Parham Doctors Hospital: Parham Doctors Hospital now includes the Center for Emotional Growth. (Photo by Brandy Brubraker.)
Two local healthcare rivals unveiled their latest creations this month.
Bon Secours Virginia entered the local urgent-care market with a facility in Glen Allen, while HCA Virginia opened an inpatient behavioral-care unit at Parham Doctors’ Hospital. The new facilities are part of continued investment and construction around the region by the two organizations.
Bon Secours last week unveiled Bon Secours Good Health Express at 9851 Brook Road near Virginia Center Commons.
Kevin Barr, CEO of Bon Secours Virginia Ambulatory Services, said the location was chosen for its proximity to Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville. The hospital, which sits about six miles from Good Health Express, has the busiest emergency department among Bon Secours’ local hospitals, he said.
“It will decant the pressure on that hospital’s emergency department,” Barr said. It is also an affordable alternative to emergency room care, he said.
Bon Secours opened Good Health Express recently near Virginia Center Commons. (Photo by Brandy Brubraker.)
The 6,500-square-foot urgent-care center is staffed with family practice and internal medicine physicians, as well as physicians trained in emergency care. It offers radiation and laboratory services and can treat patients with chronic ailments and routine health issues. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Bon Secours is leasing the building on Brook Road. It has hired Woolfolk Construction and Odell Associates, both of Richmond, to get it ready for urgent-care use. Barr declined to say how much the work cost.
Barr said Bon Secours doesn’t have any other locations for Good Health Express picked out for the time being. But the organization is building a freestanding emergency room in Short Pump, just one of several planned projects.
The nonprofit also has a deal in the works to acquire a hospital in Kilmarnock.
Several miles away from Good Health Express, HCA Virginia officially opened the doors of its Center for Emotional Growth at Parham Doctors’ Hospital.
The $2-million unit has 24 beds and offers inpatient behavioral-health care.
The project was paid for by the for-profit healthcare group’s internal capital funding, said Beth Matish, chief operating officer of Parham Doctors’ Hospital.
“We saw a need in our community that we could fill,” she said.
The center treats patients brought to the ER in police custody who are having a mental-health emergency, the hospital said. Those who needed further treatment were then transferred to Tucker Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital, which offers inpatient behavioral-health treatment. With the opening of the Center for Emotional Growth, those patients can now be treated in-house.
“It was a very logical extension of work that we were already doing,” Matish said.
The 10,000-square-foot unit is located on the hospital’s fifth floor. Taylor & Parrish of Richmond served as general contractor. Stengel-Hill, a specialty firm from Knoxville, Tenn., was the project’s architect.
HCA also has its own freestanding emergency room in the works. Hanover Emergency Center in Mechanicsville will be a department of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
On the Southside, the company is planning a new $4.5 million unit at Tucker Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital.
Parham Doctors Hospital: Parham Doctors Hospital now includes the Center for Emotional Growth. (Photo by Brandy Brubraker.)
Two local healthcare rivals unveiled their latest creations this month.
Bon Secours Virginia entered the local urgent-care market with a facility in Glen Allen, while HCA Virginia opened an inpatient behavioral-care unit at Parham Doctors’ Hospital. The new facilities are part of continued investment and construction around the region by the two organizations.
Bon Secours last week unveiled Bon Secours Good Health Express at 9851 Brook Road near Virginia Center Commons.
Kevin Barr, CEO of Bon Secours Virginia Ambulatory Services, said the location was chosen for its proximity to Memorial Regional Medical Center in Mechanicsville. The hospital, which sits about six miles from Good Health Express, has the busiest emergency department among Bon Secours’ local hospitals, he said.
“It will decant the pressure on that hospital’s emergency department,” Barr said. It is also an affordable alternative to emergency room care, he said.
Bon Secours opened Good Health Express recently near Virginia Center Commons. (Photo by Brandy Brubraker.)
The 6,500-square-foot urgent-care center is staffed with family practice and internal medicine physicians, as well as physicians trained in emergency care. It offers radiation and laboratory services and can treat patients with chronic ailments and routine health issues. It is open daily from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Bon Secours is leasing the building on Brook Road. It has hired Woolfolk Construction and Odell Associates, both of Richmond, to get it ready for urgent-care use. Barr declined to say how much the work cost.
Barr said Bon Secours doesn’t have any other locations for Good Health Express picked out for the time being. But the organization is building a freestanding emergency room in Short Pump, just one of several planned projects.
The nonprofit also has a deal in the works to acquire a hospital in Kilmarnock.
Several miles away from Good Health Express, HCA Virginia officially opened the doors of its Center for Emotional Growth at Parham Doctors’ Hospital.
The $2-million unit has 24 beds and offers inpatient behavioral-health care.
The project was paid for by the for-profit healthcare group’s internal capital funding, said Beth Matish, chief operating officer of Parham Doctors’ Hospital.
“We saw a need in our community that we could fill,” she said.
The center treats patients brought to the ER in police custody who are having a mental-health emergency, the hospital said. Those who needed further treatment were then transferred to Tucker Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital, which offers inpatient behavioral-health treatment. With the opening of the Center for Emotional Growth, those patients can now be treated in-house.
“It was a very logical extension of work that we were already doing,” Matish said.
The 10,000-square-foot unit is located on the hospital’s fifth floor. Taylor & Parrish of Richmond served as general contractor. Stengel-Hill, a specialty firm from Knoxville, Tenn., was the project’s architect.
HCA also has its own freestanding emergency room in the works. Hanover Emergency Center in Mechanicsville will be a department of Henrico Doctors’ Hospital.
On the Southside, the company is planning a new $4.5 million unit at Tucker Pavilion at Chippenham Hospital.