El Camino Health has wrapped up a $149 million renovation and expansion of its Women’s Hospital at the Orchard Pavilion on the Mountain View campus, unveiling new private maternity and neonatal spaces that put families and clinical care at the center. The revamped three-story building pulls the hospital’s mother-baby services into one modern pavilion that houses labor-and-delivery, postpartum care and an upgraded neonatal intensive care unit under a single roof.
The Orchard Pavilion project brings the Women’s Hospital to 19 labor-and-delivery rooms and caps a four-year, phased construction schedule that kept the Mountain View campus fully operational the entire time. As reported by Silicon Valley Business Journal, work finished this summer boosts both maternal and neonatal capacity across the hospital.
Family-first design and new services
El Camino has dubbed the overhaul a “Family First” redesign, and the new layout leans hard into that promise. The hospital added private NICU family suites that let parents stay with their infants around the clock, a dedicated obstetric emergency room so patients are not shuffled through the general ER, and antepartum rooms with customizable noise and light levels intended to ease stress for parents before delivery.
Construction partners and capacity gains
Contractor Truebeck converted the existing three-story structure into more than 210,000 square feet devoted to women’s services, including a NICU with 19 private rooms and an expanded maternity unit with 26 beds, according to Truebeck Construction. The company and its design partners stressed careful phasing and strict safety measures so the hospital could stay open and continue caring for patients while construction crews were on site.
Why it matters for local patients
El Camino Health delivered more than 4,800 babies in 2023, a figure that helps explain why the expanded Orchard Pavilion was on the hospital’s priority list. The hospital board first approved the $149 million project in March 2021, laying out a phased plan to enlarge labor-and-delivery, postpartum and NICU capacity, according to a March 2021 press release.
Completion of the Orchard Pavilion is the latest milestone at the Mountain View campus as El Camino pursues a broader round of upgrades across the South Bay, and the system has also floated a proposal for a more than $1 billion replacement of its Los Gatos hospital. Leaders say the finished pavilion is meant to serve as a long-term investment in maternal and neonatal care for the region. DOTmed reported on the Los Gatos plan.
