Washington
The National Center for Children's Rehabilitation, created in partnership by the Children's National Medical Center and the National Rehabilitation Hospital (NRH), is scheduled to open July 1 in Washington. The top floor of NRH's three-story northwest D.C. facility will be renovated to create 15,000- to 25,000-sf of space housing an initial 10 beds to care for patients age 12 to 18. If the certificate of need to provide care to children under 12, specifically from age 6 and up, is approved by the city, the number of beds will increase. The center will cost approximately $702,000 for renovation and $3-million for first-year operations, and will house 15 to 20 specialists.
