Flower delivery to
Children's Hospital Zurich

The Zurich Children's Hospital in Zurich-Hottingen is the largest center for pediatrics and child surgery in Switzerland. It employs around 2,500 people, offers around 230 beds and looks after almost 8,500 inpatients and around 40,000 outpatients every year. On behalf of the university, it also trains doctors and nurses in pediatric medicine and pediatric surgery. The Zurich Children's Hospital is sponsored by the Eleonorenstiftung, a private, non-profit foundation that has existed since 1868. Delegates from the Government Council of the Canton of Zurich and the Zurich City Council are also represented on the Board of Trustees.

The children's hospital - now located in Zurich-Hottingen - has suffered from very limited space for years. So that the hospital can continue to fulfill its service mandate in the future and ensure security of care for children and young people, the foundation has been planning to build a new building in Zurich-Lengg for some time. In January 2009, at the request of the children's hospital, the government council of the Canton of Zurich set the course for the construction of a new building on two areas in the Zurich-Lengg area between the Balgrist University Hospital and the Zurich Psychiatric University Hospital. The canton transfers land to the foundation for its needs and in return receives the land for the children's hospital in Hottingen.

The Basel architects Herzog & de Meuron were awarded the contract to plan the building. Construction was scheduled to begin in 2018; the groundbreaking ceremony took place in 2018. There were construction delays due to the Covid19 pandemic; The move into the new building is planned for 2024.