Cook Children’s Health Care System announced plans to build a new children’s hospital on 23 acres at Windsong Parkway and US 380 in the city of Prosper, which is directly north of Frisco.

Phase I for Cook Children’s Medical Center North is underway, and primary and urgent care services will be available beginning in the fall, according to an April 25 Cook Children’s news release.

An outpatient surgery center and a comprehensive outpatient specialty center with imaging and lab services is set to open in spring 2020, according to the news release. The inpatient pediatric hospital is slated to open in 2022. The hospital will include a neonatal intensive care unit, emergency department, operating rooms and a surgical unit.

This will be Cook Children’s fourth medical center campus.The health care system already has a presence in Hurst, Plano and Fort Worth, serving Tarrant, Denton, Hood, Johnson, Parker and Wise counties.

“Cook Children’s has made a promise to improve the health of every child in our six-county region, and that means we have to continue to expand our reach to keep up with a rapidly growing area like we are seeing in Prosper and Denton County,” said Nancy Cychol, chief of Cook Children’s Hospital Services, in the news release. “By looking ahead at the growing pediatric health care needs in this community, we are ensuring our promise is kept.”

In a separate announcement on April 25, Children's Health released plans for its own 72-acre medical site about three miles away, along US 380 at the Dallas North Tollway in Prosper. That site will offer pediatric health care services as well as corporate, hospitality and retail facilities, according to a Children's Health news release.