Children’s of Mississippi Expansion and Addition

Batson Children’s Hospital averages 9,000 admissions annually, with patients coming from all 82 counties in Mississippi and around the country to receive medical care for everything from childhood illnesses to life-threatening trauma cases.

The new seven-story, 340,000-square-foot tower is adjacent to Batson Children’s Hospital. The structure houses a neonatal intensive care unit with private rooms, pediatric intensive care unit with private rooms, surgical suites, and an imaging center designed for children. The Children’s Heart Center, representing UMMC’s pediatric cardiovascular program, also calls the new building home.

Additionally, the hospital provides care in more than 30 specialty areas, including newborn medicine, pediatric cardiology, neurology, and surgery. It houses the state’s only pediatric intensive care unit and emergency department along with Mississippi’s only pediatric treatment programs for cancer, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell anemia, and congenital heart defects.

The new tower and its components accommodates 30-40 percent more outpatient treatments, 40 percent more surgeries, and double the access to imaging services.

CDFL is the associate architect with HDR Dallas.