Miami Children's Hospital
Miami, Florida
Critical Care Bed Tower Planning and Design

Poltronieri Tang & Associates has been selected to provide pediatric planning and design services to the architectural team led by Perkins+Will of Coral Gables, FL for the new Critical Care Bed Tower building at Miami Children's Hospital.  PT&A’s primary role and responsibility on the project focuses on issues of particular importance and concern to pediatric patients and their family members.  In addition to traditional planning and design services, PT&A is working in tandem with the Patient and Family Advisory Council to ensure that all appropriate concerns and issues are being expressed and then addressed throughout the building design process.

Existing MCH Facility

The detailed Patient/Family Vision Statement for the project, encompassing over 75 specific project goals, begins with the following statements.

• “Create a children’s healthcare campus which promotes and enhances patient and family well being with each visit and helps to establish and reinforce a lifetime of health and learning”

• “Make the spiritual and emotional care of the patient and family as high a priority as medical care”

• “Create a children’s healthcare campus which sets a new benchmark for child-centered family-focused care and reinforces Miami Children’s Hospital as the provider of choice for families seeking care for their children in the South Florida region”

The new Critical Care Tower, which is currently in the planning and programming phase, will include the following major components:

PT&A Planning Session

• New 56 Bed Private Room Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

• New 30 Bed Pediatric Critical Care Unit

• New 24 Medical Surgical Bed Unit

• Diagnostic and Treatment Services expansion, including MRI and Inter-Operative MRI

• Emergency Department Expansion

• Public Entry and Family Support Amenities

Anticipated start of construction is fall 2008.