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The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia on Tuesday had a grand opening for its 25,000-square-foot Specialty Care Center on the campus of the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. CHOP relocated the center from Alexander Road in Princeton.CHOP said the Plainsboro facility is one of 50 CHOP Care Network locations in southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

All of the existing specialties and services have relocated from Princeton to Plainsboro, which also has new services, including physical therapy, occupational therapy and rehab gyms, speech therapy, auditory brainstem response testing and diagnostic X-ray services.

CHOP said the Plainsboro location can be expanded to 100,000 square feet to allow for future program growth.

“We are excited to open this new, state-of-the-art specialty care center on the Princeton at Plainsboro campus,” said Madeline Bell, CHOP president and chief operating officer. “This facility will allow us to better serve the needs of the local community and ensure families have access to the highest level of specialty pediatric care close to home.”

Since July 2009, CHOP has provided care for newborns, children and adolescents at the University Medical Center of Princeton at Plainsboro. CHOP physicians are on site 24/7, including a board-certified neonatologist to attend high-risk deliveries and provide care to newborns, and pediatric hospitalists who are available to consult on pediatric cases in the Emergency Center and care for patients in the inpatient pediatric unit.

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