No parent ever wants to have to take his or her child to an emergency department or to a stay in a hospital. When the need arises, having to drive far from home can make a difficult experience even worse. With that in mind, two health care institutions with long histories of service to the region are teaming up to expand access to pediatric care in a space designed just for children.

More than 2.5 million people in the United States alone experience a traumatic brain injury, or TBI, each year. Some of these people are plagued by a seemingly unrelated cascade of health issues for years after their head injury, including fatigue, depression, anxiety, memory issues, and sleep disturbances.