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Children's Hospital of Saskatchewan
Hospital Design & Construction
Saskatoon Health Region is building a facility that will serve this province for decades to come and we want to make sure we do it right. That means taking the time to design it in a way that will ensure patients and families have the best experience possible and staff and physicians have what they need to provide the best care possible.
To just get to the point where we have blueprints for contractors to build – we have a lot of work to do. What is even more important is we want the design to support improved care and reduced waiting for you and your family. We call that continous improvement work – or lean – and that work is critical .
To find out more about how we build a maternal and children's hospital for Saskatchewan, select a topic to view or scroll down to view them all:
Lean (Continuous Improvement) - ONGOING
Lean is basically about getting the right things to the right place, at the right time, in the right quantities while minimizing waste and being flexible and open to change. It is centred on improving the patient experience.
Since November 2010, we have been incorporating this work as part of early design. We spent time walking through the patient’s experience from the moment they enter the hospital to the moment they leave. We challenged ourselves by asking, “How can we make that experience better? How can we shorten patients and families travel distances, along with staff and physicians.” We looked at each service individually, and then we looked at how all services will work together in the new facility.
From this work, we came up with short and long term recommendations to improve the flow of service and care delivery and minimize the distances traveled. Some of these recommendations resulted in enhancements to the early design floor plans for the hospital. Examples included increasing diagnostic imaging capacity and standardizing the size of operating rooms. These were endorsed by the CHS steering committee.
The work now underway for Children’s Hospital of Saskatchewan is focused even more on heavily incorporating lean methodology and will help us with our next evolution of early design (schematic) floor plans.
You can learn more of where we are through our latest design updates and videos.
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Schematic Design - CURRENT PHASE
Design is an evolutionary process and it takes time, if you want to do it right. Since September 2010, the project team has been working with staff, families and physicians to create the initial designs, in conjunction with the process improvement work.
Schematic design is about determining where services will go in the building and what services need to be located next to each other (i.e. labour and delivery and maternal operating rooms). It’s also about determining the right size for each of these services and the building.
We have already had five sessions involving 17 groups and more than 200 people to help create the initial designs.
Each session resulted in our architects getting valuable feedback, evolving and improving early work and returning back to the groups for further review.
Also, in parallel to these early design sessions, we spent time working through how we can improve our processes using lean methodology.
All this work will result in an early design of the building that best supports improved care and service.
At the end of schematic design, our architects will take these evolving designs and come up with an overall site plan, basic floor plans, and drawings of the basic structure, heating, and air conditioning systems.
You can learn more about schematic design by looking at this presentation which was given at one of the early workshops.
You can also see what these early workshops looked like by watching this video.
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Design Development - Spring 2012 to end of 2012
We take the overall plans created in schematic design and get into the details. This phase called design development will require the most intensive staff, physician and patient, family and public participation.
Using our overall site and floor plans, we will be asking staff and physicians questions such as“What do they need to work in each space?” to “Where should everything be placed from medical equipment to supplies”
We will be relying on patients, families and the public to help us decide how a room should be laid out. We will be asking questions such as “Where do you think the bed be?” to “Where should the parent’s bed be?" to "What kind of furniture do you need?”
We will be holding sessions with patients, families, public, staff and physicians during this phase. Again, we will evolve the detail in the design after each session and bring those back for even more feedback.
In parallel, we will continue to do more work on improved service delivery and consider how this will fit into the details of the new building.
At the end, we will have the final site plan, the final floor plans, furniture plans, and that long awaited picture of what this facility will actually look like in its final state.
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Construction Documents - Late 2012 to 2013
We take all these plans and prepare the construction documents. These are the “blueprint” drawings and specifications needed for a contractor to actually build the facility. These will be ready by 2013, though you will start to see activity on the site before then.
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Hospital Construction - Late 2013 to Late 2016
Construction of the new hospital will be underway. However, you will see activity earlier to prepare the existing site for construction including work related to parking and traffic flow.
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