Bon Secours is planning to open an emergency center in Hanover County near Ashland. (Jack Jacobs photo)
As it puts the finishing touches on an expansion project at its Mechanicsville hospital, Bon Secours is working to further grow its presence in Hanover County.
The health system has a new free-standing emergency services and imaging center in the works near Ashland at 10080 Lewistown Road.
It aims to open the roughly 17,800-square-foot, one-story center in early 2025, pending state approval of the project, according to spokeswoman Jenna Green.
The expected cost for the facility is about $25 million.
Dubbed the Bon Secours Ashland Emergency and Imaging Center, the facility would feature 10 emergency rooms and offer CT and MRI imaging in addition to emergency medical care as an extension of Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, which sits about 10 miles south of the Lewistown Road site. In creating the new facility, Bon Secours hopes to better accommodate demand and bring services closer to people living in the hospital’s coverage area.
“Establishing an imaging center and emergency department in this area allows Bon Secours to better distribute our CT, MRI and 24/7 emergency care closer to many of our patients who are already utilizing our services. In addition, a new emergency department would help to decompress high (emergency department) volumes at Memorial Regional while also improving medic reliability and emergency transport times for the Hanover community and beyond,” Green said in an email Wednesday.
Bon Secours in late March filed a certificate of public need, or COPN, application with the state seeking permission to establish the center. Medical providers that want to either build or expand facilities in Virginia must apply to the state health department’s regulatory COPN program to do so.
An LLC tied to Ohio-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, of which Bon Secours Richmond is the local arm, is planning to buy the 4-acre project site for $3.2 million, according to the COPN application. The land sits near Lewistown Road’s interchange with Interstate 95. The property is owned by an LLC tied to Mike Carroll of General Land Co.
GBBN is identified as the project’s architect in the application. Green said a general contractor hadn’t yet been tapped and the bid and construction timeline would depend on whether Bon Secours gets state approval for the project.
The planned Hanover facility would be the fifth free-standing emergency center operated by Bon Secours in the Richmond market. It opened an emergency center in Chester last spring, and also has free-standing emergency centers in Short Pump, Midlothian and Colonial Heights.
The planned expansion in Hanover comes as Bon Secours wraps up a $50 million expansion and renovation project at Memorial Regional, at 8260 Atlee Road.
The new emergency center also comes as Bon Secours competitor HCA is planning a new Hanover hospital of its own about 10 minutes away.
Bon Secours is planning to open an emergency center in Hanover County near Ashland. (Jack Jacobs photo)
As it puts the finishing touches on an expansion project at its Mechanicsville hospital, Bon Secours is working to further grow its presence in Hanover County.
The health system has a new free-standing emergency services and imaging center in the works near Ashland at 10080 Lewistown Road.
It aims to open the roughly 17,800-square-foot, one-story center in early 2025, pending state approval of the project, according to spokeswoman Jenna Green.
The expected cost for the facility is about $25 million.
Dubbed the Bon Secours Ashland Emergency and Imaging Center, the facility would feature 10 emergency rooms and offer CT and MRI imaging in addition to emergency medical care as an extension of Bon Secours Memorial Regional Medical Center, which sits about 10 miles south of the Lewistown Road site. In creating the new facility, Bon Secours hopes to better accommodate demand and bring services closer to people living in the hospital’s coverage area.
“Establishing an imaging center and emergency department in this area allows Bon Secours to better distribute our CT, MRI and 24/7 emergency care closer to many of our patients who are already utilizing our services. In addition, a new emergency department would help to decompress high (emergency department) volumes at Memorial Regional while also improving medic reliability and emergency transport times for the Hanover community and beyond,” Green said in an email Wednesday.
Bon Secours in late March filed a certificate of public need, or COPN, application with the state seeking permission to establish the center. Medical providers that want to either build or expand facilities in Virginia must apply to the state health department’s regulatory COPN program to do so.
An LLC tied to Ohio-based Bon Secours Mercy Health, of which Bon Secours Richmond is the local arm, is planning to buy the 4-acre project site for $3.2 million, according to the COPN application. The land sits near Lewistown Road’s interchange with Interstate 95. The property is owned by an LLC tied to Mike Carroll of General Land Co.
GBBN is identified as the project’s architect in the application. Green said a general contractor hadn’t yet been tapped and the bid and construction timeline would depend on whether Bon Secours gets state approval for the project.
The planned Hanover facility would be the fifth free-standing emergency center operated by Bon Secours in the Richmond market. It opened an emergency center in Chester last spring, and also has free-standing emergency centers in Short Pump, Midlothian and Colonial Heights.
The planned expansion in Hanover comes as Bon Secours wraps up a $50 million expansion and renovation project at Memorial Regional, at 8260 Atlee Road.
The new emergency center also comes as Bon Secours competitor HCA is planning a new Hanover hospital of its own about 10 minutes away.
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