USA Children's & Women's Patients Move into New Pediatric Tower

Nurses and physicians move a patient from the old Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Jan. 8, 2014, at USA Children's & Women's Hospital. The pediatric patients were moved to the new Pediatric Tower at the hospital.

Registered Nurse Taronya Jackson pulls La'Veydrian Coleman, 22 months, along the corridor connecting the old and new towers as he is moved to his new room Jan. 8, 2014. The pediatric patients were moved to the new Pediatric Tower at USA Children's & Women's Hospital.

Patients at the University of South Alabama Children's & Women's Hospital moved into a new, 195,000-square-foot pediatric tower on Wednesday, Jan. 8.

The $72.6 million expansion, funded by the USA Health System and the USA Foundation and private gifts, features more space for the hospital's neonatal and pediatric intensive care units, additional operating rooms, and larger patient rooms to better accommodate visitors and families. To view the full story and photo gallery featured on al.com, click here.

For more local news coverage of the move, click the following links:
Local 15
FOX 10


Mandy Sullivan kisses her daughter Emmerson Snider in her room in the new Pediatric Tower at USA Children's & Women's Hospital Jan. 8, 2014.