The ceremonial shovels came out Monday at the University of Rochester Medical Center. URMC will soon have a new clinical home for patients with autism.
The William and Mildred Levine Autism Clinic and outpatient imaging will share a new home in a 3-story building slated to be completed in 2017.
Susan Hyman, Chief of Neurodevelopmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Golisano Children’s Hospital, says treatment for children with autism needs to be integrated, not isolated, from other disciplines.
“That what we both need is we need universal design, we need a space where people with complex health issues, with developmental disabilities will feel comfortable, so to give easy access to the community and easy access to the region if we see patients with autism that come from all over Western New York,” says Hyman.
She says the building will itself be built to the needs of her patients.
“What this is a novel physical space that’s conducive to the needs of children with autism and other developmental disabilities for treatment,” says Hyman.
The 90-thousand square foot, 28-million dollar building will be completed in 2017.