Opening in 2011, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital will be an ecologically friendly, 200+ bed, 227,000-square-foot facility that consolidates in one patient- and family-centered location the hospital’s 50 pediatric specialties. This new facility for mothers and children will ensure that you and your children have access to leading health care and new thinking – all in a world-class, state-of-the-art setting. As Minnesota’s only children’s hospital part of an academic health center, University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital is home to one of the nation’s top 20 pediatric research programs. Here, physicians and nurses not only deliver the latest innovations, they create them.

Learn more about Caroline Amplatz's gift and the new hospital's Adopt A Room program.

Masons Ceremony: October 2009

        
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The Minnesota Medical Foundation, and its affiliate the University Pediatrics Foundation, is raising funds to support this exciting new community asset. For more information, contact Jennifer Soderholm, associate vice president of development, at 612-273-8634 or j.soderholm@mmf.umn.edu.

Facts and Figures
The new University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital facility will contain: 

• 41.1 miles of pipe (equivalent to the distance from Minneapolis to Monticello)
• 176 miles of wire
• 75 miles of conduit
• 7,300 light fixtures
• 1,500+ light switches
• 330 clocks
• 214 tons of ductwork (equal to the weight of 91 full-size pick-up trucks)