Bob the Builder, public television’s pint-sized
animated construction guru, would have been right
at home on the Miami Children’s Hospital main
campus in 2013. Cranes, cement trucks and hard
hats dotted the campus as construction teams
worked to bring to life an expanded Emergency
Department and a new Imaging Department.
“We made huge strides in 2013 toward the creation
of the expanded Emergency Department and
Imaging Department, projects that make way for
our planned new Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion,”
said Nikole Sanchez-Rubiera, Vice President of
Transformation. “We continue on a course that
will transform our campus and create a care
environment consistent with the caliber of care
offered by our world-class physicians and staff.”
Paving the Way
To prepare for the tower construction, the
hospital in 2013 focused on relocating and
expanding the hospital’s Imaging Department,
resituating each individual service within the
department separately while continuing to meet
the service demands of the community.
The new 40,000-square-foot Imaging
Department houses the hospital’s magnetic
resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound, X-ray,
nuclear medicine, positron emission tomography
(PET) and computed tomography (CT) services.
Emergency Department Expansion Takes Shape
Bigger and better. That’s what’s in store for
Miami Children’s Hospital’s popular Emergency
Department. Work advanced in 2013 on an
expansion and update of the department,
which continued to welcome record numbers
of patients. Twenty new exam rooms and an
enhanced waiting area, offering activities for
children of all ages, were being added.
Funding for this project
is made possible through
Together For The Children,
the Campaign for Miami
Children’s Hospital.
To help support this
initiative please
visit
mchf.org/together
or call Miami Children’s
Hospital Foundation
at 305-666-2889.
The construction will include the expanded
Miguel “Mike” B. Fernandez Family Pediatric
Trauma Center, featuring new critical care
bays – made possible through the generosity
of Miguel B. Fernandez and his family. The
Emergency Department expansion, which is
scheduled to be completed at the end of 2014,
will also include an orthopedic fracture center.
Advanced Pediatric Care Pavilion
These projects are setting the stage for the
planned 217,000-square-foot Advanced
Pediatric Care Pavilion. The six-story structure,
slated to open in 2016, will offer an enhanced
care environment for children and families. Plans
call for construction of three new private-room
intensive care units, affording families optimized
care space for children with critical healthcare
needs. In addition, the building will feature a
new family center, amenities and outdoor respite
spaces adjacent to the first floor lobby.
The Cardiac Intensive Care Unit will occupy the
second floor, with the third and fourth floors
housing the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit respectively.
The fifth floor will feature a new Neurology/
Neurosurgery Unit and the Miami Children’s
Cancer Center. Plans are still being developed for
the sixth floor.
The project is one of the seven priorities of
Together For The Children, The Campaign for Miami
Children’s Hospital. To help support this initiative
please visit mchf.org/together or call Miami
Children’s Hospital Foundation at 305-666-2889.
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