The children's-hospital line as its own test: Memorial Children's to Beacon Children's

TO 2017 AND AFTER · BOUNDARY SIZE — THE REGION'S ONLY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL

The test was run as its own line, and it is positive at boundary size: this ground's children were never served by a children's ward of convenience but by a named children's hospital in succession. Memorial Hospital's paediatric service carried the name Memorial Children's Hospital into the Beacon era. The succession event is dated April 6, 2017, when Beacon Health System announced, with its board's backing and the new children's hospital's construction complete, that Memorial Children's Hospital would become Beacon Children's Hospital — "a new name better reflects regional reach and services," in the system's words — with the first patients received in the new space in May 2017. The new house is measured in the system's own current record: opened in 2017 at a cost of $46 million, 109 beds in 101,530 square feet (the system's 2017 quarterly prints 95,000 square feet and "more than triples the previous facilities within Memorial Hospital"; both figures stand in the record and print here unreconciled), serving a thirteen-county region as the referral centre for twenty-nine hospitals, and standing in November 2026 as northern Indiana's only designated children's hospital, with the region's only paediatric intensive care unit. Its seat is the Memorial campus in South Bend — across the line, like every hospital in this section — and no children's hospital, children's ward or paediatric inpatient seat has ever stood inside the designated place, which is the same tested negative Health & Care prints for hospitals whole, run here for the children's line alone.

Sources: Beacon Health System, "Welcome to Beacon Children's Hospital," April 6, 2017 (the name change from Memorial Children's Hospital; first patients in May). Beacon Health System, Physician Quarterly, Summer 2017 (the 95,000-square-foot figure, the tripling, the early-May opening). Beacon Health System, current service and recruitment record, 2025–2026 (the $46 million cost, 109 beds, 101,530 square feet, thirteen counties, twenty-nine referring hospitals, the only designated children's hospital in northern Indiana).