On September 6, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Breaks Ground on 521,000 Square Foot Hospital Expansion in Palo Alto

For Release: August 30, 2012

STANFORD, Calif. — For Immediate Release 8/30/12

  • Expansion features 150 new patient rooms, more healing spaces, latest medical technology and sustainable design practices
  • HP’s Meg Whitman, Apple’s Joel Podolny provide remarks on Silicon Valley innovation and support for child health
  • Media lunch/tour of hospital mockups with designers, architects and medical staff available offsite after event

Who:

Packard Children’s CEO and President, Christopher G. Dawes, will celebrate groundbreaking and Growing Together with families, donors and community leaders.

What: 

Speaker remarks, interview availabilities, ceremonial groundbreaking with:

  • Yiaway Yeh, Mayor of Palo Alto
  • Sam Feldman and Miranda Ashland, grateful patients
  • John A. Sobrato, Founder and Chairman, The Sobrato Organization
  • HP: Meg Whitman, President and CEO
  • Apple: Joel Podolny, VP of Human Resources and Dean of Apple University
  • Herb Schultz, Regional Director, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
  • Additional interview opportunities include design teams, architects, sustainability experts, hospital leadership and medical staff

When:

September 6, 2012
10:00 am - reception
10:30 am - speaker remarks
11:00 am - ceremonial groundbreaking, speaker interviews
12:00 pm - offsite lunch tour of mockups

Where:

Quarry Road and Welch Road, Palo Alto, CA

(Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion “Make-Ready” Site)

  • For the event, please park at 730 Welch clinics or in the hospital parking lot at 725 Welch, and then walk to site.
  • Directions to offsite “media lunch tour” of full-scale hospital room mockups at 1135 Hamilton Court in Menlo Park here.

Why:

To increase its capacity for care and respond to community need, the Packard Children’s Hospital Expansion is doubling the existing hospital’s size and also adding 150 patient rooms, space for advanced diagnostic and treatment therapies, new patient care units and expanded support services. The growth allows Packard Children’s to continue to offer the most advanced cures, treatments and technologies available, performed by the best teams in pediatric and obstetric medicine within a state-of-the-art facility designed to meet the unique needs of children and families. The expansion incorporates sustainable design practices including on-site water collection, native vegetation, wind turbines, EV charging stations, and comprehensive recycling programs. Learn more by visiting https://newhospital.stanfordchildrens.org/.

Authors

Robert Dicks
650-497-8364
rdicks@stanfordchildrens.org

About the Stanford University Medical Center Renewal Project

The Stanford University Medical Center Renewal Project is rebuilding and modernizing facilities that are the foundation of our community’s healthcare services. This includes rebuilding Stanford Hospital & Clinics and the Emergency Department; expanding Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital; replacing Stanford School of Medicine laboratories; and renovating Hoover Pavilion, the original Palo Alto Hospital. To find out more, visit www.SUMCRenewal.org.

About Stanford Medicine Children's Health

Stanford Medicine Children’s Health, with Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford at its center, is the Bay Area’s largest health care system exclusively dedicated to children and expectant mothers. Our network of care includes more than 65 locations across Northern California and more than 85 locations in the U.S. Western region. Along with Stanford Health Care and the Stanford School of Medicine, we are part of Stanford Medicine, an ecosystem harnessing the potential of biomedicine through collaborative research, education, and clinical care to improve health outcomes around the world. We are a nonprofit organization committed to supporting the community through meaningful outreach programs and services and providing necessary medical care to families, regardless of their ability to pay. Discover more at stanfordchildrens.org.