Renewal Project

The Renewal Project is rebuilding and modernizing its facilities that are the foundation of our community’s healthcare services. The primary community benefit of the Renewal Project is providing safe, modern hospitals with adequate capacity for patient care. The Medical Center project includes a renovation of the Hoover Pavilion building and the ultimate addition of a medical office building at the Hoover Pavilion site, the upgrade and relocation of the Welch Road utilities, the expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, the replacement of Stanford Hospital & Clinics and a one-for-one replacement of some of the School of Medicine’s wet laboratory buildings.

Like other acute care hospitals in California, Stanford Hospital must meet strict new seismic safety standards established by Senate Bill 1953 or risk loss of its license. In addition, the Hospital is undersized and no longer meets the needs of the community. Last year, because Stanford Hospital has not kept pace with the region’s growing healthcare needs, 500 adult patients had to seek care elsewhere and 950 visitors to the Emergency Department left before they could be seen. Stanford needs larger, more modern facilities to meet capacity, accommodate new medical technologies and adopt the new hospital standard of single-patient rooms.

After four years and nearly 100 public meetings, the Palo Alto City Council voted unanimously on June 6, 2011, to certify the Final Environmental Impact Report, grant land use approvals and execute a Development Agreement with Stanford Hospital & Clinics, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and Stanford University, thereby completing the legislative actions needed to approve the Renewal Project.

Site work for the Hoover Pavilion Modernization Project and utility relocation along Hoover & Quarry Roads is scheduled to commence in August 2011.

The last stages of the project, the expansion of Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital and the rebuild of the New Stanford Hospital & Clinics, are expected to be completed in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

Yes. In order to ensure that our community’s healthcare needs are being met, both Stanford Hospital & Clinics and Packard Children’s Hospital will remain open and fully operational during construction. The original 1959 and 1973 portions of the adult Hospital will be demolished after the new Hospital opens.

The estimated cost for the Medical Center’s Renewal Project is approximately $5 billion.

Three office buildings will be affected by the Renewal Project. The Stanford University Medical Center has been working with the healthcare professionals at 1101 Welch, 701 Welch and 703 Welch regarding opportunities to relocate to renovated medical office space in the region.