Citizen Staff Writer
Our Opinion
As University Medical Center works to build a children’s hospital, it has some unusual consultants on the project.
Children who have spent substantial time being treated at UMC have been recruited to give suggestions for the Diamond Children’s Medical Center.
The center will be completed in the spring of 2010. Fundraising was started with a $15 million gift from Joan and Donald Diamond.
While professionals are needed to get the building right, the real experts are the children who are patients at the center.
One such expert is 11-year-old Robert King, who has spent more than half his life at UMC and offered suggestions on the new bathrooms.
Diamond Children’s Medical Center is a needed addition to the local health care scene. The young consultants are helping to make it even better.