PICU Courtyard Project

Our courtyard in the John Hunter Health & Innovation Precinct will allow critically ill children to be taken outside with their families. 

Who the donation impacts?

The Paediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) will receive a newly built department as part of the John Hunter Health & Innovation Precinct.  

The PICU team have expressed a need for an external courtyard that would provide clinical care benefits to their patients. This is currently not in the scope of the JHHIP project and is not able to be funded as part of the project.

This will allow critically ill children to be taken outside with their families. 

 

Why it is important?

Our plan for an outdoor garden

The PICU Courtyard would include

  • External beds for 2 patients to allow for patient’s connection with nature, fresh air etc.
  • Medical Services Panel provisions will be the same as beds within the remainder of the PICU so that intensive care treatment can occur outside