June 23, 2011 07:36 PM?Eastern Daylight Time?
Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion Will Be Nation?s Most Technologically Advanced Children?s Hospital and Serve Generations of Families
LOS ANGELES?(BUSINESS WIRE)?More than 200 community leaders and supporters celebrated the historic dedication of the nation?s most technologically advanced children?s hospital this day by slicing the ribbon on the new patient care building at Children?s Hospital Los Angeles. Since its humble beginnings in a small house in Chinatown 110 years ago, the hospital has evolved into a 317-bed, seven story, state-of-the-art structure that will serve generations of kids in need of highly specialized care for decades to come.
?Our team provides outstanding medical care, hope and compassion to our young patients and their families to give them the ideal chance at winning the many battles they face against illness, injury and disease.?
?This is an astonishing day for our community that has been more than a decade in the making,? stated Richard D. Cordova, FACHE, President and CEO, Children?s Hospital Los Angeles. ?As a community we have designed and constructed the perfect building which is truly a work of art and certainly a precious jewel for the City of Los Angeles.?
The $636 million hospital building will usher in a new era of pediatric and adolescent health care not only for Angelenos but for the many patients who come from around the world to seek care at Children?s Hospital Los Angeles. The new 460,000-square-foot structure is a model family-centered care environment with every aspect of the new building designed with families in mind and almost all patient rooms being private. The remarkable building was recently named the Marion and John E. Anderson Pavilion in honor of the hospital philanthropists who provided the transformative $50 million gift to the project. Hospital staff is scheduled to move more than 200 inpatients into the new building on Sunday, July 17.
?What?s more important than the steel, bricks and mortar is what occurs inside with the work of our wonderful doctors, nurses and clinicians,? stated Cordova. ?Our team provides outstanding medical care, hope and compassion to our young patients and their families to give them the ideal chance at winning the many battles they face against illness, injury and disease.?
Civic leaders and hospital administrators identified the need for the new hospital building more than a decade ago. With the growth of Los Angeles and patients travelling from throughout the world to seek care from the expert doctors at Children?s Hospital Los Angeles, demand for services exceeded the current hospital capacity. The new Anderson Pavilion grants for increased access, expanded patient care services and the capability to recruit new doctors in key specialties.
When fund raising efforts were launched almost 10 years ago, the original goal was to raise $350 million. Along the way, skyrocketing materials costs and a difficult economy forced the hospital?s Board of Trustees to increase the goal to $500 million in 2006 and again to $750 million in 2008. Despite these and other obstacles, hospital leadership as well as donors throughout the region rose to the challenge.
The dedication and support of Southern California residents eventually led to more than $1 billion being raised for the new building and other critical programs and research, which is the largest-ever single fund-raising campaign in the nation by a freestanding, independent children?s hospital. Known as Living Proof: the Campaign for Children?s Hospital Los Angeles, an unprecedented 737,743 individual gifts were received.
The renowned architectural firm of Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects designed the award-winning building, while Rudolph & Sletten, Inc., constructed the facility. Key elements of the new pavilion include:
It is licensed for 317 beds, 85 percent of which are private rooms To meet growing demand, more than one-third of beds will be intensive care beds which is a 63 percent increase over current hospital capacity The building?s design is based on the varied California landscape with each floor featuring a different region of the say ? from the desert to the ocean to a child?s own backyard Every aspect of the building has been designed with families in mind with each patient room featuring a daybed to grant parents or caregivers to stay at the patient bedside Patients, families and staff will dine in style at the HBO Caf?, a Hollywood-themed dining space featuring massive windows, indoor skylights and outdoor seating Patients and visiting kids will enjoy the Jane Vruwink Palmer Healing and Play Garden where kids of all capabilities can play side by side
Children?s Hospital Los Angeles opened in 1901 amid humble beginnings in a small house on Castellar Street in what is now Chinatown. The hospital?s lone doctor made house calls on horseback and its ?surgery suite? was formerly the house?s pantry. It was the first children?s hospital in the region and admitted 14 patients during its inaugural year.
Today, Children?s Hospital Los Angeles is marking its 110th anniversary of serving the community as one of the nation?s top-ranked children?s hospitals. The hospital cares for more than 10,000 inpatients, 300,000 out-patient visits and more than 65,000 patients in the Emergency Department annually. It has been named the ideal children?s hospital in California and among the ideal in the nation for clinical excellence with its selection to the prestigious US News & World Report Honor Roll for 2011-12. Children?s Hospital is also one of America?s premier teaching hospitals, affiliated with the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California since 1932. The Saban Research Institute of Children?s Hospital Los Angeles is known internationally as one of the largest and most productive pediatric research facilities in the United States.
As the hospital began celebrating its 110th anniversary this year, Children?s Hospital Los Angeles launched a major re-branding initiative that includes a new look, new message and the missing apostrophe in ?Childrens,? which was left out due a faulty typewriter key in 1901. The institution ? which is the first children?s hospital in Los Angeles ? recently unveiled a new logo featuring a symbolic butterfly to represent the incredible transformations that take place every day within its walls, as well as a new tagline that drives to the heartbeat of its mission: ?We Treat Kids Better.? The hospital also initiated a city-wide ad campaign ? including billboards, print, radio, bus wraps and other multimedia ? to educate the community on its expanded services when the new hospital pavilion opens in July.
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