DIAMOND CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER

Diamond Children's Medical Center is a partnership between University Medical Center and The University of Arizona Steele Children's Research Center focused on bringing advanced care and compassion to all children in Southern Arizona. In fact, it will be the only children's health facility in southern Arizona connected to an academic medical center. As a result, children have the advantage of being treated by leading experts with the latest diagnostics and therapeutic procedures.

Diamond Children's Medical Center is designed to provide the most advanced health care possible while maintaining a comfortable, healing atmosphere for children and their families.

Newly constructed floors at University Medical Center house the children's medical center. The new emergency and trauma center on the first floor contains a separate pediatric emergency department with its own entrance, waiting room and pediatric triage area, so that children are treated separately from adults by emergency physicians who specialize in pediatrics. Open 24 hours a day year-round, this new pediatric emergency department is the only such facility in Southern Arizona.

The next two floors house 88 critical-care and medical-surgical beds to serve the two emergency units.

Diamond Children's Medical Center occupies the fourth, fifth and sixth floors. A dedicated ground floor entrance leads to an elevator with direct access to the new children's facility. Future plans call for a children's operating room with children's pre-operative and post-operative area.

The total cost for just the Diamond Children's medical facility is estimated to be $55 million. Funding for completion must come from external sources - primarily charitable giving.

Diamond Children's Medical Center opened in 2010

Diamond Children's Medical Center offers a number of new programs and services to Southern Arizona. These include a dedicated children's emergency department, pediatric cancer and bone marrow unit, extended-stay intensive care for long-term patients and a classroom where long-term patients can continue their education.