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Design for Healing - The Campaign for the New University Medical Center atPrinceton seeks to raise $115 million in support of the new, $441 millionstate-of-the-art hospital to be built in Plainsboro, New Jersey, inreplacement of UMCP's current Princeton facility.
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Design for Healing - The Campaign for the New University Medical Center atPrinceton will support three areas. A total of $100 million will go toward theconstruction of the new hospital building. An additional $10 million will beallocated to support specific programmatic requests of donors. The remaining$5 million will be for unrestricted programmatic needs.
The campaign began its "nucleus" phase in early 2006 with outreach tovolunteers, long-time donors and other known supporters of the hospital. Atotal of $76 million has been raised to date as a result of those efforts,putting the campaign two-thirds of the way toward achieving its goal.
The new hospital, scheduled to open in 2011, is poised to dramaticallyreshape the institution founded in 1919, as well as the delivery of healthcarein Central New Jersey.
The move to Plainsboro will see University Medical Center at Princeton(UMCP) trade its current nine-acre Princeton location, which is bounded byresidences, for an expansive 50-acre site within a 158-acre health campus witheasy access to U.S. Route One.
Healthcare experts agree that the way a hospital is designed and builtdirectly impacts the care provided patients. The new UMCP will incorporate themost current thinking and best practices in healthcare design, resulting in afacility that enhances patient safety, helps eliminate medical errors, reducesinfections and improves clinical outcomes.
Design features include an abundance of natural light; spacious andflexible operating rooms to accommodate robotics and other emergingtechnologies; single patient rooms that help reduce infection and maximizepatient privacy, with amenities such as wireless Internet access, room-dedicated ventilation and temperature control systems and room service dining;and a broad spectrum of energy and resource-conservation innovations that willmake the new UMCP one of the most environmentally-advanced hospitals in thenation.
The hospital's site plan is currently under review by Plainsboro Township.Hospital leaders hope to break ground later this summer.
SOURCE Princeton HealthCare System Foundation
