Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital Pediatric Clinics

The clinic encompasses several floors of Tower 35 directly across from the hospital and accessible by a skybridge. It includes minor procedure rooms, dialysis labs, sleep labs, lab draw areas, imaging/x-ray rooms, and doctors’ offices.

Significant planning and coordination was necessary to ensure that the pediatric clinics’ systems were compatible with the core and shell of the tower. Corewell Health uses a pneumatic tube system, similar to what is found in a bank drive-through, to transfer specimens from the children’s hospital to the labs and clinics across the street. Tower 35 itself houses a maze of pneumatic tubes to transfer specimens to various areas within.

The tower in which the pediatric clinics are located also houses Corewell Health’s consolidated lab among other clinical and lab spaces. Careful logistical planning, attention to detail and scheduling allowed minimal disruptions to the occupied areas of the tower, public elevators, corridors and connector bridge to the children’s hospital.