Nemours Unveils Children’s Hospital Master Site Plan and Expert Design Team
Orlando, Florida
Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 12:00 PM EDT
Nemours, one of the nation’s leading children’s health systems, today unveiled the Nemours Children’s Hospital (NCH) master site plan for its health care campus that will be located in the Lake Nona medical city. After months of collaboration and input on how to best serve children’s needs in central Florida, Nemours, along with several other partners, has established the basic footprint for what will be an innovative and integrated destination for pediatric health care.
Nemours also announced today that it has formed a team to design the hospital and guide the remaining process to create the Nemours model of care. The design team includes a group of more than 150 internal and external health care business experts, clinicians, architects and individuals that are collaborating to provide critical insight into pediatric care delivery for the new health system.
Jeffrey E. Green, Nemours vice president and chief administrative officer - Florida, serves as the design team’s project executive. He is responsible for overseeing and providing strategic direction for Nemours Children’s Hospital. Green said, “We have selected a dynamic team of experts that will lead us in designing and building a top-tier enterprise committed to service and quality. Together, we have the honor and challenge of creating an integrated pediatric health care system for the future.”
In keeping with Nemours’ commitment to excellence, the primary facility design team is a partnership of two of the most highly recognized firms in health care architecture and pediatric design. Perkins+Will, located in Boston, has worked with 85 of the top 100 academic medical centers and universities, and completed projects for more than 500 medical institutions in the United States as well as overseas. This firm is highly regarded as a global leader in the industry. The co-designers from Atlanta -- Stanley Beaman & Sears, specialize in award-winning interiors and architectural facilities for children. The company has a reputation for designing children’s hospitals and outpatient centers that are both memorable and unique. Additionally, Nemours has engaged IDEO, a nationally renowned innovation and design firm to work with the facility design team. IDEO will focus on patient satisfaction, specifically on the entry and exit experience of patients and families.
Nemours recently chose Skanska USA Building Inc. as the construction manager that will oversee the construction process of the project. This firm has tremendous international and national experience building truly innovative structures, and the central Florida team brings strong health care facility experience to the project. Not only will the hospital be patient and family-friendly, it will incorporate high performance, environmentally friendly and sustainable design concepts into the hospital so that the facility can achieve the US Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED®) certification. Skanska oversaw construction on the Parrish Healthcare Center in Port St. John in 2004, which became the first outpatient facility to be awarded LEED® Silver green building certification in Florida.
A major focus of the design process is centered on the models of care that NCH will provide. Judy Wall, MD, medical director for Nemours Children’s Clinic in Orlando and team lead on patient care, said, “We are carefully examining the way we provide care and how others in the industry are using best practices. Together with our partners, we are creating a system of care that focuses on the whole child and systematically follows the patients and families through a continuum of both outpatient and inpatient care.” In order to accomplish this massive undertaking, Nemours has retained the services of multiple patient care experts including Bowen & Briggs. This group has spent the last several months reviewing best practices for patient care as well as nursing practices and recruitment.
Nemours will break ground on its integrated pediatric health system in 2009, allowing enough time for the organization to comfortably fulfill its Certificate of Need (CON) requirements to the state. The health system plans to open its doors to children and families in 2012.
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About Nemours
Nemours, one of the nation’s largest pediatric health systems, is dedicated to achieving higher standards in children’s health. Nemours offers an integrated spectrum of clinical treatment coupled with research, advocacy, and educational health and prevention services extending to all families in the communities it serves. Starting with Alfred I. duPont’s bequest over seventy years ago, Nemours has grown into a multi-dimensional organization offering personalized clinical and preventive care focused on children.
Nemours owns and operates the Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children in Wilmington, Delaware and major children’s specialty clinics in Delaware (Wilmington), Florida (Jacksonville, Orlando and Pensacola), Pennsylvania (Philadelphia and Bryn Mawr) and New Jersey (Atlantic City and Voorhees). Having recently received preliminary approval from the State of Florida, Nemours will establish a new full-service children’s hospital as part of an integrated pediatric health campus in Orlando. KidsHealth.org, the world’s most visited pediatric health care Web site for parents, kids and teens, is a project of Nemours.
Nemours employs over 4,400 individuals, including 430 pediatric physicians, specialists and surgeons who cared for approximately a quarter of a million children in 2007. The organization’s goal is to align with parents, physicians, community leaders, children’s advocates and elected officials to ensure optimal wellness for every child. Additional information about Nemours can be found at www.nemours.org.
