A day years in the making is upon us: Loma Linda University Health will break ground on its new adult and Children’s Hospital towers this Sunday, May 22, from 2 to 5 p.m. The formal program will begin at 2:30 p.m.
One and all are invited to come and celebrate the future of health care in the local region.
The event will be a day of health and wholeness for the entire family. Join the activities including obstacle courses, face painting and a petting zoo. Families can enjoy free giveaways, cooking demonstrations and a sneak peek of the new Children’s Hospital.
The groundbreaking will signify the beginning of construction on the new state-of-the-art facilities where the community will receive the quality, compassionate, whole person care that Loma Linda University Health is known for.
Find more event details at groundbreaking.lluh.org or call 1-877-LLUMC-4U. And view the promotional video here.
Additionally, follow the event on social media using #LLUHGroundbreaking.
The new hospital complex will reside in what was once the patient parking lot of LLU Medical Center on the northwest corner of Anderson Street and Barton Road. The complex will house a new Children’s Hospital tower and a new adult tower, which will meet California seismic requirements that the current adult hospital does not meet for inpatient care.
“The current adult hospital is nearly 50 years old,” says Richard Hart, MD, PhD, president, Loma Linda University Health. “It no longer meets the needs of our students and patients at the level we desire. This challenge to be compliant has been turned into an incredible opportunity to serve our community and world for the next 50 years and beyond.”
In addition to meeting the needs of the changing health care environment, the new hospital complex will boast the newest technology and expanded research capacity:
- At 267 feet tall, the hospital will be the tallest building in San Bernardino County.
- The hospital towers will move with seismic forces atop 126 base isolators.
- This will be the first hospital in California to have OSHPD-approved individual nursing stations located outside patients’ rooms for total care.
- The new hospital will be 16 stories tall plus one basement floor and a helipad.
- It will offer 100 percent private patient rooms.
- To maximize care, there will be separate adult and children’s emergency departments.
- Plans include an expanded Total Care Birth Center and neonatal ICU.
- The 16th floor will contain an education and conference center.
- Upon completion, the total licensed bed count will be 693 in the adult and Children’s Hospitals.
- This will be the second largest medical center in California.
- For the next four years, this will be the largest hospital project in California.