Mac Kids expanding critical care

Local kids with intensive medical needs will soon have access to more pediatric care.

Construction has just begun on a new pediatric critical care unit at McMaster Children’s Hospital to help treat children up to age 17, for a variety of severe injuries and life-threatening diseases.

The new unit will be almost 14,000 square feet – roughly double the existing space. And that’s good news to the manager of the pediatric critical care unit, Barb Jennings.
“People have been providing exemplary care in very cramped space and it will be so exciting to move into an actual critical care space.”
McMaster Children’s Hospital President Peter Fitzgerald says the expansion is essential.
“Not just for Hamilton but also for 600,000 children spanning from Niagara Falls to Kitchener-Waterloo.”
The old unit admitted over 750 kids last year. Construction on the new, expanded unit is expected to be complete this winter.
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