Shriners Break Ground on a New $77 Million Children’s Medical Center in Pasadena

A new  $77 million, state-of-the-art Shriners Hospitals for Children Medical Center broke ground on Fair Oaks Avenue on Wednesday.

Patient ambassadors led the groundbreaking ceremony at the new facility’s site, which is just south of Huntington Memorial Hospital. The facility is scheduled to open in mid-2017.

For over 60 years, Shriners Hospitals for Children – Los Angeles has transformed the lives of thousands of children in Southern California and across the Southwest.

The new outpatient care facility will include an ambulatory surgical center to house Shriners Hospitals for Children® Medical Center’s clinical, diagnostic, outpatient surgery and rehabilitation units, which will help bring exceptional specialty pediatric care to millions of children and families in the greater Pasadena area and across the Southwest, regardless of the families’ ability to pay.

The project will include demolition of two one-story existing structures and approximately 75,000 square feet of new construction, including three levels of subterranean parking with 250 stalls and green roof terraces.

Shriners Hospitals for Children – Los Angeles is a specialty hospital for orthopaedic conditions, prosthetics and orthotics, hand disorders, burn scars, and cleft lip and palate. Shriners Hospitals for Children provide world-class care to children under 18 regardless of the families’ ability to pay.