FAST FACTS

• Golisano Children’s Hospital provides care for more than 74,000 patients  and their families each year

• By day, GCH serves as many as 650 children in its clinics and an additional 160 in the hospital

• GCH is among the nation’s top Children’s Hospitals for Orthopedics, according to the US News & World Report. 2013-2014 was the fifth year in a row the program earned that distinction.

• GCH has more than 130 beds to treat patients from the 17-County Finger Lake Region and beyond

• Golisano Children’s Hospital performs more than 30,000 pediatric surgeries and procedures annually

• The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) is the largest intensive care institution in Western and Central NY, serving more than 800 children each year

• The 60-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) has received the highest rating by the American Academy of Pediatrics

• The NICU admits more than 1,200 sick and premature newborns each year

• The Children’s Heart Center sees more than 6,000 patients a year, including 250 surgeries annually

• The Ronald McDonald ‘House Within the Hospital’ is only the 4th of its kind in the world and offers respite to parents that need to stay close to their critically ill children

• The new $145-million Golisano Children’s Hospital will be eight floors and approximately 245,000 square feet of space.Construction began in the fall of 2012 and will be completed in 2015.

• The new hospital will give our patients private rooms, including the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) rooms in the new building.

• The children’s hospital will have its own lobby and entrance, designed with children and their families in mind.

• Two floors of the new building will be dedicated to medical and surgical care and one floor will be for the NICU. The new hospital will house 52 general care rooms, and at least 60 NICU beds.

• The ground floor of the new hospital will be dedicated to Pediatric Imaging Services, with a new PET/MRI suite.

• Through the generosity of the Ronald McDonald House the lobby level will house a new hospitality suite that will give families ready access to showers, a kitchenette and laundry facilities. A new patient/family library will be located immediately adjacent to the RMH hospitality suite. A sibling club house will also be located in the lobby, meeting the needs of patients’ siblings.

• Play and normalcy are emphasized through our hallways, lobby and room designs, along with a new two-story Playdeck on the seventh floor. Overlooking the Playdeck will be a school room and a teen lounge.

• The future interior of the hospital, including graphic elements, decor, art and architectural features, will showcase the many beautiful landscapes of upstate New York. Each floor will have a different theme, such as waterways, meadows, gardens and parks, with an icon to represent it. The floor’s theme will provide creative opportunities to engage with children of all ages in interactive ways. 

• The first phase of the construction project will build eight floors, and outfit all but two. The second phase of the project, which will be completed in 2016, includes moving the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Pediatric Cardiac Care Center and Pediatric Operating Suite into the new building.

• Golisano Children’s Hospital serves more than 74,000 children and their families from across the 17-county Finger Lakes region and beyond. 

For more information about how you can support the new hospital, visit www.givetokids.urmc.edu.

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