Nicklaus Children’s Hospital Launches Surgical Tower

Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is launching the next phase of its master facility plan, with the construction of a 127,000-square-foot surgical tower.

Slated for completion in 2024, The tower will rise four stories above the hospital’s emergency department at 3100 SW 62nd Ave.

“The tower will strengthen our legacy as the number one children’s hospital in Florida,” said Matthew A. Love, president and CEO of Nicklaus Children’s Health System, “and the premier center for delivering the best surgical care to the children of our community, our state and around the world.”

The surgical tower will enable the hospital to construct new state-of-the-art operating suites to replace existing operating rooms that are now 35 years old and lack the size and ceiling height necessary to accommodate fully the latest equipment, along with multidisciplinary surgical teams required for complex cases.

Services would include augmented reality during surgery and virtual reality surgical planning. The new structure plans to also offer spacious and private pre-and post-surgical care spaces for the children and families.

The tower will co-exist along with the Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion, the hospital’s 217,000-square-foot, six-story bed tower that is home to the hospital’s three intensive care units, which are pediatric, neonatal and congenital heart, as well as the hematology-oncology bone marrow transplant and neurology units.

Contracted by Brasfield & Gorrie and architecture by Perkins+Will, the surgical tower is set to feature spacious single-patient rooms, an intraoperative MRI and the latest technology.

“The planned new state-of-the-art surgical suites have been on the hospital’s ‘wish list’ for many years,” said Jack Nicklaus, iconic golfer and philanthropist, “and we know the tower is going to fill an important need for the children of South Florida and around the globe.”

 

Source:  Miami Today