Bon Secours is planning a new outpatient surgery center as an expansion of the St. Francis Medical Center campus in Midlothian. (BizSense file)
Bon Secours is making fresh moves toward an expansion of its St. Francis Medical Center campus that has been on the drawing board for several years.
The health system in late June informed the Virginia Department of Health it intends to seek the agency’s approval for an outpatient surgery center next to the hospital in Midlothian.
The facility would be built on an undeveloped parcel at 13701 Bon Secours Drive, according to a site plan filed last week with Chesterfield County as part of a zoning confirmation request.
The health system plans to have two operating rooms in the center, according to its June letter to the Virginia Department of Health. The project would also include medical office space.
Bon Secours spokeswoman Emma Swann on Friday said the health system’s certificate of public need application (COPN) was in process and expected to be filed Aug. 1 in order to secure the necessary state approval of the project.
A June 2023 site plan of the proposed surgery center (outlined in red) to be built next to Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Midlothian. (Image courtesy of Chesterfield County)
Bon Secours has had designs on the property for at least several years. In late 2018, it filed plans with Chesterfield County for a 90,000-square-foot facility with office space and a surgery center.
It’s unclear how the size of this latest proposal will compare to that earlier plan. Swann declined to comment on the planned size of the facility or the estimated cost of the project. She said the project site has been cleared in preparation for the development.
Bon Secours bought the 7.8-acre project site for $2.2 million in July 2006, per online property records.
Timmons Group is the project’s engineer.
As Bon Secours plans the new center next to St. Francis, work is underway on an $108 million expansion of the hospital itself. The project is planned to add 55 more beds to the facility and is scheduled to be completed early next year.
Last year, Bon Secours opened a $25.6 million freestanding emergency center in Chester as an extension of St. Francis.
Bon Secours is planning a new outpatient surgery center as an expansion of the St. Francis Medical Center campus in Midlothian. (BizSense file)
Bon Secours is making fresh moves toward an expansion of its St. Francis Medical Center campus that has been on the drawing board for several years.
The health system in late June informed the Virginia Department of Health it intends to seek the agency’s approval for an outpatient surgery center next to the hospital in Midlothian.
The facility would be built on an undeveloped parcel at 13701 Bon Secours Drive, according to a site plan filed last week with Chesterfield County as part of a zoning confirmation request.
The health system plans to have two operating rooms in the center, according to its June letter to the Virginia Department of Health. The project would also include medical office space.
Bon Secours spokeswoman Emma Swann on Friday said the health system’s certificate of public need application (COPN) was in process and expected to be filed Aug. 1 in order to secure the necessary state approval of the project.
A June 2023 site plan of the proposed surgery center (outlined in red) to be built next to Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Midlothian. (Image courtesy of Chesterfield County)
Bon Secours has had designs on the property for at least several years. In late 2018, it filed plans with Chesterfield County for a 90,000-square-foot facility with office space and a surgery center.
It’s unclear how the size of this latest proposal will compare to that earlier plan. Swann declined to comment on the planned size of the facility or the estimated cost of the project. She said the project site has been cleared in preparation for the development.
Bon Secours bought the 7.8-acre project site for $2.2 million in July 2006, per online property records.
Timmons Group is the project’s engineer.
As Bon Secours plans the new center next to St. Francis, work is underway on an $108 million expansion of the hospital itself. The project is planned to add 55 more beds to the facility and is scheduled to be completed early next year.
Last year, Bon Secours opened a $25.6 million freestanding emergency center in Chester as an extension of St. Francis.