PALO ALTO, Calif. (KCBS) -- Stanford Hospital on Monday unveiled designs for a new wing of Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and for a new facility to replace the existing hospital building that officials said cannot be retrofitted to meet updated seismic standards.
Plans for the new Stanford Hospital include updated surgical, diagnostic and treatment rooms. The capacity of both facilities will be increased, with between 100 and 150 beds being added to each hospital, an expansion that must first be approved by the Palo Alto city council.
KCBS' Mike Colgan reports
City councilwoman Yoriko Kishimoto said housing and traffic would be the two major issues of concern.
“You don’t want major new projects to make the quality of life in Palo Alto worse. You don’t want to make major new projects lead to more greenhouse gas emissions.”
A state law adopted after the 1994 Northridge earthquake shut down several hospital for days mandates that all hospitals be seismically retrofitted to withstand TK magnitude quake by 2013.
Stanford hospital hopes to begin the first phase of construction by 2010.
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