Construction is well underway toward the scheduled opening of the new patient care wing and expanded emergency and trauma center at Cardinal Glennon Children’s Hospital in 2003.
 
 

 

This view shows the previous Grand Avenue side of the hospital as well as the new entrance and patient care wing.
 
This project, marking the latest chapter in the renewal of the hospital campus, was designed with the intent of making Glennon the most child- and family-friendly hospital in America.
  Daylight and multi-colored lighting will warm and illuminate the patient playroom on a corner of the new building.  
 

 


 
The admitting desk in the Ambulatory Care Center provides privacy for families and offers active and quiet waiting areas bathed in natural light.


 
The patient floor family lounge was designed to give patients and families a home-like place in which to relax during hospitalizations.  A variety of seating and a carpeted play area, including bookshelves, a television and toys, encourage play or quiet time.

The patient rooms in the new wing are
designed to foster patient comfort and family visits. An Internet-accessible desk allows the use of laptop computers, and a sofa bed allows parents to spend the night. Each private room has its own bathroom.

Magnetic boards in the hallways will be used to display patient artwork and photos. Warm, comforting and engaging colors and patterns decorate the corridors.
Niches filled with mazes, peg boards and puzzles will line a wall of the patient floor corridors to encourage play. Small bench seats will be placed in out-of-the-way locations to give children additional options for therapeutic play.

The emergency department’s admitting desk (below) is adjacent to comfortable waiting spaces with tables and chairs for parents and children, including low tables at which children can draw or read.
Flexible event space, at the convergence of corridors connecting the Costas Center and new Ambulatory Care Center, can be configured for presentations and other events.

Flooring colors from the Costas Center carry through to the new buildings via fluid bands of color, with a vortex pattern in the event space directly beneath a recessed ceiling illuminated with multi-colored lights.

The new gift shop and retail pharmacy open onto the event space.
For additional information on this project, you may call the office of the Board of Governors at 314.577.5605 or 800.269.0552 or e-mail us at info@glennon.org.