Childrens
Hospital Los Angeles
The
recently completed five-story, 88,500-square foot Saban Research
Institute building, at the corner of Vermont and Sunset will allow
physician-scientists at the The Saban Research Institute of
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles – already the largest and
most productive pediatric research center in the western United States,
and one of the few freestanding research facilities in the nation
dedicated exclusively to children – to expand existing research
programs and pursue new inquiries into such rapidly evolving areas as
neuroscience and medical genetics to benefit children everywhere.
New underground parking facilities are covered
with a beautifully landscaped Healing Garden, making it possible for the
hospital to demolish the Santa Anita Building, and adjacent parking
garage, to build a new seven-floor, 280-bed patient tower, wrapped
around the H. Russell and Jeanne R. Smith Research Tower,
both to meet and exceed the new seismic standards required by the state
of California, as well as provide a nurturing, family-centered
environment in which children and their families can heal and learn
together.
The
first phase of the parking structure consists of four underground levels
and a "Quiet Healing Garden" at the grade level. The main
hospital lobby and entrance,
currently located in the Marion and John E. Anderson Building (constructed
by R&S in 2001), which is adjacent to the new parking structure,
will be expanded to accommodate the future New Inpatient Tower project.
Phase
II of the parking structure will have a layout similar to Phase I and
will connect the two parking structures together. After Phase II is
complete, the existing parking structure will be demolished and a New
Inpatient Tower will be constructed.
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