Nemours announces $130 million in renovations, expansions in Delaware
The Delaware-based children's health system plans to expand its maternal-fetal health services.
Nemours Children’s Health is investing $130 million in 2025 to expand services for maternal and fetal health, cancer and cardiology in Delaware.
The plans represent Nemours’ largest single-year capital investment in the state in the health system’s history, officials announced this month.
A centerpiece of the expansion plan is a “nationally leading, state-of-the-art” maternal and fetal health program, equipped with specialized surgical suites and advanced care for complex cases, at its flagship Wilmington hospital.
The health system will also add 14 patient rooms to its level IV neonatal intensive care unit — the only in Delaware — for a total of 45 beds.
“It is critical that we provide these services to Delawareans who would otherwise need to leave our state to receive this level of care,” said Kate Deans, Nemours’ surgeon-in-chief.
The maternal and fetal health program will build on Nemours’ existing advanced delivery program. The Delaware hospital will add four labor and delivery suites, eight patient rooms for before and after birth, and three operating rooms for maternal and fetal surgery.
Nemours expects to break ground on the maternal and fetal health center in 2025, but did not say when it would open.
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Nemours also plans to open a new Lisa Dean Moseley Foundation Institute for Cancer and Blood Disorders in 2025. The 24,000-square-foot facility will include 24 patient beds, an outpatient day hospital and infusion center, and resources for clinical trials in cancer sickle cell disease and other blood disorders.
The investment will also support ongoing renovation at the historic Alfred I. duPont Institute, an administrative building on the hospital’s Wilmington campus that served as the original Nemours children’s orthopedic hospital when it opened in 1940.
The renovation, expected to open in 2026, will include a simulation center where medical providers can practice new skills and hone their technique.
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