New All Children's Hospital Opens In St. Petersburg

Seven years in the making, a new All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg opened its doors to the public on Nov. 21 with approximately 3,000 people attending a ribbon-cutting ceremony featuring a marching band, arts and crafts, and games.

"Patients were scheduled to move into the new hospital on Dec. 12, but that has been postponed until Saturday, Jan. 9," says Ann Miller, media relations manager at All Children's Hospital.

The hospital is equipped with:

• 259 licensed beds for the highest level of pediatric care; most are individual rooms.
• Private bathrooms and showers in most patient rooms, plus family amenities (small refrigerators, secure storage shelves, separate TVs for parents and space for parents to stay overnight).
• Patient Entertainment Systems at each bedside, with on-demand access to the Internet, movies and games as well as educationalprograms specific to patient care.
• Twelve state-of-the-art operating suites.
• Three distinct intensive care units, one encompassing an entire floor of the hospital.
• Four playrooms, plus a separate pirate ship on the second floor rooftop playground.
• The 97-bed All Children's Hospital Guild Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, one of the largest ICUs for newborns in the southeastern United States

Current openings at All Children's Hospital include: associate vice president of research and systems analyst.

Writer: Nancy Vaughn
Source: Ann Miller, All Children's Hospital