COLUMBUS, Ga. ( WRBL ) — This afternoon the Piedmont Columbus Regional community held a celebration Wednesday to mark a milestone in healthcare in this region.
The ribbon was cut on the city’s first standalone children’s hospital. The Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital is a 26-room, 30-bed facility in the old Doctors Hospital on the Midtown campus.
For the better part of 10 years, the Doctors Hospital has sat most vacant on the Piedmont Columbus Regional campus.
The Bill and Olivia Amos Children’s Hospital puts an exclamation point where there had long been a question mark on the Piedmont Columbus Regional Midtown campus.
“Doctors Hospital was closed down in 2014, 2015,” Piedmont Columbus Regional CEO Scott Hill said. “There was a lot of questions. What are you going to do with Doctors Hospital? What are you going to do with Doctors Hospital? I probably got that question asked 500 to 1,000 times. I’m super proud to say that we’re breathing new life into what has been known as the old Doctors Hospital. And I’m glad I won’t have to answer that question again.”