Dec
10
Children’s Hospital Expansion Set to Open in Palo Alto
ByStanford Children’s Health’s pediatric hospital campus will more than double its size by adding nearly 150 beds in its latest sustainably designed building.
Stanford Children’s Health has opened the new main building of the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford in Palo Alto, Calif., more than doubling the hospital in size. The 521,000-square-foot structure will add 149 beds to the hospital’s campus, greatly expanding the capacity of the facility.
Located at 725 Welch Road, the new building will be directly connected with the existing hospital via a series of bridge corridors. A new advanced imaging center will open inside the property in addition to the patient care units. Surgical suites and some lab areas are still undergoing construction work, with an anticipated opening in mid-2018. After the opening, renovation work is slated to begin to update the hospital’s older west building…
