Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt Begins Construction on Expansion

Construction is underway at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee, for a planned four-floor expansion that will advance the size and scope of the hospital’s comprehensive array of specialty and subspecialty pediatric healthcare programs.

The additional space will be built over a 30-month period to provide the necessary square footage to meet the future healthcare needs of the children and families

Rendering of the new construction at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt, Nashville, Tennessee.

from Tennessee, the surrounding region and across the nation. Once fully completed, all four floors of new construction will add 160,000 square feet of additional space atop the hospital’s existing structure, bringing Children’s Hospital’s total footprint to over 1 million square feet.

The facility’s expansion is being supported by the “Growing to New Heights” campaign, a three-year, $40-million fundraising effort that will help cover the total construction cost of more than $100 million. To support the campaign, every member of the Children’s Hospital Board contributed.

The first two floors to be completed will provide approximately 80,000 square feet of new patient care space and will include 76 critical and acute care beds for newborns and pediatric patients. The new space will also include family areas, a playroom, a large waiting room, educational space and patient consultation rooms.

The expansion was planned and designed by Donald Blair of Blair + Mui Dowd Architects of New York. Blair has served as planning architect for many of Vanderbilt’s patient care and research facilities. Turner construction has been hired to carry out the project.

Photo courtesy of Blair + Mui Dowd.