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The entire complex is being
planned around the concept of
patient and family centered care.
Some features include:
- 12 floors and 610,000
- square feet of space.
- 400-car patient parking
- garage, a new entry boulevard and a
- site for future expansion
- (completed in 2011).
- The new hospital will
- feature 225 beds including
- dedicated units for pediatric
- intensive care, cardiovascular
- intensive care and neonatal
- intensive care.
- New diagnostic and
- treatment services; including a
- 14-room surgical suite, a two-room
- cardiac catheterization laboratory,
- an interventional radiology suite
- and an endoscopy
- suite.
- The Emergency Department
- will be enlarged to handle expected
- patient volumes beyond 2014. The
- existing Emergency Department was
- built to treat 35,000 patients a
- year and is currently treating more
- than 70,000
- annually.
- All patient rooms
- planned to accommodate two
- parents
- A parent stay unit for
- family members who want to remain
- close by their children in critical
- care
- Lactation rooms for
- parent and staff use
- A large Parent Resource
- Center with access to learning
- materials, the Internet and patient
- educators
- Diversionary settings
- for inpatient children, outpatients
- and siblings including a reading
- room, a mini-movie theater and play
- areas
- Better registration
- processes and improved
- convenience
- The West Tower will be
- retained and used for education,
- research, logistical services,
- medical staff facilities and parent
- stay rooms.
- The Physician Office
- Building and parking garage at 777
- Washington will be retained and
- used for the UT Medical Group's
- clinics and offices, physician
- practices and Le Bonheur
- administration
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- Double the research
- space in the Children's Foundation
- Research Center of Memphis (housed
- at Le Bonheur)
- Extensive facilities
- for staff, physician and community
- education.
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