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Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children
STILL GOING STRONG
ANN M. HURST
more than a tourist attraction. The grounds are also home to the Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
Since opening in 1940, Nemours has ventured far beyond the stone walls. Along
technicians to build a cardboard mockup in a warehouse. Parents also provided input. “They walked through and had some good suggestions about what did and did not feel good,” Hurst says.
Telemedicine is already part of Nemours’ IT initiative. The site also may benefit from remote check-ins via an app that’s in the pilot phase. “Hopefully, by the time the building opens, we can drop that technology right in,” Hurst says.
Construction on the Nemours Building is scheduled to start in late 2018. It will open in 2020.
Nemours has been on the move in other respects. Nemours Biomedical Research has leased two floors in Building 400 at the DuPont Experimental Station, which is adjacent to the Nemours/ Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children and the Nemours Estate.
The $200 million commitment involves the relocation of several labs and about 68 Nemours scientists, clinical investigators, post- doctorate fellows and support staff. Most of the labs and research programs have already relocated to the facility, which has 5,000 square feet of laboratory and office space. About 30 students
from the University of Delaware and other area universities will participate in research programs using these facilities. ID
with a hospital in Florida, there are primary care satellite offices in Delaware, Florida and Pennsylvania.
Nemours has specialty care locations in those states, as well as Georgia and New Jersey, and urgent care locations in Florida and Pennsylvania. But in Delaware, outpatient specialty-care services — such radiology, immunology and speech therapy — have only been available at the original hospital in Wilmington.
“Anyone below Milford or Dover has to drive a good distance to see our specialists at the hospital,” says ANN M. HURST, administrator of ambulatory operations for Nemours/Alfred I. duPont Hospital for Children.
The timing of Bayhealth’s new Sussex County campus in Milford was fortuitious. Nemours had already identified Milford as
an ideal location.
Nemours will occupy the first floor — about 35,000 square feet
Visitors to Nemours,
the chateau-style home
in Wilmington built by
industrialist and philanthropist
Alfred I. duPont, will likely
notice the imposing stone walls
that surround the sweeping
estate.Butthepropertyismuch Tocreatetheidealenvironment,Nemoursaskednursesand
— of a new 85,000-square-foot, three-story building planned for site, which will be named for Nemours. Bayhealth Hospital, Sussex Campus, is currently under construction on the site.
Nemours will also move its primary-care services to the new building.
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has evolved. We’re doing state-of-the-art work providing test results faster and in a more economical way for the customer.
Q: What are some of the product lines?
LK: ADVIA Chemistry, Dimension, Dimension Vista, Syva, Stratus C3 and OEM Products. The Atellica Solution is a [flexible, scalable, automation-ready solution for laboratory diagnostics with sample management and immunoassay and chemistry-analyzer components]. It’s innovative in taking the best of all of our product portfolios and putting them into one unified platform. It has patented technologies to move samples through the family of analyzers in a very quick and efficient manner. [The Glasgow facility manufacturers reagents and consumables for the Atellica portfolio.]
Q: Why is Delaware a good place for this business?
LK: I think Delaware is very favorable to business, and
manufacturing in particular. We collaborate with Delaware Technical Community College and the University of Delaware
to make sure they have a clear understanding of our needs. They’re attentive at making sure they’re developing personnel at all levels, from scientists to technicians of various types.
Q: What subjects should students study if they want to work at the Glasgow site?
LK: It’s a rather large spectrum, from engineering to biology to chemistry and biomedical science and biomedical engineering.
Q: As far as finding talent, is this a good area?
LK: Yes, the whole mid-Atlantic area is, from Philadelphia and Wilmington into New Jersey and down to Baltimore. There are a lot of biotechnology hubs. There are medical device and diagnostic-related plants like us. There are a lot of resources available. ID
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