Coming Fall 2024: The Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital
This state-of-the-art hospital in Columbus, Georgia will be the only freestanding children’s hospital in our region, dedicated to treating sick and injured kids in a child-friendly environment and positioned to deliver best-in-class children’s healthcare for years to come. In addition to providing specialty inpatient rooms to accommodate the vast array of pediatric patients we serve, this new facility will provide the space needed to expand our pediatric programs and services well into the future.
“Let’s dream big. Let’s dream of a children’s hospital for Columbus and the surrounding west Georgia and east Alabama area that offers comprehensive and quality healthcare dedicated to our children. Such a dream is now close to reality. When completed, the new children’s hospital in Columbus will be one more jewel in the crown of excellent health care offered by Piedmont Columbus Regional.
Our family is pleased to support this effort, and are honored that the children’s hospital will be named after Bill and Olivia Amos, whom we loved dearly and who were the very best parents and grandparents to us.”
– Isa Cheves Meeks, Cecil Cheves, Bettye Cheves, Olivia Cheves Blanchard, Avery Cheves Wolff
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With a lobby that mirrors the beauty of the city’s river and wood features with artistic patterns and attractive seating to mimic the river bank, as well as child-friendly décor throughout, patients and families will be comforted knowing they are in a unique place dedicated to treating children.
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Other exciting features will include:
- Thirty (30) inpatient rooms with child-friendly aesthetics, expansive exterior windows, and sleeping accommodations for parents.
- A five (5) bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) for our most critically ill or injured children;
- A six (6) bed Intermediate Care Unit (IMCU) for patients stepping down from ICU but still monitored;
- Four (4) sibling rooms to accommodate twins or siblings hospitalized together;
- Two (2) isolation and Two (2) behavioral safe rooms featuring a controlled environment for one-on-one observation when patients need emotional support;
- A dedicated Treatment & Procedure Room where children will receive treatments and procedures during hospitalization so their hospital room will always be a ‘safe space’;
- Family-centered amenities to ease the burden of our patients’ loved ones, including:
- A Family Lounge to relax, watch TV or connect with loved ones
- Family laundry facilities
- A family food pantry stocked with community donations
- Room service dining that will offer a custom meal service to order
- A nature-inspired and handicapped-accessible garden walk that will also connect the two facilities for families to enjoy a respite;
- An outdoor playground for visiting siblings;
- Community conference room;
- Expanded space for clinical programs and physician offices.
Growing Care for Growing Children
We have extraordinary pediatricians and specialists in our community, but we’re recruiting more to help address the growing needs of children. The Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital will provide a place for the most talented specialists to come and work in a community so committed to the health and well-being of its children. With the completion of the new facility, programs like pediatric rehabilitation, gastroenterology, cardiology, oncology, ENT, diabetes, surgery, and so much more can be provided under one roof.
Help Us Dream Big
The Cheves family’s generosity and commitment to children has made it possible to Dream Big and renovate the former Doctors Hospital facility, but we will need our community’s help to make this dream come true. To support this effort and ensure its success, the Piedmont Columbus Regional Foundation has launched a $20 million campaign.
To learn more about how you can be a part of this dream for children, please contact Aline Lasseter at the Piedmont Columbus Regional Foundation at 706-660-6115 or by email, pcr_foundation@piedmont.org. Your generous support will truly make a difference in every child’s life we touch.
Children’s Miracle Network Partnership
Since joining the CMN family of children’s hospitals in 1995, our children’s hospital benefits from year-round fundraising from more than 130 CMN national and local sponsors throughout our region. When you support one of our CMN sponsors or partners, you’ll know that your support directly benefits the Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital.