The Shriners for Children Medical Center in Los Angeles has announced it is moving to Pasadena, Calif., where a new complex will integrate a contemporary, three-story medical building with a healing-centered landscape.
The new healthcare center is part of a Shriners campaign to replace or renovate its aging facilities with buildings that better meet its mission of providing care to young patients, as well as advancing education and research, throughout the system's 22 hospitals nationwide.
In addition to moving to Pasadena, Shriners will also be moving to a new outpatient care model. The adjacent Huntington Memorial Hospital will partner with Shriners to serve more complicated inpatient concerns as required.
"Throughout its 90-year history, Shriners has consistently developed new treatment methods for children to reduce their hospital stays," said Craig Tompkins, principal at healthcare architecture firm SRG Partnership. "Continuing to advance these opportunities, it now performs more outpatient surgeries than in the past. We're making sure the new medical center in Pasadena supports this progress with state-of-the art technology and spaces that enhance healing experiences for children and their families."
The Pasadena medical complex will include a 74,800-square-foot three-story building, outpatient surgery center, medical clinics and offices, as well as outdoor gathering areas, walking paths, rehabilitation gardens and several levels of underground parking.
All total the project is slated to cost $55 million and is scheduled open in 2017.
Images: Courtesy CO Architects and Rios Clementi Hale Studios, two organizations on the project team.