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Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital
New Research Building Opens Door to Discovery
From certain angles, the windows of the new Johns Hopkins
hospital and the Outpatient Care Center, capturing the inclusive and
collaborative nature the structure is designed to promote.
unveiled during a ribbon cutting ceremony on September xx
on the hospital’s campus near downtown St. Petersburg. The
the community and featured St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Kriseman;
Dean Paul Rothman, M.D., the CEO of Johns Hopkins Medicine;
Kevin Sowers, president of the Johns Hopkins Health System;
Jonathan Ellen, M.D., president and vice dean of Johns Hopkins All
Children’s Hospital, and other dignitaries. Many community and
ceremony.
“It’s more than a building,” Ellen said. “This is a vision brought to life
by a community that we believe can change the world.”
The Research and Education Building houses the hospital’s
institutes, its graduate medical education and simulation programs,
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an expanded biorepository and a new team of fundamental
scientists who will seek to understand the origins of diseases and
how to prevent them.
“The capabilities we are creating in this building—and, more
important, the world-class physicians, surgeons, researchers and
out to do,” Ellen said, “which is to lead the country in discovery and
translational research that can lead to better health for children.”
Rothman says it all started with an integration of the hospital into
Johns Hopkins Medicine in 2011.
“I think back to the vision of the board of trustees of All Children’s
Hospital,” he says. “About 10 years ago, they decided they wanted
to make All Children’s one of the top academic children’s hospitals
in the country. That was a bold vision to think about what was
possible.”
The architecture includes “forum stairs” designed for sitting
collaborative areas to facilitate interaction. “We designed the
BY MIKE STEPHENSON
/StPeteLifeMag.com