Why does Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital need to expand?
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital has an acute shortage of beds and needs to expand in order to meet capacity needs and further its mission of providing family-centered care for its patients. As more routine cases are being treated through outpatient care, Packard Children’s is taking care of more critically ill children who require longer stays at the Hospital. Packard Children’s will also feature single-patient rooms to reduce infection rates, increase privacy and allow more space for families to be a part of their child’s healing process. In addition, as medical technology changes rapidly, the equipment used by the Children’s Hospital has become more sophisticated and requires larger and more modern facilities to function properly.
