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You can help us provide the best care to all children by giving to the Building Hope Project.
- Donate online: check "Other" and specify Building Hope Project
- Email us or call the Seattle Children’s Hospital Foundation for more information at 206-987-2153
Our Need to Expand
The sickest kids in our region are referred to Seattle Children’s for medical expertise they can’t get anywhere else.
But our hospital is too full. Our hospital exceeded the state recommended inpatient capacity 94% of the time since fiscal year 2009.
We need a space to provide the best, safest and most compassionate care.
Building Hope will enable us to increase capacity and improve care for our most vulnerable patients – those battling cancer and critical illness – and those in need of emergency services.
Cancer Care
Our cancer care unit is ranked one of the top ten pediatric cancer centers in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s annual America’s Best Children’s Hospitals issue. But we are too full.
Our cancer unit often exceeds the recommended inpatient capacity. Our new facility expands to a 48-bed unit of all single-occupancy rooms to ensure privacy and increase safety by reducing the risk of infection.
The unit will feature a dedicated floor of 16 beds for adolescents and young adults.
With your help, Seattle Children’s will transform care for children with cancer and blood disorders – and their families.
"When you have a child with a life-threatening illness, the hospital becomes your home. The single-patient rooms and amenities in the new building will help parents focus on the well-being of their child." — Teresa Stubrud, parent of two cancer survivors
Critical Care
Our critical care team provides the highest level of lifesaving care available to children and families within our four-state region. Today, we can’t always be sure a critical care bed will be available when a child needs one.
Your gift will support the urgent expansion of critical care – in a world-class facility that promotes healing and supports families.
" We can’t honor our promise to the community if we have to delay treatment or turn children away because our hospital is full." — Susan Heath, chief nursing officer
Emergency Department
The emergency department is an extension of critical care. Critically ill patients transferred to Children’s by ground and air are stabilized – and sometimes resuscitated – in the emergency department before being transferred to critical care.
Of all children admitted to Seattle Children’s, nearly 50% come through the emergency department.
The emergency department is an essential component of our services. We hope to welcome patients to the new emergency department in spring 2013 but we need philanthropic support.
- Help us include the emergency department in the first phase of our expansion: Please donate (check "Other" and specify Building Hope Project).
"The longer children and their families have to wait for emergency care, the more anxious they become. A larger facility with more treatment rooms and improved clinical workflow will reduce wait times and make a trip to the ED a far less stressful experience." — Dr. Tony Woodward, Chief, Emergency Department
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