Shriner’s Medical Center Says ‘Hello’ to Pasadena

Shriners’ patient Gianna Mantucca and her family.

 

A new $77 million, state-of-the-art Shriners for Children Medical Center is coming to Pasadena next spring, and its leaders threw a “Hello!” party for friends and contributors at the home of Bill and Maureen Hollingsworth Friday evening.

 

“We chose Pasadena for a number of reasons,” said Development Director Aaron Hanson. “First, the location. It’s a wonderful community, and we just just wanted the chance to be a part of this community is a wonderful opportunity for us. Then, the proximity to Huntington Hospital, our clinical partner, that was another reason we chose Pasadena.”

 

As Hanson explained the collaboration, “Huntington Hospital has surgical facilities so that our doctors and our nurses who are working on our patients use their surgical suites for procedures. The new medical center that we’re building has no capacity for in-patient surgeries, procedures which require an overnight stay or more. Eighty-five percent of what we do is everything that occurs before and after surgery, so our medical center is designed around that.”

 

Hanson added, “Tonight’s event is really about letting people know we are coming, this is what we do, and this is why what we do is important, and as we like to say, ‘We give hope, heal kids, and change lives.”’”

 

The new medical center, one of 22 specialty pediatric centers across the nation, has scheduled a dedication ceremony for April of 2017.

 

The 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 children and families in the greater Pasadena area and across the Southwest, regardless of the families’ ability to pay.

 

Located on South Fair Oaks Avenue, the project will include approximately 75,000 square feet of new construction, including three levels of subterranean parking with 250 stalls and green roof terraces.