Perched at one mile above sea level, The Children’s Hospital in Denver, Colorado has been faced with the need to grow beyond what its current location can accommodate. The result is a new state-of-theart facility due to open in October 2007 that features a bright, warm atmosphere among more than 6 million feet of network cabling, 100 percent wireless capability, an integrated paging system, and sophisticated technology deliverable at the bedside – all of which started with a strategy and thought process that focused on convergence and delivering the best technology possible | CASE STUDY Perched at one mile above sea level The Children s Hospital in Denver Colorado has been faced with the need to grow beyond what its current location can accommodate. The result is a new state-of-the-art facility due to open in October 2007 that features a bright warm atmosphere among more than 6 million feet of network cabling 100 percent wireless capability an integrated paging system and sophisticated technology deliverable at the bedside - all of which started with a strategy and thought process that focused on convergence and delivering the best technology possible. Starting with a blank slate Founded in 1908 The Children s Hospital . org in downtown Denver is a private not-for-profit pediatric healthcare network with more than 1 000 pediatric specialists and many nationally and internationally recognized medical programs. Children s has always strived to provide the best healthcare for children and be a place that parents can trust. That aspiration ranks the hospital as one of the top ten best children s hospitals by . News World Report and Child Magazine. Over the years Children s has expanded in its current location through remodeling and several additions. When faced with the need to grow even more the hospital thought long and hard about one thing What s best for kids The answer to that question was to build a brand new facility from the ground up in Aurora located just nine miles east of the current site. CASE STUDY Building a new hospital provides one location for care research and education. It also provides a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to start with a blank slate and carefully consider the design of every space to deliver the most effective health care to patients and families. . A key component to building a better hospital is building a better network cabling infrastructure to support the latest technology. Because the existing hospital had been added on to so many times we had a mishmash of Category 3 .
