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Children's has also gutted and redesigned space for behavioral health treatment at the Waltham site. The 12 beds will be for an acute residential treatment program for children requiring short-term psychiatric care.
The new 11-story, 445,000-square foot clinical building, planned for 55 Shattuck Street, will cost $950 million. Renovating space at the existing campus will cost another $250 million.
The building will include a new cafe, library, multi-specialty clinic, expanded operating rooms, and a consolidated heart center - which will include cardiac operating rooms, catheterization labs, cardiac MRI, and cardiac intensive care units. Additionally, new operating rooms will be added and a new neonatal intensive care unit will come online on the 11th floor. The expanded NICU, which will feature individual rooms, will have a total of 30 beds - six more than were available in the previous space. A complex surgical unit will also be in the new building. Four floors underground will provide support space, such as a pharmacy, kitchen and pathology labs.
"The next part of redeveloping the Longwood campus is once we get this building built, we can go back and redevelop the main building, which was built in 1988. At the time, it was state of the art, but that’s changed," said Dr. Kevin Churchwell, chief operating officer at Children's.
The new outdoor garden is going to be space that is now being occupied by asphalt and another area that is next to the ambulatory building. The open face of the new clinical building will be the outdoor garden, Churchwell said. The space, along with multiple indoor green spaces, are intended to replace the beloved Prouty Garden.
Existing functions in the Wolbach building, which include administration, quality programs and radiology staff, will move into the Landmark Building on the Joslin Diabetes Center campus. Though Children's will lease the space for five to six years, administrative functions aren't likely to return to Children's main campus, Churchwell said. The goal is to keep administrative services in another area, so that clinical functions can stay within Longwood.
Children's has chosen the architect and construction manager. The design is estimated to be finalized by early next year.
Moving existing functions out of the main campus will allow Children's to further develop areas focused on oncology, neuroscience and urology, Churchwell said.
In addition to garden space planned for the ground level, shown here between the new clinical building and the Fegan building, the new clinical building will also have interior garden space.
In addition to the garden space in the new building (shown here), the hospital is also planning on building a roof garden on the main building.
“We recognize that the importance of our green spaces, so there will be green spaces within the new clinical building," Churchwell said. "That will be green spaces all year round. A winter garden is an example of what families and staff can utilize. We will have our outside garden…we are also working through and we’re getting close to figuring out our garden space as we do the construction."
The $1.5 million project "would get us within the 10-year plan," Churchwell said. "We will continue to look at what does the 25-year plan and 30-year plan look like. There are possibilities and opportunities with research and ambulatory environment that we’re still working through."
Funding for the construction will come from a variety of sources, including revenue generated by the hospital, the endowment, municipal bonds, and philanthropy.
The hospital hasn't yet come up with a goal for philanthropic funding.
"Our plans to continue to develop our Waltham campus," Churchwell said of the 200,000 square-foot Waltham addition, which will cost $300 million.
The construction on the Waltham campus is estimated to start sometime next year and be completed by 2019.
The Waltham campus will include a 48 inpatient bed hospital, which will include orthopedic and sports excellence programs. Other surgical specialties and clinics that currently operate out of Waltham will be able to expand.
Children's has also gutted and redesigned space for behavioral health treatment at the Waltham site. The 12 beds will be for an acute residential treatment program for children requiring short-term psychiatric care.
The new 11-story, 445,000-square foot clinical building, planned for 55 Shattuck Street, will cost $950 million. Renovating space at the existing campus will cost another $250 million.
