A new tower at Children’s Medical Center Plano will triple bed counts. Take a look inside

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Kailey Broussard / KERA Graham Torres, Children’s Health vice president of facilities operations, walks reporters through the new tower at Children’s Medical Center Plano on Oct. 17, 2024. The hospital’s design emphasizes natural light in rooms like this one, which offers wide-range outdoor views.

A nearly complete new tower at Children’s Medical Center Plano will allow the hospital to grow along with Collin County.

Less than two months out from the eight-story tower’s opening date, Graham Torres, Children’s Health vice president of facilities operations, compared the final weeks to moving into a newly built house.

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Kailey Broussard / KERA News Children’s Health will open a new tower at Children’s Medical Center Plano by the end of 2024.

“We’re in that fit-out stage where we have the proverbial U-Haul backed out to the back of the house,” he said.

As Torres guided reporters through the 395,000 square-foot tower Thursday, workers set up computers and moved in equipment. The new space will nearly double Children’s Medical Center Plano’s emergency department capacity and triple the campus bed count to 212 beds…

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