Building
Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital is replacing all of its inpatient care facilities at an estimated cost of more than $700 million. The new hospital’s healing environment will feature natural light, increased green space and environmentally sensitive elements. Its award-winning architectural design will be both patient- and family-friendly and representative of the Spanish Colonial style for which the community is so well known.
The new SBCH will feature
- 337 spacious rooms
- increased privacy
- numerous meditation areas and gardens, including a “River of Life” flowing through the central gardens
- tripled capacity in the Level II Trauma Center/Emergency Department
- air ambulance services
- consolidated pediatric services in Cottage Children’s Hospital, including a Pediatric Multi-Specialty Clinic
- larger, state-of-the-art operating suites, with minimally invasive and robotic surgical services
- sophisticated imaging and other diagnostic technologies
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