Few hospitals come with a playground. Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital’s new $72 million pediatric center that opens next month has two — one indoors and another one outside.

That’s so young patients have a place to play while they receive therapy and recover from a serious or traumatic injury or illness at Mary Free Bed.

The idea to include the playgrounds came from families whose children were treated at Mary Free Bed in the past and offered their advice on what the new pediatric rehabilitation hospital should include.

“Kids want to play. They told us they want to have fun and want to play,” Angie DeLost, vice president of Mary Free Bed Kids - Joan Secchia Children’s Rehabilitation Hospital, said as she led Crain’s on a recent tour of the new facility, located across Wealthy Street from the main hospital campus in Grand Rapids.

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