The ambulatory care center, which was first announced in 2014, will offer pediatric sports medicine clinical care and research as well as orthopedic care.
Here are three things to know about the hospital’s future location in Frisco:
Sports medicine will be a focus of the new facility.
The Frisco campus will be anchored by the Center for Excellence in Sports Medicine. Athletic fields will be attached to the center for patients and the community to use, said Mark Bateman, TSRHC senior vice president of public relations.
Frisco Mayor Maher Maso said one-third of Frisco’s population is younger than age 17. A large portion of those children are involved in youth sports, he said.
“Our No. 1 reason for existing as a community is the public health, safety and welfare. That’s what we’re here for; it overrides all else,” Maso said. “What Scottish Rite Hospital is bringing to our community is really important. It is a key component of who we are.”
The Frisco facility has tripled in size since it was first announced.
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children's Frisco facility will be about 345,000 square feet.[/caption]The facility is planned to be 345,000 square feet, more than three times larger than the original 100,000-square-foot center announced in 2014.
Bateman said the size increase is a result of the expected expansion at the facility. Much of this space will be shelled in and left open until the hospital is ready to add more services at the facility, he said.
“Over the past two years, we’ve been working very hard to make sure we can identify what the need and the opportunities are in that area,” Bateman said. “…[Frisco] is growing so rapidly and it’s such a dynamic area that we recognized that it would be difficult to really estimate [the facility’s size] accurately without doing a lot of homework.”
The Frisco campus broke ground 95 years after the Dallas campus was established.
TSRHC was established in 1921 when a group of masons wanted to address the epidemic of polio in the area. The hospital later broadened its services to treat other orthopedic conditions.
The Frisco campus is the first facility the hospital has built outside of its Dallas campus. The Frisco campus sits on about 40 acres of land, and the facility will take up about 10 acres of land. The facility is expected to open in fall 2018.
