Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Expansion
Palo Alto, CA
Overview
The Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) expansion adds 521,000 sf of building space and 149 patient beds. LPCH is staffed by physician-scientists from Stanford University School of Medicine. The need for a robust technology infrastructure was recognized from the beginning. The hospital represented a major upgrade in information systems and medical equipment.
(Rendering Courtesy of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford)
Behind the Walls
The hospital encloses over 3.5 acres of gardens, where Movie Night in the Emerald Garden is held on warm evenings. Thanks to an entertainment system of TEECOM’s design, with a huge inflatable movie screen, patients, visitors, and families are able to view movies from the lawn in rows of terraced seating.
(Rendering Courtesy of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford)
Benefit to the Client
LPCH’s high standard of care and research puts incredible demands on the telecommunications infrastructure and network in a hospital environment. In addition, all of the hospital’s IT systems converged onto the network. To satisfy these demands, TEECOM designed the telecommunications infrastructure using a standards-based approach to support all systems from legacy to the latest technology. The cabling plant was designed and built for the most rigorous and high-bandwidth applications the hospital could foresee, with room to grow. Throughout the hospital, digital wayfinding, patient room technology, Real-Time Location Systems, and a child-friendly broadcast studio enhance the daily lives of patients in a worldclass care environment.
Services Provided
Telecom
Campus/Building Pathways; Backbone Cabling; Horizontal Cabling; Nurse Call/Code Blue System; Elapsed Timer System; Area of Refuge Communications; Infrastructure for Medical and Surgical Systems
Audiovisual
Conference Room Systems; Conference Room Scheduling System; Public Address System; Clinical Sound Systems; Clinical/ADT Display System; Patient Tracking Boards; Infrastructure for Clinical AV Systems and Equipment
Security
Access Control and Alarm Monitoring System; Elevator Access Control; Video Surveillance; Equipment Alarms; Parking Controls; Emergency Call Stations ('Blue Phones')
Project Management
Project Management: On-Site Technology Project Management (ITPM)
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford Expansion
Location 725 Welch Road Palo Alto CA, 94304
Project Type Children's Hospital, Hospital
Project Team
Owner: Stanford Children’s Health
Architect: HGA Architects and Engineers
Architect: Perkins + Will
Project Size
521,000 sf
Completion Date
2018
LEED Certification
LEED Platinum
Photographer
Renderings Courtesy of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
