Hospital Site Plan & Design Team

Orlando, Florida
Monday, June 30, 2008 @ 12:00 AM EDT

Today, we are releasing the Nemours Children’s Hospital (NCH) master site plan for our health care campus 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.

If you are interested in viewing the Nemours Children’s Hospital master site plan, please click here.

Additionally, we have formed a team to design the hospital and to create the Nemours model of care. The design team includes a group of more than 150 internal and external health care business experts, associates, clinicians, architects and individuals that are collaborating to provide critical insight into pediatric care delivery for the new health system. This dynamic team of experts will lead Nemours in creating a top-tier enterprise committed to service and quality.

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, we have engaged IDEO, a nationally renowned innovation and design firm, to work with the facility design team. IDEO will focus on patient satisfaction, specifically related to the entry and exit experience of patients and families.

As you may recall, Nemours recently chose Skanska USA Building Inc. to oversee the construction management 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 facility so it 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. 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 months reviewing best practices for patient care, as well as nursing practices and recruitment.

The entire Nemours enterprise is being engaged at some level in the building and design process. For example, many clinicians and associates at the Nemours system in the Delaware Valley, anchored by the Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children (AIDHC), are leveraging their daily experience to identify best practices and pilot innovation and technology that can then be replicated at NCH.

Nemours will break ground on our integrated pediatric health system in central Florida in 2009. This will allow enough time for us to comfortably fulfill our Certificate of Need (CON) requirements to the state. We plan to open our doors to children and families in 2012.

Thank you for your continued support as we work to bring the dream of a top-tier integrated pediatric health care system to reality.

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