From The Vindicator:
The facility has been open more than a month, but Akron Children’s Hospital’s second Trumbull County pediatric primary-care office at 661 Mahoning Ave. NW got a public reveal Thursday.
The office has 12 exam rooms and three medical providers. It is in the remodeled former American Red Cross Building.
The site has historical significance, being in front of the Pioneer Cemetery, an early Connecticut Western Reserve burial grounds dating back to 1804. It is the gravesite for 12 Revolutionary War veterans, among others.
Akron Children’s Hospital turned the building into a modern architectural structure that one hospital official said he believes is pleasing to “the eyes and mind of a child.”
“It’s just really remarkable,” Dr. Norman Christopher, chairman of the Department of Pediatrics for the hospital, said of the building’s new look.
The hospital has a facility at 5000 E. Market St. near Howland High School that serves about 10,000 children annually and opened in 2011.
The newest facility is expected to serve about 3,000 patients.
But Dr. Christopher said he expects the new facility to be “bursting at the seams” before long and need additional space in the same way the other Warren location has been “wildly successful.”
The hospital also has 25 pediatric facilities in Northeast Ohio, including the Beeghly Campus on Market Street in Boardman.
Both Warren locations offer services such as well-child visits or routine checkups, immunizations, sports, school and camp physicals, treatment for illness and injury and chronic disease management.
