Childrens Hospital Renovation and Expansion
Your firm's role on the project: Consulting Architects, Pediatric Healthcare Architects, Feasibility Study, Space Programming and Planning, Schematic and Design Development Services. (Payette: Design Architect and Architect-of-Record)
Type of facility: 252,000 square feet of new construction and 50,000 square feet of renovation with a projected construction cost of $200M.
Number of beds: 72
Specialty services: Children's Hospital
Project vision/goals:
Mission/Vision
- Provide the highest levels of pediatric health care services to the children and families of Central Pennsylvania. Design to ensure that the highest levels of quality and safety are provided throughout the building. Plan for flexibility and adaptability to address evolving technology and care delivery systems anticiptated in the 21st Century Hospital.
- Design to provide a positive patient and family experience. Provide children and family members with opportunities for choice and personal preference throughout all levels of their care and treatment.
- Design for patient- and family-focused care. Provide only private rooms and address issues of patient privacy and confidentiality.
- Design for a full range of patient and family educational services and informational resources.
- Design workspaces to minimize fatigue and maximize efficiency.
- Design to provide a soothing, calming, healing environment to meet the needs of patients, families, and staff. Maximize the presence of and access to natural light and outdoor spaces.
- Pay special attention to the acoustic "sound environment" of the building.
- Provide appropriate access to a diverse range of outdoor spaces and activities.
- Provide a high level of spiritual and emotional support to patients, families, and staff, including palliative care services.
Operations / Efficiency
- Design proto-typical, repetitive and universal inpatient and outpatient rooms. Room specialization will be accomplished through equipment, furnishings and staffing patterns.
- Design circulation routes to separate and screen support services staff and equipment from visitors and patients.
- Strive for efficient adjacencies to key diagnostic, therapeutic, and support services in the main hospital for both families and staff.
- Design intuitive way finding systems to guide and direct families to and from services located in the larger medical center campus.
- Design to provide the highest appropriate levels of infection control.
- Provide appropriate levels of physical security measures, as well as creating the proper perception of security. Create one point of public access and control to patient care areas of the building.
- Provide multi-purpose and multi-use spaces to create efficiency throughout the workday.
- Design a positive staff environment that fosters inter-disciplinary interactions between clinical and support services and provides locations for appropriate respite in close proximity to patient care and other work areas.
- Incorporate Information Systems and Technology that will facilitate inter-personal communication between children, their families and the care provider team and continually monitor the condition of the child and the surrounding environment in a manner appropriate to excellent patient care.
Process
- Utilize an inclusive, participatory planning and design process.
- Identify strategies and zones for future expansion.
Additional details:
The new Penn State Children's Hospital, which is scheduled to open in 2011, will accommodate pediatric clinical services in a consolidated facility with dedicated public, clinical, and support service connections back to the larger Medical Center. Key functional components include:
- Ground level public amenities including: welcome desk, children's safety store, family resource center, a dedicated Kitchen and Cafe for the children's hospital building, Meeting Rooms and Classroom Center, multi-purpose performance space and extensive play garden and serenity space.
- A dedicated Pediatric Surgical Suite containing comprehensive pediatric pre- and post-op services, 6 pediatric OR's and a pediatric cardiac cath suite, and shelled space for future imaging services.
- 36-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) / Pediatric Intermediate Care Unit (PIMCU)
- Two 18-bed Medical Surgical / Hematology Oncology Inpatient Units with all private patient rooms
- Outpatient hematology / oncology services
- A dedicated Pediatric Imaging Suite
- Medical school support functions
- Integrated clinical research support functions
- Two levels of future vertical expansion will include a 47-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit and comprehensive Obstetrical Unit
