Rappahannock General Hospital at 101 Harris Road in Kilmarnock after renovations made as part of a $15 million project from 2021 to 2023. (Photo courtesy of Bon Secours)
Bon Secours has kept busy in recent days as it nears completion on a construction project at one of its hospitals and hands off another facility in the region.
At its Rappahannock General Hospital in the Northern Neck, the health system has largely finished a $15 million expansion and renovation project.
Construction finished in late February on an overhaul of Rappahannock General’s emergency department, converting it into a 10-bed unit with private rooms after previously featuring eight semi-private beds.
The hospital upgrades also included a new main entrance, lobby and cafe. Those three elements of the project were completed last year.
Final steps of the overall project are expected to be completed in early Q2 of this year, a Bon Secours spokeswoman said. The project broke ground in April 2021. W.M. Jordan Co. is the general contractor and Hummel Associates the architect.
Funding for the Rappahannock project is being covered by a community fundraising campaign, which exceeded its original goal by $3 million and stood at around $18 million raised as of last month. Bon Secours decided to increase the campaign’s goal to a new objective of $20 million to do more projects at the hospital.
“It’s humbling from my standpoint because that shows how strongly the community supports Rappahannock General,” hospital Vice President Administrator Alan Bailey said. “We have several other projects not quite shovel ready but we’re working on them.”
Those additional projects include renovations to the hospital’s outpatient infusion center, behavioral health unit and chapel.
Bon Secours bought Rappahannock General in 2014. That same year, the hospital received a large donation from the estate of Marvin Camp that would serve as the foundation of the future fundraising effort for the first major renovation project at the hospital since it opened in the late 1970s.
Ann Carpin
“We didn’t launch the campaign until 2021. That was a significant amount of time but through that there was a lot of planning going into it,” Bon Secours Richmond Foundation President Ann Carpin said. “We had some funds but we really wanted to do something that would make a significant change for the facility and be something the community needed.”
A second large gift received in 2021 from the estate of Faye Hannum served as the catalyst to kick off this latest campaign. It officially launched with a total $12.5 million already in hand thanks to the Camp and Hannum gifts.
Carpin credited the campaign’s success to the local community’s long-running support for the hospital, and noted that some supporters of the current campaign were involved in the establishment of the hospital decades ago.
“There are many people who have supported Rappahannock General before they joined Bon Secours, so we let them know through word of mouth and calling them and having stories in the local paper there. People started giving, they really wanted to be a part of it,” Carpin said.
Carpin anticipated the campaign would wrap up in 2023. She said there continues to be interest by locals who live in the retirement and vacation community in supporting the hospital’s upgrades.
“A lot of times it’s hard to raise the final number but I think our goal is to have it completed this year,” she said. “There are folks who aren’t there year-round, so it takes a little longer in a community like that.”
Bon Secours is also planning a $5 million HVAC replacement project in portions of the hospital, which is expected to be funded by Bon Secours and would be separate from the community philanthropic campaign, Bailey said.
Bon Secours hadn’t selected a general contractor for the HVAC project as of late February.
Rappahannock General is at 101 Harris Road in Kilmarnock. The hospital is about 96,000 square feet and has a total of 35 beds, which includes 10 behavioral health beds.
Chester emergency center changes hands
The Bon Secours Chester Emergency Center. (Image courtesy of Bon Secours)
The Rappahannock General project wraps up as Bon Secours has handed off ownership of its emergency center at 12021 Route 1 in Chester.
An LLC tied to Bon Secours sold the property for $20.3 million to an entity tied to Chicago-based Remedy Medical Properties, according to Chesterfield’s online land records. The deal was recorded with the county in early March.
Though the property is under new ownership, Bon Secours plans to continue to operate its emergency center on the site as a tenant, a Bon Secours spokeswoman confirmed in an email.
“We can confirm that this will not impact our operations or any of the emergency or imaging services currently offered,” the spokeswoman said.
The property was most recently valued at $9.5 million. Bon Secours said it spent $25.6 million to build the emergency center, which opened last year. It paid about $2 million to acquire the property in 2021, according to online records.
Remedy calls itself the largest owner of healthcare facilities in the United States. Its website states the company’s portfolio includes properties in more than 40 states, including Virginia.
It was unclear whether the Chester emergency center was Remedy’s first Richmond-area acquisition. Remedy didn’t respond to requests for comment last week.
