The Niño Jesús Children’s Hospital, with almost a century and a half of history, will expand its facilities with a new pavilion of more than 9,300 square meters for consultation, teaching and research and four parking floors with 800 spaces for professionals and hospital users. The project has a cost of 21 million and will be carried out through a public-private collaboration system: the company that operates the parking lot, through an administrative concession for a maximum of 40 years, will take over the investment.
This was announced by regional president Isabel Díaz Ayuso during her visit to this hospital on Monday, in which she stressed that the reform will represent “zero cost for the Administration”. The works, which will expand the hospital facilities by a third – it currently has 28,000 square meters – will begin at the end of the year and will allow the spaces on the plot to be reorganized to gain green and recreational areas for pediatric patients.
The new interior parking lot, below ground level, was “a highly requested demand by families” given that the exterior is an area regulated by parking meters, and it is planned to eliminate the current parking lots on the surface, where until now only a few professionals from the center.
Díaz Ayuso has highlighted the importance of these new parking spaces thinking of families, given that it was “a historical demand” given the difficulties in finding a place on the street, so parents had to be aware of the change of ticket and with time limits.
The administrative concession contract for the operation of the underground parking, with a maximum duration of 40 years. This will reduce bidding terms by 60% and allow the pavilion to enter service within 30 months from its award.
The original 143-year-old building is being adapted and modernized to respond to the healthcare needs of pediatric patients and to meet future needs. Within this process, the regional Executive has decided to replace the building that is located at the back of the hospital compound, practically unused for decades due to architectural conditions, with a new three-floor pavilion where external consultations will be moved.
On the first floor will be the consultations of Pneumology, Nursing, Neurology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Stomatology, Cardiology, the Oncology area (consultations and day hospital) and Digestive Diseases. Otorhinolaryngology will be enabled on the second floor; Anesthesia and Reanimation, Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Plastic Surgery, Pediatric Surgery, Nursing, the General Surgical Cabinet, Urology, Neurosurgery, Dermatology, as well as the Research Foundation and the area of Clinical Trials.
Finally, on the ground floor will be located Teaching, auditorium, Occupational Health; Patient Care, Social Work and Social Pediatrics, Pediatrics, the blood bank and extractions, Nursing consultations, Palliative, Neurophysiology, the area of Psychiatry (consultations and day hospitals), Genetics, Hematology and Psychology.
Of the 800 spaces in the new car park, 320 will be for professionals. The building will have three different entrances: access to the underground parking and restricted wheeled access for unloading of material, kitchen and emergency vehicles; the main access to the ambulatory building and the independent access to the teaching and psychiatry areas.
The Governing Council initially plans to approve at its meeting this week the agreement authorizing the conclusion, by open procedure with multiple criteria, of the administrative concession contract for the works.
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