In November 2008, we broke ground for a state-of-the-art pediatric hospital. On approximately a 1/2 acre piece of property adjacent to our current compound In Ouanaminthe, Haiti a three story, 31,000 square foot children's hospital with a basement is being built. The Danita's Children's Hospital of Hope will provide much needed life-giving healthcare and education to our children, and children in the surrounding region. The focus of the clinic will be pediatrics, centering on treatment, education, and prevention. The Danita's Children's Hospital of Hope is planned to provide:
? Ten treatment/examiniation rooms? Pediatric Dental Clinic? Laboratory? Pharmacy? Pediatric Optometry Clinic? Three hospital wards with 44 beds/cribs? A Surgical Center? Two isolation rooms for infectious disease? Efficiency living quarters for Clinic Manager? Two dormatory rooms to house medical mission teams (up to 20 people)? The third floor will provide facilities to house our medical staff and hospital mission teams.
Utilizing the combined skills of volunteer architects, engineers, medical professionals, doctors, construction experts and others (as seen in photograph) we have been working hard this year to complete the plans and work out all of the details. Bob Miller of R. Miller Architecture in Orlando has spearheaded the surveying, architectural plans and engineering efforts. You can imagine the enormity of a project this size - much more complicated than the construction of a school building and much more expensive.