Lucile Packard Children's Hospital
Hospital in California
Follow Lucile Packard Children's Hospital on Notably News to receive short updates to your email — rarely!
| 2021 | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital ranked nationally in all 10 pediatric specialties in the U.S. News & World Report, including notable top rankings such as 3rd in Neonatology, 4th in Pediatric Nephrology, and 6th in Pediatric Pulmonology & Lung Surgery. |
| 2019 | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford achieved Magnet recognition, receiving the highest honor for nursing excellence. This is a prestigious achievement, with only 8 percent of U.S. health care organizations out of more than 6,300 U.S. hospitals obtaining this recognition. |
| 2019 | Stanford Children's Health and Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford earned the CHIME HealthCare's Most Wired recognition as a certified level 9 for the fifth consecutive year, highlighting their advanced healthcare information management. |
| 2019 | The National Organisation For Arts In Health awarded the new LPCH building its Hamilton Award for Recognition in the Arts Transforming Environments category, recognizing the positive impact of artwork in the healthcare environment. |
| 2019 | The hospital won the national award for Excellence in Pediatric Patient Care from the Child Health Corporation of America for outstanding rapid response performance. |
| November 2019 | Stanford Hospital expanded, moving their adult emergency department and trauma center to a new building, which enabled LPCH to expand their pediatric emergency department. |
| November 2018 | Paul King was appointed as the new president and chief executive officer, succeeding Christopher Dawes. |
| August 2018 | Christopher Dawes retired from his position as president and chief executive officer of the hospital. |
| December 9 2017 | Opened a new 521,000 square-foot main building with 3.5 acres of gardens, expanding to 361 patient beds and becoming the second children's hospital worldwide to earn LEED Platinum certification for sustainability. |
| December 9 2017 | Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford opened a new 521,000 square-foot main building, more than doubling the hospital's size and adding 149 patient beds, bringing the total to 361 on the Palo Alto campus. |
| 2016 | A major expansion of the Ronald McDonald House was completed, doubling its capacity from 67 to 123 families per night, adding 50,000 square feet, and costing $40.5 million. This expansion made it the largest Ronald McDonald House in the world. |
This contents of the box above is based on material from the Wikipedia article Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.