{"id":550010,"date":"2026-03-20T23:29:21","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550010\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T23:29:21","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T23:29:21","slug":"edmonton-students-submit-designs-for-standalone-stollery-childrens-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/550010\/","title":{"rendered":"Edmonton students submit designs for standalone Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>Students in grades three and four at W\u00eehkw\u00eant\u00f4win School are making their dreams of what a standalone <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/stollery-childrens-hospital\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital<\/a> will look like into reality.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>From bright colours and plants, each of the designs is as unique as the students behind them.<\/p>\n<p>Originally, teachers said it was supposed to be a fundraiser for the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/stollery-children&#039;s-hospital-foundation\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation<\/a>, inspired by teacher Kara Weis, whose daughter was in the Stollery for 40 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt saved my daughter\u2019s life,\u201d Weis said. \u201cThe project morphed as we got involved with the foundation and they offered us an opportunity to take part in the new design of the new campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last fall, the Stollery foundation has launched it\u2019s most ambitious fundraising endeavor yet: the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stollerykids.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No Bounds<\/a> campaign, a multi-year fundraising initiative to raise $1-billion to help build the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11540951\/standalone-stollery-childrens-hospital-location\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">standalone children\u2019s hospital in south Edmonton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Site selected for stand-alone Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital in south Edmonton'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/NN_NEW_STOLLERY_UPDATE.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:17<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSite selected for stand-alone Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital in south Edmonton\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\tPrevious Video<\/p>\n<p>\t\tNext Video<\/p>\n<p>Planning is currently underway to determine the hospital\u2019s size\/space, service and infrastructure needs. That process is expected to wrap by the end of this year, after which more detailed plans for the future space will be released.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/healthiq.jpg\" alt=\"Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet weekly health news<\/p>\n<p>Receive the latest medical news and health information delivered to you every Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the design work, students met with experts \u2014 from doctors and nurses to architects.<\/p>\n<p>They created 3D models of patient rooms as well as blueprints of different units like the pediatric and neonatal intensive care spaces and oncology units, and each wrote a summary of why donations to the Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation are so important.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the ideas may be included in the new hospital design.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019m noticing is it\u2019s full of bright colors and things that would matter to kids,\u201d Cheryl Spencer-Morley from the Stollery Children\u2019s Hospital Foundation said.<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat I\u2019ve heard from the kids is, \u2018I\u2019m building a room that feels safe, that\u2019s colourful, that has nature, that has things that kids would enjoy.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>To learn more click the video above.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size Students in grades three and four at W\u00eehkw\u00eant\u00f4win School are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550011,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[49,48,84,72417,392,44,75940,182636],"class_list":["post-550010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-health-matters-edmonton","tag-healthcare","tag-news","tag-stollery-childrens-hospital","tag-stollery-childrens-hospital-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550011"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}