Your Sneak Peek Inside the New Jim Pattison Children's Hospital

Your Sneak Peek Inside the New Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital

The countdown to the opening of the new Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital hit an historic milestone with Graham Construction handing over the keys to the Saskatchewan Health Authority in May. While work will continue on final elements ahead of opening later this fall, construction is “substantially complete” with the project on time and on budget.

“The new hospital will deliver a more patient-centric approach where services are organized around the patient, rather than children and their families having to navigate and search out these services,” said Dr. Laurentiu Givelichian, Head of Pediatrics, Saskatchewan Health Authority. “Physicians are extremely excited to be part of what we’ve built and the type of care we’ll deliver.”

About 60 pediatric specialists, sub-specialists and surgeons have already been recruited. Once opened, the hospital will be staffed with over 72 full-time physicians in more than 20 specialties.

Over the next few months, more than 77,000 pieces of equipment will be installed and tested, In addition to physicians, more than 2,400 employees will be trained prior to the doors opening.

Here are 10 incredible new elements found within the hospital:

1. 24-Hour Children’s Emergency:

The 176-bed Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital will feature the province’s only 24-hour children's emergency department with capacity to treat over 5,000 young patients each year.

2. Pediatric Surgical Suites and 3. Cath Lab

The ground floor will house Saskatchewan’s first dedicated pediatric surgical suites. These integrated rooms will include both an operative area and induction room, allowing parents to be with their child while anaesthesia is administered. This floor will also be home to the first pediatric catheterization lab in the province, which means that children will no longer need to travel out of province for minor heart procedures.

4. Pediatric Outpatients and 5. EOS

Pediatric Outpatients will feature three times more exam rooms than what exists today. Cardiology, cancer, speech and language, hearing, and psychiatry services will be offered, along with the radically new diagnostic EOS treatment that will use ninetimes less radiation than a standard x-ray.

6. Short-Term Child-Minding

With family-centred care in mind, a short-term child-minding space will be available free of charge for siblings so that parents can focus on their child’s medical appointment.

7. New Pediatric Treatment Options

New treatment options will also be available for children with the first dedicated Pediatric Hemodialysis Room in the province and Saskatchewan’s first Pediatric Sleep Lab, which will mean children no longer need to travel out of province for sleep studies.

8. Family-Friendly Spaces

The main floor will be home to Garth Brooks’ Teammates for Kids Child Life Zone, one of 11 zones across North America and the first of its kind in Canada. The Zone will be a special place to play, learn, laugh and relax. Other special spaces include an outdoor patient play area and teen lounge. A theatre for young patients will also provide a welcome distraction with movies and events.

9. NICU Privacy

Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) will offer each baby and family a private room with dedicated family spaces and sleep areas nearby in a design that is dramatically different than what exists today, where fragile babies are cared for in side-by-side open bays.

10. Single Room Maternal Care

Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital will also be home to Canada’s largest Single Room Maternal Care Centre, an innovative new model of care where moms-to-be labour, give birth and stay with their new baby in the same private room. In another first for Saskatchewan, the floor will feature three dedicated maternal operating rooms, plus a Prenatal Unit and Maternal Outpatient Clinic with a High Risk Fetal Assessment Unit.

You Are Making This Possible!

“An incredible amount of work, fundraising and dedication has been accomplished to reach this milestone. The people of Saskatchewan deserve recognition for making this possible,” said Brynn Boback-Lane, President and CEO of Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital Foundation. “We are very proud to be part of such a monumental facility that will benefit Saskatchewan moms, children and families. It is a great moment for maternal and pediatric health care in our province and this Foundation will continue to support Jim Pattison Children’s Hospital for the generations of families that will benefit from its care.”

Together we have raised $68 million towards a goal of a minimum of $75 million. To donate, please visit wearesaskatchewan.ca.