Take a virtual tour
(in the video above)
of what
the new, state-of-the-art WVU Medicine Children's Hospital will look like, addressing current
capacity issues and better serving the healthcare needs of all of West Virginia’s
women and children.
Building a new hospital,
especially one for kids, is a heavy lift. Consider donating to help raise the $60 million needed to make the hospital
a reality.
“This is a necessity, not a nicety,” Gordon Gee, WVU president and chairman of
the West Virginia University Health S
ystem Board of Directors, said when the project was first announced
. “The children and families we serve will be relying on our friends and alumni,
our businesses, the people of West Virginia, and the Mountaineer Nation – wherever
the
y may be – to pitch in and to make this project a reality.”
The 155-bed, eight-story tower is scheduled to be completed in 2020. In addition
to the WVU-themed floor, the tower will include:
- Diagnostic imaging and a laboratory
- Two connections to the Southeast Tower (the WVU Heart and Vascular Institute)
- Operating rooms, cardiac catheterization, and endoscopy facilities
- A 25-bed Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and sedation unit
- A Pediatric Cancer Center
- A 61-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
- A 39-bed pediatric acute care unit
- A 30-bed obstetrical unit with potential for expansion
- A medical office building, including pediatric subspecialty and Maternal-Fetal Medicine clinics
WVU Medicine Children's provides the greatest range of pediatric specialty,
high-risk maternal, and comprehensive gynecological care in central Appalachia.
Gifts for the $60 million capital campaign are being made through
the WVU Foundation, the non-profit organization that receives and administers
private donations on behalf of the University.