Expansion coming for Phoenix Children’s Hospital in West Valley

Phoenix Children’s Hospital’s Arrowhead Campus in Glendale opened in 2024, but it’s now expanding with an additional 48 beds.

The $195 million facility includes an emergency room with 30 treatment rooms, six operating rooms, a laboratory and imaging services. It will treat up to 72,000 patients annually and has also created 400 jobs.

Noah White, Manager of Nursing Services at Phoenix Children’s Arrowhead Campus, joined “Arizona Horizon” to discuss the expansion.

“We want to bring care to the people of Glendale, and for all of Phoenix Children’s, we want to operate as a system. And so our biggest goal is really to bring care to where families need it, where kids need it,” White said.

The new Arrowhead expansion provides resources for all levels and severities of care.

“If your child needs extra care, they come to our hospital, they come through the ED and they need to be admitted. They now have, there’s 24 more additional rooms,” White said.

White gave some insight into the layout of the Arrowhead Campus and what happens on each floor.

“On Aug. 7, we opened up with three floors. That was our emergency department on our first floor. Our second floor has our surgical area, so we have a pre-op area, obviously the OR, the operating rooms, and then a recovery area. And then the third floor is my unit, which is the in-patient unit again with 48 beds that we can provide kind of comprehensive care to these kids,” White said.

White also spotlighted areas of pediatric care that need the most attention.

“I think ultimately access to care. I think with recency, with COVID and kind of current things going around in the world, mental health is a big thing. And so those are definitely forefronts for what’s needed for pediatric care right now,” White said.