The Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health received a $100 million gift from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to modernize the obstetric and neonatal facilities at the Stanford hospital. This will enable the children’s hospital to increase access for expectant mothers and babies from throughout California and beyond.
The gift will transform the hospital’s existing West building, which opened in 1991. It is the only facility in the Bay Area to offer obstetric, neonatal, and developmental medicine services all in one location, according to the news release. The redesign will ensure a more comfortable patient experience and facilitate lifesaving care for complex pregnancies, deliveries, and newborn care. Nearly two-thirds of expectant mothers at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford are high-risk, with patients coming from across the state, the nation, and the world for treatment.
The new layout will increase the size of the labor and delivery unit, adding capacity for up to 20% more births. The building will also house the hospital’s first-ever dedicated and physically separate unit for high-risk moms who need to be hospitalized for days, weeks, or months before they deliver, ensuring rapid access to a state-of-the-art obstetric delivery suite. Read more.
