Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford
1 PagesOrganization Background Opened as a 302-bed hospital in 1991, the Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is both nationally ranked and internationally recognized, and is the heart and soul of Stanford Children’s Health. The hospital is devoted to pediatrics and obstetrics and the original building has six centers dedicated to providing comprehensive services in key obstetric and pediatric areas: brain and behavior, cancer, heart, pregnancy and newborn, pulmonary and transplant. It relies on an army of 700 volunteers – most of whom are either elderly retirees or from the University’s population of aspiring and current medical students – to help in carrying out its mission. Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford is dramatically expanding and opening a new hospital in Decemb
