Health care

The proposed center would be called the Pauley Heart Center Pavilion and would take on at least part of the former longtime milk-processing facility near The Diamond and next to parts of VCU’s Athletic Village project.

The expansion of the western Henrico hospital would feature the construction of a 200,000-square-foot structure, renovations of existing facilities and other projects on the campus off Monument Avenue.

Newly launched Freedom Recovery Centers’ first location will be a 60-bed residential addiction treatment facility in a 30,000-square-foot building at 300 Gateway Centre Parkway.

Virginia Physicians for Women paid $3.5 million for the 1.7-acre property, where it will build a two-story, 32,000-square-foot medical office to replace its current space on the St. Mary’s campus across the street.

The UK-based consumer healthcare company will be modernizing its facility along Brook Road, where it conducts R&D for such brands as Sensodyne toothpaste, Centrum multivitamins and Flonase nasal spray.

The health system has been planning the surgical center and medical office building on the St. Francis campus since 2018.

After nearly two years of regulatory wrangling to try to build a medical campus on a large site near Ashland, HCA appears to be moving on.

Bon Secours, VCU Health and HCA are all eyeing projects to add more beds to hospitals in the Richmond area, including 40 in Chesterfield and nearly 90 in the city.

“A third of our patients come from more than 60 miles away. That’s significant, and a reason why we’re committed to the expansion of the beds,” CEO Alan Lombardo said of the hospital expansion.

The health system hopes to open the $16 million, nearly 11,000-square-foot emergency center at 9630 Iron Bridge Road in 2026.