Fact sheet

The $523 million U-M C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital Replacement Project

• The goal of the C.S. Mott Children’s and Women’s Hospital Replacement Project is to increase privacy and capacity for patients, and provide more comfortable and attractive facilities for our patients and their families.
• To date, the U-M Health System has raised $46 million for the new building project. Its fund-raising campaign, part of the University-wide $2.5 billion Michigan Difference campaign, is led by U-M Regent David Brandon and his wife, Jan, and U-M head football coach Lloyd Carr and his wife, Laurie.
• Scheduled to open in spring 2011, the $523 million facility will total 1.1 million gross square feet. Of that, 855,000 square feet will be devoted to inpatient space and 245,000 square feet will be used for clinics and offices; those numbers include about   180,000 square feet of space for future growth and expansion.
• The new children’s and women’s hospital will include a 9-story tower for clinic space, and a 12-story tower devoted to inpatient care that will bridge inpatient and outpatient services within the same medical disciplines to create a programmatic approach to patient care on each floor. Within the new facility, there will be:
  
  • A basement level maintenance garage, which will provide storage and service for medical equipment. It will replace storage areas previously housed on patient floors, to maximize space for patient care.
  • Two-story lobby with Family Resource Center overlooking an outdoor garden park, complete with a library, teaching rooms, computer access and a place to meet in private with social workers and other health care providers. The lobby will be staffed 24 hours a day with greeters to increase security and aid with wayfinding.
  • A separate entrance off East Medical Center Drive that will lead into a dedicated pediatric emergency and urgent care center. The center will include 30 exam rooms, six observation bay, general X-ray, CT scanning and Hazmat capabilities, and shell space for future growth. A helipad on top of the 12-story tower will include an elevator with direct access to the pediatric emergency center.
  • On-call suites for health care providers.
  • Three-hundred-square-foot pediatric inpatient rooms with computer and wireless technology access, and special areas inside and outside of the room for the patient to decorate and personalize. These rooms will comprise of three parts: a clinician area at the entrance; a patient care area; and a family area where parents can stay with their child 24 hours a day and no medical procedures will be performed.
  • Sixteen pediatric operating rooms, which have been designed in anticipation of future advancements in portable imaging technology. Alongside the ORs will be private pre-op areas, as well the Post Anesthesia Recovery Unit. In its current eight pediatric operating rooms, Mott performed more than 8,400 surgical procedures in fiscal year 2005 alone.
  • A floor devoted to inpatient and outpatient cancer care. This floor will be home to 32 adult bone marrow transplant rooms, and 32 pediatric bone marrow transplant rooms. It will include a pediatric non-cancer infusion areas as well, in addition to a dedicated infusion pharmacy. This floor also will include a family workout area, to enhance the family-centered care experience.
    
  • The Neonatal Intensive Care Unit for critically ill newborns, which will grow from 40 beds in the current Mott Hospital to 46 beds in the new facility. All beds in the new NICU will be private, and include space for parents or caregivers to stay with their child 24 hours a day.
  • Thirty-one spacious obstetric and gynecology exam and procedure rooms, allowing for more procedures to be moved out of the OR. The Ob/Gyn clinics will share a floor with the Women’s Birth Center. The 30 private labor/delivery/recovery rooms in the Birth Center will all have natural light, and 20 additional rooms are planned for antepartum or postpartum care.
  • The Pediatric Intensive Care Unit and the Pediatric Cardio-Thoracic Unit, which will share a floor, as they do in the current Mott Hospital. A special feature of the floor will be the Family Accommodation Area, created in partnership with the Ronald McDonald House, to provide short-term lodging for patient families with the most critical and urgent needs until other lodging becomes available. The Family Accommodation Area will include 12 dorm-style rooms with beds, showers and desks.   
  • The clinical and outpatient services of Michigan Congenital Heart Center, which provides the best care available for infants, children, adolescents and adults with congenital heart defects and diseases, will all be located on one floor within the new facility.
• Special Hepa filtering air handling equipment for all inpatient areas.
• Plans to pursue Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The planned location for replacement project is the “Terrace Site,” the surface parking lot south of Taubman Health Center on the U-M Medical Campus. The site offers several advantages including a connection to the U-M’s other major medical buildings, and close proximity to the Ronald McDonald House and the Nichols Arboretum.
• The state-of-the-art facility will be wireless and paperlight upon opening.
• The project will be funded through philanthropy and hospital reserves. No state funding will be needed.
• The architectural firm of HKS Architects is retained to design the building project.
  
• The existing facility will be used to benefit the entire Health System. The space will be used for additional faculty offices, clinic facilities, family space and much more to support the growing needs of UMHS patients.