Cardon Children's Medical Center Expansion

Cardon Children's Medical Center is the centerpiece of a $356 major expansion project underway on the Banner Desert Medical Center campus. Read the announcement about Cardon Children's Medical Center expansion

Watch our architectual presentation of the new Cardon Children's Medical Center.

This new hospital will include many benefits for patients, their parents, family and friends, including:

• New 7-story, Cardon Children's Medical Center raises pediatric bed capacity to 248, up from 145.
• Project includes construction of first two floors of a future tower that will allow for future total of 369 beds.
• Expand the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit – from 65 beds to 104 beds.
• Six new pediatric operating rooms featuring 35 private, child-friendly pre- and post-op areas.
• New and expanded Pediatric Emergency Department, increasing from 15 to 26 beds.
• Outpatient Treatment Center includes 16 beds that can serve as overflow for Emergency Department during peak evening hours.
• Dedicated Pediatric Radiology Department.
• Dedicated Pediatric Rehabilitation unit.
• Dedicated pediatric cancer and blood disorder unit.
• Dedicated Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, with shelled space for future PICU expansion.
• Family-and child-centered Registration, Lobby, Chapel, and Gift Shop.
• Separate treatment rooms on every floor.
• Private patient rooms with ample space for patient and family members, including private baths.
• Family lounges, dietary stations and laundry rooms for family use.
• Interactive play/family spaces.
• Unique interior design that emulates nature scenes and individual houses at the entrance to every room.
• Forever Young Zone, a multipurpose auditorium/performance space, being designed by Steve Young’s Forever Young Foundation.

“Everything we’ve learned and know about pediatric health care leads us to one conclusion: that kids are not miniature versions of adults and their health care setting must reflect that,” said Rhonda Anderson, pediatric administrator of Cardon Children's Medical Center.  “Our current model of operating the children’s hospital inside the adult care setting has served its purpose, but we have run out of room and must now expand to meet the needs of children in a new and larger facility.”