The children's hospital: Memorial Children's to Beacon Children's

New home opened 2017 — renamed Beacon Children's Hospital 6 April 2017

The region's children's hospital: Children's care at Memorial grew inside the general hospital until it stood as an institution of its own. By 2013 the hospital's own account described Memorial Children's Hospital as the region's only designated children's hospital, serving twenty-two referring hospitals across northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan and averaging some four hundred pediatric transports a year — the MedFlight and transport services at that documented size, their clinical record belonging to the advancements leg. The children's hospital's own house came next: a $50 million investment in a 100,000-square-foot expansion, its groundbreaking held 17 September 2015 with patients and families at the ceremony in the system's chief executive Phil Newbold's tenure, toward which donors had given $10 million, as the children's hospital's own Fall 2015 newsletter records. When the new home was complete the name followed the system: on 6 April 2017, by Beacon's own release, "with the construction of the new Children's Hospital complete," the institution's name changed from Memorial Children's Hospital to Beacon Children's Hospital. It stands so today: Beacon's current locations record calls it the region's only comprehensive children's hospital, treating children referred from thirty-one hospitals across fifteen counties in Michigan and Indiana — the system's present figures, printed as it gives them, against the twenty-two referring hospitals of its own 2013 account.

Sources:

1. Memorial Children's Hospital / Four Winds Invitational release (GlobeNewswire, 22 February 2013) — the region's only designated children's hospital, twenty-two referring hospitals, and approximately four hundred pediatric transports a year, as the institution then stated them.
2. Memorial Children's Hospital newsletter (Fall 2015) and the groundbreaking record of 17 September 2015 — the $50 million, 100,000-square-foot expansion and the $10 million given by donors toward it.
3. Beacon Health System release, 6 April 2017 — the completion of the new children's hospital and the approved name change from Memorial Children's Hospital to Beacon Children's Hospital.
4. Beacon Health System, locations record (current, November 2026) — the region's only comprehensive children's hospital, thirty-one referring hospitals across fifteen counties, as the system now states it.