A $345-million expansion begins in 1999.
Funded in part by the $80-million capital campaign, Building for
Children, it is one of
the largest health expansion projects to date.
Texas Children's history-making
expansion is completed in 2003.
The inpatient rooms in the
West Tower are renovated to be
more family friendly using the latest technological advances.
Lobby areas in the new
Clinical Care
Center are decorated with brightly colored play forms, high ceilings
and plenty of light.
Texas Children's extends its services
throughout
the community
Neighborhood Services
Texas Children's Pediatric Associates
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Texas Children's Pediatric Associates (TCPA), part of
Texas Children's Integrated Delivery System, is formed with the
acquisition of Ashford Pediatric Associates. TCPA physicians are
located throughout the city and surrounding areas.
Texas Children's Health Centers In September of 1997, the first
Texas
Children's Health Center opened to provide
children and adolescents in outlying areas of Houston easier access
to the same high-quality specialty care available at the hospital's
main campus.
Pedestrian sky-bridges allow convenient,
climate-controlled access between Texas Children's
buildings.
After
Texas Children’s latest expansion, the approximate total
corridor length, including the West Tower, Abercrombie, the
S-Lot Building and Feigin Center, slightly exceeds 11 miles.
The 16-story Clinical Care
Center houses most of the hospital's outpatient clinics.
It has 819,280 square feet and cost $175 million
to construct.
The
Clinical Care Center also houses a food court on the third
floor.
Texas Children's West
Tower, the hospital's inpatient facility, has been part of
the hospital since 1991. Its expansion cost
a total of $127 million and added 15 stories. The West Tower is now 20 stories high and totals
1.02 million square feet.
The 16th floor of the West
Tower is designated as a family services floor. It features
pre-teen and teen activity rooms with a stage and big screen
theater, a patient and family library, a vending area, Houston
Independent School District classrooms, hair salon,
laundry facilities and private phone booths, as well as
Radio Lollipop, the in-house radio station.
FKP Architects awarded top honors for West
Tower design
FKP Architects was awarded first place
for a commercial design at the 17th Annual American Society of
Interior Designers (ASID)/Houston Chronicle Interior Design Awards for
their innovative design of the Texas Children's Hospital West Tower floors.
This honor was given in recognition of
their design incorporating curves, strong colors, and special
designated areas, such as "front porches" outside patient rooms and
family lounges, giving patient rooms a more comfortable
feeling.
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