Boston Children's Hospital has announced plans to add nearly 50 beds to its outpatient facility in Waltham, Mass., as part of a $1.5 billion expansion and renovation plan, according to The Boston Globe.
Currently, the Waltham facility offers day surgery and includes physicians in nearly 100 specialties. Expanding the facility would increase Boston Children's footprint in a region of Massachusetts that is close to major highways and surrounded by wealthy suburbs.
Adding beds in Waltham is part of a broader $1.5 billion expansion and renovation plan Boston Children's has to revamp its aging Longwood Medical Area campus in Boston and build an 11-story clinical tower there, scheduled to open by 2021.
In addition to adding beds, the expansion plan calls for doubling the number of operating rooms in Waltham to 12 and increasing mental health services, among other specialties.
Executives at Boston Children's tell The Boston Globe they're seeing enough new patients from around the country and the world to justify the expansion. The hospital earned $113 million on operations last year — a 28 percent increase from 2013 — due to a surge in international patients, according to the report.