The Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital opened this month in Columbus, marking the first children’s hospital in the city’s history. The hospital is named after the parents of Bettye Cheves, who along with her husband, Cecil, made the lead gift that generated $22.6 million in donations for the project. Residents of the Chattahoochee Valley say the hospital will be a huge boon for the community, making it so that parents no longer have to make the drive to children’s hospitals in Birmingham or Atlanta. The 30-bed, 26-room hospital, which cost $28 million in total, will be operated by Piedmont Healthcare, and is located on the Piedmont Columbus Regional midtown campus. And the project isn’t even complete – the third and fourth floors are reserved for future pediatric specialty clinics and expanded inpatient rooms, adding further capacity and expertise to the hospital.
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