Rappahannock General Hospital at 101 Harris Road in Kilmarnock after renovations made as part of a $15 million project from 2021 to 2023. (Photo courtesy of Bon Secours)
Bon Secours has kept busy in recent days as it nears completion on a construction project at one of its hospitals and hands off another facility in the region.
At its Rappahannock General Hospital in the Northern Neck, the health system has largely finished a $15 million expansion and renovation project.
Construction finished in late February on an overhaul of Rappahannock General’s emergency department, converting it into a 10-bed unit with private rooms after previously featuring eight semi-private beds.
The hospital upgrades also included a new main entrance, lobby and cafe. Those three elements of the project were completed last year.
Final steps of the overall project are expected to be completed in early Q2 of this year, a Bon Secours spokeswoman said. The project broke ground in April 2021. W.M. Jordan Co. is the general contractor and Hummel Associates the architect.
Funding for the Rappahannock project is being covered by a community fundraising campaign, which exceeded its original goal by $3 million and stood at around $18 million raised as of last month. Bon Secours decided to increase the campaign’s goal to a new objective of $20 million to do more projects at the hospital.
“It’s humbling from my standpoint because that shows how strongly the community supports Rappahannock General,” hospital Vice President Administrator Alan Bailey said. “We have several other projects not quite shovel ready but we’re working on them.”
Those additional projects include renovations to the hospital’s outpatient infusion center, behavioral health unit and chapel.
Bon Secours bought Rappahannock General in 2014. That same year, the hospital received a large donation from the estate of Marvin Camp that would serve as the foundation of the future fundraising effort for the first major renovation project at the hospital since it opened in the late 1970s.
Ann Carpin
“We didn’t launch the campaign until 2021. That was a significant amount of time but through that there was a lot of planning going into it,” Bon Secours Richmond Foundation President Ann Carpin said. “We had some funds but we really wanted to do something that would make a significant change for the facility and be something the community needed.”
A second large gift received in 2021 from the estate of Faye Hannum served as the catalyst to kick off this latest campaign. It officially launched with a total $12.5 million already in hand thanks to the Camp and Hannum gifts.
Carpin credited the campaign’s success to the local community’s long-running support for the hospital, and noted that some supporters of the current campaign were involved in the establishment of the hospital decades ago.
“There are many people who have supported Rappahannock General before they joined Bon Secours, so we let them know through word of mouth and calling them and having stories in the local paper there. People started giving, they really wanted to be a part of it,” Carpin said.
Carpin anticipated the campaign would wrap up in 2023. She said there continues to be interest by locals who live in the retirement and vacation community in supporting the hospital’s upgrades.
“A lot of times it’s hard to raise the final number but I think our goal is to have it completed this year,” she said. “There are folks who aren’t there year-round, so it takes a little longer in a community like that.”
Bon Secours is also planning a $5 million HVAC replacement project in portions of the hospital, which is expected to be funded by Bon Secours and would be separate from the community philanthropic campaign, Bailey said.
Bon Secours hadn’t selected a general contractor for the HVAC project as of late February.
Rappahannock General is at 101 Harris Road in Kilmarnock. The hospital is about 96,000 square feet and has a total of 35 beds, which includes 10 behavioral health beds.
Chester emergency center changes hands
The Bon Secours Chester Emergency Center. (Image courtesy of Bon Secours)
The Rappahannock General project wraps up as Bon Secours has handed off ownership of its emergency center at 12021 Route 1 in Chester.
An LLC tied to Bon Secours sold the property for $20.3 million to an entity tied to Chicago-based Remedy Medical Properties, according to Chesterfield’s online land records. The deal was recorded with the county in early March.
Though the property is under new ownership, Bon Secours plans to continue to operate its emergency center on the site as a tenant, a Bon Secours spokeswoman confirmed in an email.
“We can confirm that this will not impact our operations or any of the emergency or imaging services currently offered,” the spokeswoman said.
The property was most recently valued at $9.5 million. Bon Secours said it spent $25.6 million to build the emergency center, which opened last year. It paid about $2 million to acquire the property in 2021, according to online records.
Remedy calls itself the largest owner of healthcare facilities in the United States. Its website states the company’s portfolio includes properties in more than 40 states, including Virginia.
It was unclear whether the Chester emergency center was Remedy’s first Richmond-area acquisition. Remedy didn’t respond to requests for comment last week.