Vertical Expansion at Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center to Serve Growing Population

A renovation and vertical expansion project is complete at Bon Secours St. Francis Medical Center in Midlothian, Virginia. The project features a two-story expansion over a critical care tower, which includes a new medical/surgical unit and a new intensive care unit. The neonatal ICU was expanded from 10 open bays to 11 private rooms and three bays. Overall, the project doubles NICU capacity care in addition to providing the private NICU spaces.

The 180,000-square-foot, 55-bed renovation and expansion project also included converting the former ICU into a 10-bed observation unit and constructing a new 24-bed mother infant unit. An open MRI was added to the hospital campus and the preadmission and pulmonary function testing suite with associated support spaces was expanded. A new outpatient retail pharmacy was added, as well as a new inpatient pharmacy with a prefabricated clean room.

Chesterfield County, where the facility is located, is the fastest growing county in the Richmond metropolitan area, growing by 20 new residents each day. Since opening in 2005, the medical center has served patients not only in Chesterfield County, but in the surrounding counties of Powhatan, Amelia, and Cumberland/Nottoway. The hospital expansion stemmed from a need to provide an increased complexity of inpatient services amid population growth and aging. The project team included Skanska and Gresham Smith.