The University is currently in the preliminary planning phase for a new children’s outpatient building that will be part of the University Health System.
Senior Facility Planner Luis Carrazana said he hopes the building, which will be called the Barry and Bill Battle Building, will begin construction toward the end of 2010 and will contain about 180,000 square feet.
The building will provide multidisciplinary outpatient services so children will be able to see all of their healthcare providers in one location, said Nancy McDaniel, Children’s Medical Center medical director.
“We have many outpatient clinics that serve children — All over the Health Grounds for the University, there’s a goal to put all of our outpatient clinics in one building so children come to one place to see their general pediatrician, orthopedist, plastic surgeon,” McDaniel said. “Sometimes children who have complex or chronic medical conditions would have to go to three or four different places in one day to get their health care.”
McDaniel also said she hopes this addition will improve access to health services for patients as well as the care patients receive. She added that she hopes to have mental health providers available, as well.
The building — which will house exam rooms and offer outpatient surgeries — will be located on West Main Street with an alternative entrance on Jefferson Park Avenue and will be connected to the Health System via a system of bridges, Carrazana explained. He added that, per zoning requirements in the City of Charlottesville, there will be a retail vendor in the building as well.
Carrazana said there are no current designs for the building, and there are still funding issues to be addressed. The last price estimate for the building — more than $50 million — was made more than five years ago and is liable to change, according to McDaniel.
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