FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
The hospital has 611 licensed beds. The facility is made up of the hospital building, the Pavilion, the Boswell Building, the Blake Wilbur Building and an outpatient psychiatry unit. Other medical buildings independent of the hospital stand nearby. The medical staff numbers 1850, including 493 full-time physicians (who also serve on the SU faculty), and together they operate in about 100 different speciality fields of medical practice.
The hospital's history began with the foundation of the Stanford Home for Convalescent Children in 1911. When the Medical School moved south from San Francisco in 1959, the hospital was established and was co-owned with Palo Alto. It was then known as Palo Alto-Stanford Hospital Center, until it was purchased by the University in 1968 and renamed. The Beckman Center for Molecular and Genetic Medicine opened in 1989; the Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford opened in 1991; the Richard M. Lucas Center for Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Imaging opened in 1992.
The Stanford School of Medicine is a premier research-intensive institution that improves health through collaborative discoveries and innovation in patient care, education and research.
Stanford Hospital and Clinics is known worldwide for its state-of-the-art care in cardiovascular medicine and surgery, cancer diagnosis and treatment, organ transplantation, neurology and neurosurgery, and complex surgery.
Lucile Packard Children's Hospital at Stanford is a 256-bed hospital that is devoted entirely to the care of children and expectant mothers.
Stanford has a reputation among students as being a relaxed, fun-loving, warm-weather alternative to the Ivy League schools of the east coast, yet is often called the "Harvard of the West".
StanfordUniversity is govered by a board of trustees, in conjuction with the university president and provosts and the deans of the various schools.
Stanford is the university behind Folding@home, one of the most widely disseminated distributed computing projects in the life sciences field, allowing hobbyists and enthusiasts to participate in scientific research by donating unused computer processor cycles.
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