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Designed for families, with families
How do you build the best children’s hospital? You start by asking patient families what they want it to include.
Designing education and technology at the new hospital
Innovative technology within the new hospital provides a remarkable modernization in our ability to care and cure.
A refuge for serenity and reflection
Our new Sanctuary is meant to be used by all ages and faith traditions, providing a quiet refuge for prayer, meditation, or worship, or simply a place to step away.
Stanford’s d.school students integrate artwork into expanding children’s hospital
Graduate students from the Institute of Design at Stanford joined forces with the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital expansion team to explore ways to integrate artwork for the expanding pediatric and obstetric hospital campus.
Designing the future Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Students at Stanford’s d.school collaborate with neonatologist William Rhine, MD, to look at new elements of design in the NICU environment.
Here’s to a Healthier Hospital
Packard Children’s leadership efforts to promote a healthy environment permeate the entire hospital and are a driving force behind the expansion design.
A Space Designed for Quiet and Reflection
Set within the hustle and bustle of a busy pediatric hospital, a space devoted to serenity and reflection is being planned for the new Packard Children’s expansion.
Parents’ Perspective Drives Hospital Design
Parents took part in a series of real-life scenarios in mock-up rooms designed as test areas for Packard Children’s new facilities.
Design Collaboration Builds New Bridges
“The breakthrough comes when you’re thinking of something that hasn’t been done yet,” says Edwards.
Designing a Healthier Hospital
Good design is not just about appearances, especially when it comes to planning a new hospital.
A Good First Impression
A hospital’s design can affect a visitor’s social, psychological, and environmental impressions within just a few minutes, just as entering a hotel lobby can create a sense of the overall experience.
Patient Safety, by Design
Architecture and design have a direct impact on patient safety and can even speed up how quickly a child can return home.
Test First, Build Later: Group Simulations Help Refine Design
In planning the layouts of the new patient rooms and operating suites, life-size mockups were constructed off-site and assessed by representatives of everyone who would use them.
The Next Generation of Storytelling
At Packard Children’s, story-time will take on a whole new perspective in the Story Corner planned for the hospital expansion.
Places to Play
Packard Children’s expansion design builds in a sense of fun and discovery to our future main lobby.
Rooms with a View
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Room to Visit, Room to Heal
Packard Children’s is adding 146 new private rooms—so that families have more privacy and the space to be together during treatment and recovery.
Flexible Design for Future Innovations
How can you design, build and evaluate a hospital when you can’t predict what the future of medical technology may bring?
Growing for Tomorrow
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital is embarking on a transformative expansion project. Growth will allow Packard to continue to offer the most advanced cures, treatments, and technologies available, performed by the best minds in pediatric and obstetric medicine, within a state-of-the-art facility designed to meet the special needs of children and families.
Transforming Hospital Design
Several aspects of the Packard expansion project have been improved by the first-hand participation of physicians, nurses, multidisciplinary care teams, and parents. Their input and feedback has led to a number of important changes—before construction even begins.
How Does the Garden Grow?
For the children and expectant mothers who come to Packard Children’s, the new gardens will be a retreat where they can savor the sights, smells, and sounds of nature. The hospital is adding more than three acres of greenery, connecting the new facility to the existing one while providing a backdrop of calmness and serenity.