Enabled by a recent $1.5 million gift, Connecticut Children’s Medical Center (CCMC) said Wednesday that it will build the state’s first pediatric outpatient dialysis center.
The facility, expected to open in late 2019 on the fourth floor of the hospital’s main campus in Hartford, will be named for Robert R. Rosenheim, a Sharon resident and media brokerage owner who died in 2015 and whose foundation made the donation.
Currently, children in Connecticut who require outpatient dialysis must attend area facilities designed for adults, CCMC said. The new facility will be “designed with children in mind” and staffed by caregivers trained in pediatrics, the hospital said.
“With this support, families will no longer need to travel out of state to receive these services. We will be able to provide essential care for children who require outpatient dialysis while awaiting kidney transplants in an environment that is designed entirely for children,” CCMC CEO Jim Shmerling said in a statement.
