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No children's hospital stands on this ground or in any of its serving towns; the line the record supports is a single sentence long, and it is this: the children of the Walkerton ground who need hospital care beyond its clinics go to South Bend, to Beacon Children's Hospital at Memorial Hospital, the region's only designated children's hospital and the referral centre for the hospitals around it. Beacon's own release of April 6, 2017 records the renaming — on completion of the new children's hospital, Memorial Children's Hospital became Beacon Children's Hospital, with the first patients received into the new space in May 2017. The facility the system describes is a $46 million, 109-bed children's hospital (the system's physician quarterly for summer 2017 gives 95,000 square feet and notes the new building more than tripled the children's facilities previously carried inside Memorial; both figures print as their sources give them). Its newborn intensive care line reaches back to 1981, with Level III perinatal certification restated in Beacon's release of December 2, 2019, and the system claims the first couplet-care offering in the country. The transfer pattern that connects this ground to that building is not inference: the 2018 chamber release announcing Bremen's entry into Beacon already notes Bremen's teams transferring acute patients to Beacon's Memorial Hospital, and the children's service is the destination at the end of that same road for paediatric cases. Stated at boundary size, as the leg requires: one children's hospital, one city, one transfer direction — Walkerton's children are hospitalised in South Bend.
Sources: Beacon Health System news release, "Welcome to Beacon Children's Hospital," April 6, 2017; Beacon Physician Quarterly, Summer 2017; Beacon news release on Level III perinatal certification, December 2, 2019; Beacon recruiting and system records describing the children's hospital as the region's designated referral centre; South Bend Regional Chamber release, May 8, 2018 (Bremen affiliation and transfer pattern).