BATON ROUGE- Our Lady of the Lake Children's Hospital will celebrate the completion of steel on its new freestanding facility with a ceremony and a hoisting of specially signed beams today.

The beams were signed in person and virtually by more than a thousand individuals including current and former patients, team members from Our Lady of the Lake and across Franciscan Missionaries of Our Lady Health System, donors, physicians and members of the community.

The ceremony will be today at 1:30 p.m. at the new facility construction site off Essen Lane.

The facility will be able to treat more than 100 thousand patients per year from throughout Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Hospital officials are hoping the construction will be complete by next year.

Construction crews are getting ready to place the last steel beam on the free standing children’s hospital. Its 50% complete. @WBRZ pic.twitter.com/UT1r3VhgxY

— Chris Nakamoto WBRZ (@ChrisNakamoto) November 13, 2017

Final beam being lowered on new Children’s Hospital. @WBRZ @TheLakeHealth pic.twitter.com/8AVWHnuk8C

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— Chris Nakamoto WBRZ (@ChrisNakamoto) November 13, 2017