Project Horizon Brody Central City Hospital pediatric wing

Project Horizon at Brody Central City Hospitals

26 June 2026

Project Horizon pediatric wing at Brody Central City Hospital

photos courtesy of Sunflower Network

In Brody, western Ukraine, a new pediatric hospital began seeing patients on June 1. The facility, known as Project Horizon, is the first newly built hospital to open in Ukraine since Russia’s 2022 invasion and is serving more than 120,000 children and families in Brody and the surrounding communities.

The $10 million hospital was built by Sunflower Network, a NYC-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit led by brothers Dean and Dustin Ross. First announced at the Clinton Global Initiative in 2023, Project Horizon was delivered through an unprecedented coalition of Ukrainian leaders and global partners, including Northwell Health, Hines, CannonDesign, Pelli Clarke & Partners, and others.

Sunflower Network began in the direct wake of the Russian invasion, when Dustin Ross jumped into action and traveled from New York City to Ukraine to deliver a bag of tourniquets to the front lines. With Dean Ross’ support, that first delivery grew into Sunflower Network and a supply chain that delivered more than $5 million in aid to support the Ukrainian war effort. But as the war continued, the scale of the challenge changed. Emergency relief remained essential, but communities also needed durable systems: hospitals, schools, housing, and civic infrastructure that could help families rebuild their lives even as the crisis continued.

That realization led to Project Horizon, a permanent pediatric hospital in a region where wartime displacement has increased pressure on local healthcare systems. The goal was not only to expand access to healthcare in Ukraine, but also to test whether critical infrastructure could be delivered through an innovative public-private partnership utilizing prefabricated modular construction in an active war zone: a model that had never been proven before.

Long viewed as a time- and cost-effective way to build that could theoretically be applied in a post-crisis setting, Sunflower Network utilized prefabricated modular construction to circumvent wartime labor shortages, security challenges, and supply chain disruptions to build a fully functioning hospital in only three years. Sunflower Network and modular partner Climatic employed a dual-track method: modular components were built in Poland and shipped across the border to Ukraine for assembly, while on-site development in Brody, including a basement bomb shelter, advanced in tandem.

Project Horizon offers a critical proof point for how prefabricated modular construction can move beyond temporary emergency response and into durable public infrastructure, and the project’s impact in Ukraine is immediate.

Located on the Brody Central City Hospital campus, the new pediatric wing is municipally owned and operated by the hospital’s existing team of over 300 medical professionals. The facility moves children’s services into a purpose-built space with upgraded equipment, improved treatment areas, and deep clinical readiness supported by Northwell Health.

The hospital was made possible by an unusually broad public-private partnership. Sunflower Network led the effort and used its nonprofit structure to mobilize philanthropic capital, pro bono expertise, in-kind support, and local public-sector leadership. Northwell Health brought clinical and operational expertise; Hines contributed real estate and development experience; CannonDesign and Pelli Clarke & Partners supported design; Climatic served as the modular construction partner; and Ukrainian hospital and municipal leaders grounded the project in local need.

With Project Horizon completed, Sunflower Network is exploring opportunities to scale the newly proven model to support reconstruction in the wake of conflict, disaster, and displacement. The approach could apply elsewhere in Ukraine as communities face years of rebuilding, and in other crisis-affected regions where conventional infrastructure development is too slow, too expensive, or too vulnerable to disruption.

The project’s innovative approach is critical during moments of desperate need, but the model can be applied in to meet other important goals. In the United States, rural communities continue to face hospital closures, healthcare deserts, and aging infrastructure. While the conditions are different, the underlying challenge is similar: how to deliver critical healthcare infrastructure faster, more affordably, and in ways that are built to last.

At its core, Sunflower Network is asking a practical question with global implications: when disaster makes essential infrastructure more urgent, how can it be built fast enough to meet the need and strong enough to serve communities for generations?

In Brody, the answer takes the form of Project Horizon.

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