The state-of-the-art facility spans 131,000 square feet.
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Billionaire and Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has donated $25 million to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, one of the largest single donations in the hospital’s 72-year history.
The money will help fund a five-story surgical tower, now under construction and set to open in 2024. The tower, which will be named the Kenneth C. Griffin Surgical Tower, will house pre-and post-surgical care suites, and will utilize the latest tech to boost patient care, including robotics, augmented and virtual reality.
The hospital says Griffin’s donation will help support its pediatric care for the brain, cancer, blood disorders, the heart and orthopedics.
Source: Miami Herald
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
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in southern Miami-Dade County has proposed a new surgical building.
The nonprofit hospital filed a pre-application with county officials concerning its 23.1-acre campus at 3200 S.W. 60th Court. It wants to build a four-story, 116,169-square-foot surgical building on the south side of the campus, to be built atop the one-story emergency department. It would also relocate the helipad from the rooftop of the emergency room to the roof of the existing 6-story patient bed building.
Chicago-based Perkins & Will designed the project. Miami-based attorney Simon Ferro represents the hospital in the application.
Founded in 1950, Nicklaus Children’s Hospital is the only licensed specialty hospital for children in South Florida.
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Golisano Children’s Hospital of Southwest Florida is expanding services in Naples and has forged a transfer agreement with the NCH Healthcare System.
The agreement is for seriously ill children who are in the care of an NCH hospital yet need more specialized services available at the children’s hospital located in south Fort Myers.
The goal is to make patient transfers run smoother and represents a fresh start between the two hospitals, said Armando Llechu, chief administrative officer of the 128-bed Golisano hospital.
“That was a really good first step to building a relationship,” Llechu said.
NCH historically has had a transfer agreement to send sick children when necessary to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital in Miami, formerly Miami Children’s Hospital.
NCH’s pediatrics services at North Naples hospital, including its pediatrics emergency department, have been expanded and upgraded to keep more children closer to home for care.
Golisano children’s hospital achieved a new milestone in 2017 with the completion of its new seven-story, $200-million hospital adjacent to HealthPark Medical Center to better serve the five-county area of Southwest Florida. Previously, the children’s hospital was inside HealthPark.
Llechu said he and Dr. Emad Salman, regional medical officer at Golisano, met with NCH’s interim CEO Phil Dutcher, and the agreement was signed July 1.
“(We) said this is an opportunity to start a new chapter in the care of children in the region,” Llechu said.
Dutcher served as interim CEO following the resignation in January of Dr. Allen Weiss until the Sept. 3 start of Paul Hiltz as the new president and CEO.
Dutcher said he reached out to many people and organizations, including Golisano, when he was interim CEO.
“I thought (the transfer agreement) was a good first step and the right thing to do,” Dutcher said, who is back as NCH chief operations officer.
Salman said it is not unusual for general acute-care hospitals to have transfer agreements with more than one children’s hospital. That’s because not all provide a complete line up of services. For instance, Golisano does not have the demand yet to add pediatric heart transplant services.
Besides the transfer agreement with NCH, Golisano has been working on projects at its Golisano’s Children’s Health Center in Naples at Pine Ridge and Livingston roads.
Golisano’s contract for Nicklaus Children’s to provide three physicians for the urgent care center at the Naples complex has ended. Four physicians with Golisano are now rotating through the urgent care center that is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Llechu, who came to Golisano in 2017 after serving as vice president of clinical operations at Nicklaus Children’s, said there was no controversy with ending the arrangement.
“They realize having a remote location created some logistical challenges as well,” he said.
When respiratory infections are common among children, the urgent care center can see 20 to 30 patients a day, Salman said.
“In summer, it’s 10 to 15 a day,” he said. “Two years ago when we had really bad flu season, we saw 40 to 50 patients a day.”
In terms of how many Collier children who need to be hospitalized through the Naples urgent care center and Golisano physician practice in the same building, it’s about two a month, Salman said.
“We try very hard not to bring them up here unless absolutely necessary,” Llechu said.
The pediatric specialists who see children in the office practice are preparing for expansions, he said.
That includes build out of a 4,000-square-foot cancer center, the addition of two gastroenterologists for rotations, and the hiring of a second autism navigator to keep pace with increased diagnosis of autism, he said.
“We are seeing a lot more autism in the entire region,” Llechu said.
The cancer center program is in design phase now; all together Golisano is investing about $1 million in the Naples complex, he said.
Source: Naples News