We have all eagerly watched the construction of
Children’s Hospital’s colorful new campus rising above
Lawrenceville at the corner of 45th St. and Penn Ave.
On April 16 at 11 a.m., after seven years of planning and construction, the new campus will celebrate its completion with a ceremonial ribbon-cutting. Last weekend, more than 6,000 people turned out for the hospital’s open house last weekend to enjoy unprecedented access to the hospital. The hospital officially opens May 2.
“The campus is built from the ground up to be paperless. It has the technology backbone to support all of the advances we're bringing,” says Dr. Steven Docimo, with
UPMC. “It’s a departure for us from the physical plant where we've been working, which has been too small for years. Technically we've been very advanced, but we’ve had to work around our infrastructure.”
With nine floors dedicated to inpatient and outpatient care, the 296-bed facility features private rooms with overnight accommodations for parents, 13 operating suites and a 300,000-square-foot research facility. The hospital’s 20,000-square-foot family resource and activity center is among the largest of its kind on the planet.
Designed by
Astorino, The $625 million facility houses an atrium, childcare and fitness centers, a 75,000-square-foot administration building, and three parking garages. The hospital will start seeing outpatients April 20. A highly choreographed move of 150 inpatients will occur May 2.
Designed as a green campus with two LEED-certified buildings, the environmentally-friendly hospital features a healing garden, green education program for staff, patients and visitors, and highly efficient systems and technologies.
“Our electronic health records are so advanced. People want to look at our new processes and are very interested in the new hospital and its design,” adds Docimo, who says the new facility is already helping to attract top-notch fellowship candidates and researchers.
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Jennifer BaronSource: Dr. Steven Docimo, vice president of medical affairs, and
Marc Lukasiak,
manager, media relations,
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC