2. The Barney Children’s Medical Center opened in February of 1967 adjacent to the Barney Convalescent Hospital, which was used to care for polio victims.
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3. In 1970, the name was changed to Dayton Children’s Medical Center, which evolved into a private, not-for-profit hospital with 155 beds.
4. The Chapel Street address of the medical center became One Children’s Plaza in 1979.
5. Dayton Children’s has expanded beyond Dayton with multiple outpatient centers, including in Beavercreek, Kettering, Springboro, Sugarcreek, Vandalia and Warren County.
6. Dayton Children’s made its latest name change in 2013, becoming Dayton Children’s Hospital.
7. Dayton Children’s opened a 260,000 square-foot, eight-story patient tower expansion on its Dayton campus in 2017.
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