By the Numbers: The Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Sacred Heart

The hospital, expected to open in 2019, is being built in front of the existing 117-bed Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital

Sacred Heart Health System in Pensacola is expanding its commitment to children’s health with the addition of a new four-story pediatric facility to be known as The Studer Family Children’s Hospital.

The hospital, expected to open in 2019, is being built in front of the existing 117-bed Sacred Heart Children’s Hospital, which annually serves more than 35,000 patients from Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It is the only hospital in Northwest Florida dedicated exclusively to children.

$85 Million is the cost of the new Studer Family Children’s Hospital

$30 Million is the community’s contribution to cost

72 Level II and III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit rooms

30 Medical/surgical patient rooms included in project

28 Physicians’ specialties represented at existing children’s hospital

12 Pediatric oncology rooms

10 Pediatric Intensive Care Unit rooms