Seattle Children’s in 2013

Seattle Children’s today released a rendering showing what the hospital campus may look like in 2013 after completion of the first phase of the medical center’s planned four-phase expansion, which will expand the hospital’s capacity from 250 to 600 beds over the next 20 years.

Image credit: Architectural Illustration

The first phase will add 60 to 80 inpatient beds.

The first phase of the expansion will also includes: space for a kitchen, an improved emergency department and, possibly, a new helicopter-landing pad.

The new patient rooms will be designed as eight-room “neighborhoods”, the hospital said, with transparent slider doors that provide visibility for families and their care team – ensuring better communication and care coordination.”

Features include:

• sleeper sofas,
• privacy curtains,
• bathrooms with showers, and
• care team “porches” – alcoves outside patient rooms that provide closer access for the care team. Supplies on carts can be wheeled into cupboards at each porch, for easy access.

Image credit: ZGF Architects

To learn more:

• Download images/renderings: https://seattlechildrens.sharefile.com/?cmd=d&id=7049735c03e249d8
• Learn more about Seattle Children’s expansion plans: http://masterplan.seattlechildrens.org/mimp_docs.aspx

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