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Nationwide Children's Hospital buys East Main street block for $7.6 million. Posted: Aug 31, 2026 / 12:00 PM EDT Updated: Aug 30, 2026 / 07:48 PM EDT COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) - A long-undeveloped parcel on East Main Street that has drawn redevelopment interest over the years is now part of Nationwide Children's Hospital's growing footprint near downtown Columbus. Nationwide Children's purchased the entire 3.62-acre block at 818 E. Main St. for $7.6 million on Aug. 7, according to Franklin County property records. The parcel sits on the south side of East Main Street between South 17th and South 18th streets and extends south to East Mound Street. The property is adjacent to Nationwide Children's Near East Office, a four-story office building and parking garage at 431 S. 18th St. that was completed in 2018. Turner Construction Company previously leased the East Main Street property for parking, a hospital spokesperson said. Nationwide Children's has not announced a specific development for the site. "Acquiring the property allows Nationwide Children's to plan thoughtfully for both the short-term and long-term future of a site that is now adjacent to our growing campus," the spokesperson said. The purchase adds to the hospital's holdings north of Interstate 70 while Nationwide Children's undertakes the largest construction investment in its history on its main campus south of the freeway. See a previous report from NBC4 in the video player above. Nationwide Children's also owns a roughly one-third-acre parcel immediately west of the site, across South 17th Street, that it purchased in 2012, according to property records. Property records show the East Main Street parcel last sold for $575,000 to Smith Tandy Group in December 2012. The property was once owned by the Douglas Lula Foundation, associated with Columbus native and former world heavyweight boxing champion James "Buster" Douglas. The hospital already operates outpatient care locations east and west of the newly acquired property along East Main Street. Farther south, Nationwide Children's is building a 14-story acute-care tower at its main campus at 700 Children's Drive. The $1.27 billion project is expected to be completed in 2028 and add more than 430 beds. The tower is being constructed as a companion to the hospital's existing inpatient tower and will house emergency and critical care services, oncology, an expanded surgical area and a three-floor neonatal intensive care unit. Nationwide Children's has said the project represents the largest investment in the hospital's history as its campus continues to expand along the Interstate 70 corridor.

New Chief Teaching Officer joins Children's and Emory. Tuesday, August 25th, 2026 Rebecca Wallihan, MD, joins Children's Healthcare of Atlanta as the new Chief Teaching Officer and joins Emory University School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, as Vice Chair of Education. In this role, she will provide strategic, enterprise-level leadership across Children's and the Emory Department of Pediatrics to optimize the quality, reputation, and impact of graduate medical education (GME) and undergraduate medical education (UME) for trainees from partnering institutions. She will support the identification and development of clinical training opportunities for medical students, residents, and fellows, strengthening alignment across the continuum of training and advancing our shared priorities in educational excellence, innovation, and workforce development. As an experienced leader with more than a decade of graduate medical education leadership experience, she will strengthen alignment across the continuum of training and advance educational excellence, innovation and workforce development. I am delighted Dr. Wallihan will join Children's in this leadership role as we continue striving to train top physician talent within our network of hospitals and specialty care clinics," said Jared Muenzer, MD, Chief Physician Executive, Children's. "We are dedicated to maintaining a strategic and comprehensive physician training and education program for residents and fellows across our System and look forward to the leadership Dr. Wallihan will bring to continue this endeavor, ultimately advancing better care for our kids. Prior to joining Children's, Dr. Wallihan was with Nationwide Children's Hospital and The Ohio State University College of Medicine where she served as the Pediatric Residency Program Director, Vice Chair of Education for Pediatrics and Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Infectious Diseases. In addition to her physician education roles at Children's and Emory, Dr. Wallihan will apply her clinical expertise by working in infectious diseases, focusing on complex infections and antimicrobial stewardship. Recently selected as an Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) fellow, Dr. Wallihan is an active member of several national-level professional organizations, including the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD), Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society and the American Board of Pediatrics. She has a strong record of scholarly work, including more than 25 peer reviewed publications, contributions to leading textbooks and national presentations at APPD and Pediatric Academic Societies (PAS) meetings. After earning her medical degree from the Indiana University School of Medicine in 2005, Dr. Wallihan completed a residency and fellowship at Nationwide Children's Hospital.

HHS accuses Nationwide Children's, others, of insurance fraud over transgender care. Columbus Dispatch Aug. 19, 2026, 6:04 a.m. ET The federal government is accusing children's hospitals and health care providers, including several in Ohio, of millions of dollars in insurance fraud by pushing transgender youth care services on patients to line their own pockets. However, industry experts have refuted such accusations, pushing back on the idea that gender-affirming care is a "cash cow" for hospitals and that patients and families are being cajoled into receiving such care.