Children’s Hospital to Mark Pediatric Wing Opening
The public is invited to attend a ceremony today to help Children’s Hospital of Orange County celebrate the opening of its new wing.
The event culminates a five-year construction project in which CHOC has built a state-of-the-art, acute-care pediatric facility. The new building also has a radiology laboratory, a pharmacy and sleeping quarters for parents and physicians.
KTLA Channel 5 sportscaster Ed Arnold will host a brief ceremony beginning at 11:30 a.m. at the hospital’s new entrance, on Pepper Street, near La Veta Avenue and Main Street. A time capsule will also be buried.
The time capsule will contain a letter detailing current treatments and future expected cures of cystic fibrosis as requested by a 13-year-old patient, Eddie Arrioja, who died of the disease in January. Other contents will include patient artwork, hospital newsletters, a March Newsweek article on health care reform, CHOC mugs and a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle doll.
Hospital officials plan to open the time capsule in the year 2014, when CHOC celebrates its 50th anniversary. It will be buried within the brick walkway in front of the entrance, which bears inscriptions honoring individuals and organizations who have donated to the hospital’s ongoing “Pave the Way” fund-raising campaign to help fund the new wing.
After the ceremony, guests will view the new first-floor lobby and an exhibit of artwork by two parents of hospital patients.
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