emergency Department. It will also add inpatient beds and observation rooms and increase space for the imaging department.
Nemours also plans to build a new 75,000-square-foot facility by 2028. This facility adds six new operating rooms for the surgery center as well as new patient exam rooms.
It will also house Nemours' orthopedics division and expand the sports medicine and rehabilitation therapy services. Nemours will operate a new International Center for Limb Lengthening there to help patients with conditions like clubfoot, limb length discrepancies, joint contractures and other conditions.
Nemours will also house Florida’s first Gait and Motion Analysis lab. This facility helps children who have a neuromuscular condition that makes movement difficult, such as spina bifida or cerebral palsy.
A new administrative building and parking garage are also expected to open in 2027.
Nemours says it already currently cares for over 300,000 children and teens in Florida, and Central Florida’s pediatric population of 1 million is expected to grow by nearly 5% in the next five years.
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