New Close To Home Center to Open in Grove City – Newswise

Newswise (COLUMBUS, Ohio) Nationwide Childrens Hospital announced plans today to expand its Close To Home network by opening a new center in Grove City. The new center will expand convenient access to urgent care and specialized pediatric services for families in Grove City and surrounding areas.

Planned services at the center, to be located at 1350-1370 Stringtown Road east of Interstate 71, include urgent care, lab services, imaging and EKG testing, and clinical therapies. The Grove City Close To Home Center is anticipated to open in 2026.

Central Ohio continues to grow, and Nationwide Children's wants to provide the best access to pediatric care for the entire region, said Tim Robinson, chief executive officer of Nationwide Childrens Hospital. Our new Close To Home Center in Grove City will help more children receive the care they need, when they need it.

Close To Home centers offer community-based diagnostic and therapeutic services for newborns, children and young adults, with services varying by location. Nationwide Childrens currently operates 23 Close To Home centers in central Ohio, with plans to open locations in Zanesville and Athens this year.

We and our children are truly blessed to welcome a Nationwide Childrens Hospital Close To Home center with urgent care to our community, said Grove City Mayor Richard L. Ike Stage. For 130 years, Childrens has provided the highest level of care for every child in need, now caring for children in 45 countries across the globe.

About Nationwide Childrens Hospital

Named to the Top 10 Honor Roll on U.S. News & World Reports 2023-24 list of Best Childrens Hospitals, Nationwide Childrens Hospital is one of Americas largest not-for-profit free-standing pediatric health care systems providing unique expertise in pediatric population health, behavioral health, genomics and health equity as the next frontiers in pediatric medicine, leading to best outcomes for the health of the whole child. Integrated clinical and research programs, as well as prioritizing quality and safety, are part of what allows Nationwide Childrens to advance its unique model of care. Nationwide Childrens has a staff of more than 14,000 that provides state-of-the-art wellness, preventive and rehabilitative care and diagnostic treatment during more than 1.7 million patient visits annually. As home to the Department of Pediatrics of The Ohio State University College of Medicine, Nationwide Childrens physicians train the next generation of pediatricians and pediatric specialists. The Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Childrens Hospital is one of the Top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded free-standing pediatric research facilities. More information is available at NationwideChildrens.org.

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