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Earlier today, BJC HealthCare and Washington University School of Medicine shared renderings for the future of the Kingshighway campus that will improve the patient experience at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children's Hospital, and the Washington University School of Medicine.
Designed by St. Louis-based engineering and architecture firm HOK, the new towers (pictured below) at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital are slated to open in early 2018 in the first phase of a 10-year, campus-renewal project that will also include renovations to the south end of the campus, parking and traffic-flow improvements, and better wayfinding for patients. Demolition of the Jewish Hospital School of Nursing and the Kingshighway, Steinberg, and Yalem buildings began last year and will be completed this spring.
The phase-one improvements will consolidate and expand clinical care at Siteman Cancer Center, expand the neonative intensive care unit at St. Louis Children's Hospital, consolidate and modernize the Women and Infants program, and more. Overall, the expansion will add 545,000 square feet to Barnes-Jewish Hospital's north campus and 214,000 square feet to St. Louis Children's Hospital.
"Our new patient care facilities will be attractive and welcoming for our patients, but more importantly are designed to incorporate the most advanced approaches to patient care, comfort, healing and safety, while supporting the discovery and educational missions of Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine,” said St. Louis Children's Hospital president Joan Magruder in a press release.
