Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper

Cook Children's began developing the health care landscape in Prosper, Texas, in 2019 with the opening of an urgent care center and several area primary care offices, followed by a medical office building and outpatient surgery center in 2020. By 2021, construction was underway for a medical center that would support these existing services and bring the world-class care Cook Children's is known for closer to the homes of children living in the northeastern sector of Texas. Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper kicked off fiscal year 2022 with a topping out ceremony to celebrate the completion of the medical center's steel structure. The remainder of the year was full steam ahead finishing the facility that was carefully and imaginatively designed with everything for the child and community in mind. At completion, the medical center will add to the 23-acre Prosper campus an emergency department; a surgical and procedural floor; an infusion center; an outpatient imaging center; a retail pharmacy; an inpatient unit with medical-surgical and pediatric intensive care beds; and two floors of shell space that allow for growth to meet the future needs of the community. The emergency department is slated to open with 10 beds, with the ability to add 10 more beds when needed to support the emergency care needs of children. Plans call for a total of four operating rooms, with two opening initially and the others opening as community growth demands. Each operating room will be equipped with technology that allows for real-time remote viewing and physician collaboration with colleagues at Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth if needed. This gives Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper patients and families the advantage of the health system's full network of world-class physicians and surgeons. Twelve private pre-operative exam rooms will support children as they are prepped for surgery, and a surgery waiting area will offer families a private space to wait while a child undergoes a procedure. Children in Prosper and throughout the northern region of the state needing intravenous infusion therapy have had to travel to Cook Children's Medical Center in Fort Worth or to Dallas for care. A dedicated infusion center at Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper will bring this critical service close to home for these families. In addition, a specialty procedure area, also referred to as the SPA, will feature three procedure rooms for gastroenterologists, pulmonologists and ear, nose and throat specialists. Supporting each of these services will be an imaging center equipped with all of the imaging and diagnostic technology needed to provide advanced care for pediatric patients. The patient and visitor experience was paramount in creating the building's blueprint. Each space of the facility was designed to invite imagination, discovery, play and rest in a way that connects the dots between a patient's experience at Cook Children's and the health care they receive along the way. Each inpatient room will include a 65-inch television that can integrate with the patient and family's personal devices. The television will serve as an interactive hub for anything the patient may need, from ordering food to entertainment to connecting and consulting with Cook Children's specialty physicians at the medical center in Fort Worth if needed. As construction progressed, administrators were hard at work hiring talent to staff the new medical center. Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper is attracting trailblazing medical talent and will bring more than 500 jobs to the community. Trailblazers like Kanika Bowen-Jallow, M.D., a pediatric surgeon at Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper, and only the ninth Black female pediatric surgeon in the United States. Also, Tony Anani, M.D., MPH, MBA, gastroenterologist and Medical Director of Clinical Specialties at Cook Children's Medical Center - Prosper, who was the first physician hired at the medical center when all administrators had to show him was an empty parcel of land and a vision. Both Dr. Bowen-Jallow and Dr. Anani shared Cook Children's vision and has been instrumental in the development of the Prosper campus and its services. By the end of FY2022, construction of the facility was nearly complete, and an opening date was set for January 2023.