Like the children we serve, we were experiencing growing pains. When we established The Children's Hospital at Carolinas Medical Center in 1992, we not only met the need of our region's children, we surpassed them.

As a public, not-for-profit hospital, it is our mission to care for children from all walks of life and with every imaginable need. The quality of our healthcare services continues to improve every year — due to advances in research and technology  — but we were challenged daily by physical limitations. We simply ran out of room.

More than half a million children live in the 28-county region surrounding Charlotte. An additional 100,000 children are projected to be born into or move into this area by the year 2015. There was no dedicated pediatric facility in the region that could adequately accommodate this growth. By consulting with key area physicians, community representatives and families of patients, we have designed a facility that will meet the needs of the growing region and provide exceptional children's healthcare well into the future.