November 1, 2021 – Penn Medicine officially opened the doors of its$1.6 billion, 17-story future-ready Pavillion for the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) on Saturday.
The 1.5 million-square-foot building on Penn Medicine’s West Philadelphia campus, houses 504 private patient rooms and 47 operating rooms, and is an expanded footprint of HUP.
On opening day, clinical staff transported 347 patients from the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania (HUP) into the new facility.
The facility is the latest part of a connected medical campus, which includes HUP, the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine for outpatient care, and the Smilow Center for Translational Research. It is the largest capital project in the University of Pennsylvania’s history.
The Pavilion houses inpatient care for cardiology and cardiac surgery, medical and surgical oncology, neurology and neurosurgery, and transplant surgery, and it is home to HUP’s new emergency department.
The facility features a “reinvented emergency department, hybrid operating rooms, and an advanced epilepsy monitoring unit (EMU) and a human neurophysiology research lab.
IRIS — a 75-inch screen and smart board — installed in every patient room allows patients to review imaging and key information about their care with their physicians, nurses, and other providers. Through IRIS, patients also have greater control of their environment at their fingertips for lighting, shades, temperature, and more, so they can personalize the room to their comfort, the organization says.