An aerial photo of Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Chesterfield, where Bon Secours is planning to add additional beds to the facility. (BizSense file)
Bon Secours, VCU Health and HCA are all eyeing projects to add more beds to hospitals in the Richmond area, according to filings with the state health department.
Bon Secours is planning to add 40 acute-care beds to St. Francis Medical Center in western Chesterfield, per a recent letter to the Virginia Department of Health.
Separate filings to the state indicate that VCU Health wants to add more than 50 beds at its downtown Richmond campus, while HCA wants nearly 40 more beds at Chippenham Hospital on Jahnke Road.
The Bon Secours project proposes that 36 surgical beds and four intensive-care beds be added to St. Francis, where the health system earlier this year completed a $108 million, 55-bed renovation and expansion project.
St. Francis, which opened in 2005, currently has 185 acute-care beds. The proposed expansion project would address increasing medical needs of Chesterfield’s growing population, and continues the drive to expand the hospital’s capacity to address that demand, Bon Secours spokeswoman Emma Swann said in an email.
“As this area continues to experience growth, we continue to adjust our plans to ensure that we are meeting those needs appropriately,” she said.
Bon Secours didn’t provide a cost projection or construction timeline for the project.
VCU Health wants to add 53 new beds at its downtown Richmond campus, which is home to the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU and other facilities.
VCU’s filing described the beds’ proposed location as “the downtown campus.” It wasn’t clear in which specific facilities the beds would be located.
The health system is planning to add 24 pediatric surgical beds, 23 adult intensive-care beds and six surgical beds for adults to the campus, where VCU Health in 2023 completed a $420 million expansion of the children’s hospital and has more recently shared plans for further expansion of the campus.
Further details about the VCU Health project were unavailable Monday. A spokeswoman declined to comment.
Also in the city, HCA is looking to add 36 surgical beds to Chippenham Hospital at 7101 Jahnke Road.
HCA spokesman Wes Hester declined to comment on the details of the Chippenham project. He said the project was being pursued to address demand for services in the area.
“The addition of new beds at Chippenham would be to ensure that we are positioned to meet growing needs within the community,” Hester said.
HCA’s plans to expand Chippenham comes as the health system seeks to establish a new medical campus in Hanover, with plans for an eventual hospital there.
All three health systems filed letters of intent with the state health department indicating their plans to file applications for the hospital beds in the last two weeks. The letters are precursors to applications filed with the state’s regulatory Certificate of Public Need (COPN) program. In Virginia, certain medical facilities and equipment require the approval of the state health commissioner before they can be established.
Representatives for the health systems said they plan to file the COPN applications for their respective projects early next year.
An aerial photo of Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Chesterfield, where Bon Secours is planning to add additional beds to the facility. (BizSense file)
Bon Secours, VCU Health and HCA are all eyeing projects to add more beds to hospitals in the Richmond area, according to filings with the state health department.
Bon Secours is planning to add 40 acute-care beds to St. Francis Medical Center in western Chesterfield, per a recent letter to the Virginia Department of Health.
Separate filings to the state indicate that VCU Health wants to add more than 50 beds at its downtown Richmond campus, while HCA wants nearly 40 more beds at Chippenham Hospital on Jahnke Road.
The Bon Secours project proposes that 36 surgical beds and four intensive-care beds be added to St. Francis, where the health system earlier this year completed a $108 million, 55-bed renovation and expansion project.
St. Francis, which opened in 2005, currently has 185 acute-care beds. The proposed expansion project would address increasing medical needs of Chesterfield’s growing population, and continues the drive to expand the hospital’s capacity to address that demand, Bon Secours spokeswoman Emma Swann said in an email.
“As this area continues to experience growth, we continue to adjust our plans to ensure that we are meeting those needs appropriately,” she said.
Bon Secours didn’t provide a cost projection or construction timeline for the project.
VCU Health wants to add 53 new beds at its downtown Richmond campus, which is home to the Children’s Hospital of Richmond at VCU and other facilities.
VCU’s filing described the beds’ proposed location as “the downtown campus.” It wasn’t clear in which specific facilities the beds would be located.
The health system is planning to add 24 pediatric surgical beds, 23 adult intensive-care beds and six surgical beds for adults to the campus, where VCU Health in 2023 completed a $420 million expansion of the children’s hospital and has more recently shared plans for further expansion of the campus.
Further details about the VCU Health project were unavailable Monday. A spokeswoman declined to comment.
Also in the city, HCA is looking to add 36 surgical beds to Chippenham Hospital at 7101 Jahnke Road.
HCA spokesman Wes Hester declined to comment on the details of the Chippenham project. He said the project was being pursued to address demand for services in the area.
“The addition of new beds at Chippenham would be to ensure that we are positioned to meet growing needs within the community,” Hester said.
HCA’s plans to expand Chippenham comes as the health system seeks to establish a new medical campus in Hanover, with plans for an eventual hospital there.
All three health systems filed letters of intent with the state health department indicating their plans to file applications for the hospital beds in the last two weeks. The letters are precursors to applications filed with the state’s regulatory Certificate of Public Need (COPN) program. In Virginia, certain medical facilities and equipment require the approval of the state health commissioner before they can be established.
Representatives for the health systems said they plan to file the COPN applications for their respective projects early next year.