Winchester Medical Center        Hampshire Memorial Hospital      War Memorial Hospital

Winchester Medical Center Campus Expansion Project

Winchester Medical Center’s Campus Expansion Project is a three-year, $160 million undertaking that will substantially change the profile of the WMC campus by its completion in late 2012.
The project will increase space within the hospital by more than 50%. WMC’s licensed bed capacity will grow from 411 to 445.

The project is designed to achieve LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. This designation means the project meets stringent standards for the environmental sensitivity of site planning, design, construction, operation and maintenance.

Project Components
1) East Parking Garage – Opened November 2009 
    5-level, 569-space structure behind Hurst Hospitality House on the east side of the campus 
    It will connect to the North Tower via a covered walkway over the ring road

2) North Tower 
    A six-level structure, with five floors wrapping around and above the Emergency Department. Cost for the North Tower is $111 million.

• Level G
  • Support space, expanded & relocated loading dock
• Level M
  • Emergency Department expansion & Women’s Center education space
• Level 2
  • Women & Children’s Services - 10 Labor–Delivery–Recovery rooms and NICU expansion from 21 to 30 bassinets (mostly private rooms) with expansion up to 36 bassinets
  • 20-bed Observation Unit
• Level 3
  • 48-bed Critical Care Unit (30 transfer beds and 18 new beds)
  • 16-bed Step Down Unit
• Levels 4 & 5 - Shell space for 64 acute beds per floor for a total of 128 beds (132,372 sq. ft. for two floors combined)

3) Heart & Vascular Center A one-story addition to the current Outpatient Entrance located on the west side of medical center. It will increase the number of holding rooms for patients before and after outpatient heart and vascular procedures. It will also add one cardiac catheterization lab and shell space for four to five additional labs.

4) Clinical Laboratory An additional story above the current Imaging Center consisting of 29,200 sq ft which will allow for an expanded Clinical Lab enabling the medical center to meet accelerating demand for laboratory services.

Net Space Gains from Campus Expansion 

• Additional 18 ICU beds to total 48
• New 16-bed Step Down Unit
• Additional 6 LDR’s to total 12 (10 complete, 2 shelled)
• Additional C-section OR to total 3 (2 complete, 1 shelled)
• 16 Newborn Nursery bassinets
• Additional 24 NICU beds total 36, mostly all private rooms (30 complete, 6 shelled)
• New 20-bed Observation Unit
• Additional 30 holding beds total 65 (52 complete, 13 shelled)
• Additional 5 Cardiac Catheterization Labs (1 complete, 4 to 5 shelled) 
• The project involves 368,000 square feet of new construction (includes 135,500 sq ft of shell space), and 82,000 sq ft of renovation

LEED Certification

• Project designed to achieve LEED gold certification

Timeline

• Approved by Valley Health Board of Directors November 4, 2008
• Certificate of Public Need (COPN) application filed with Va. Department of Health January 2009
• Parking garage construction began in April and was completed in November 2009
• COPN approval received June 5, 2009
• Campus Expansion Ground Breaking / Project kick-off held Friday, November 20, 2009
• Emergency Department temporary entrance activated May 13, 2010. Will be in place until January 2012.
• Heart & Vascular Center scheduled for completion in April 2011
• Laboratory scheduled for completion in May 2011.
• Completion of project anticipated in Fall 2012

Financing

• Total Project Cost: $161.3 million
• Financing: $140 million through bond issuance, balance through cash reserves and philanthropy

Construction Team

• Architects: Perkins + Wills
• Engineers: CCRD Partners, Cagley and Associates Inc. and Valley Engineering Surveying Planning
• Project Management: Hammes Company
• Construction Manager: Whiting-Turner Contracting Company
• Sub-contractors: Heavy reliance on local firms, vendors, & suppliers

Hampshire Memorial Hospital

East Mountain Health (EMH), a not-for-profit West Virginia Corporation and health system, serves West Virginia & Maryland. It is Valley Health’s West Virginia corporate agent. Over 1,000 West Virginians are employed by Valley Health, and reside and pay taxes in West Virginia.

• Hampshire Memorial Hospital is a federally-designated Critical Access Hospital (CAH).
• CAH Designation criteria are defined as follows: o Physical location in a state that has an established Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility
  • Program (Flex Program)
  • Be located in a rural area
  • Provide 24 hour emergency care services, using on site or on call staff
  • Provide no more than 25 inpatient beds
  • Have an average length of stay of 96 hours or less; and
  • Be either 35 miles from another hospital or another CAH, or 15 miles in areas with mountainous terrain or only secondary roads.
• The new Hampshire Memorial Hospital will have the same bed configuration as the current hospital: 14 inpatient beds and 30 long-term care beds.

Construction Timeline

• Approved by Valley Health Board of Directors in 2008
• Certificate of Public Need (COPN) application filed with West Virginia Health Care Authority and approved in 2009
• Ground Breaking: July 2009
• Construction Completion: December 2010
• Occupancy: Spring 2011

Construction Financing 

• Total Project Cost: $30 million
• Financing: $20 million through bond issuance, balance through cash reserves and philanthropy

Construction Team 

• Architects: Perkins + Wills
• Engineers: Valley Engineering Surveying Planning
• Project Management: Hammes Company
• Construction Manager: Howard Shockey & Sons
• Sub-contractors: Heavy reliance on local firms, vendors, & suppliers including RCD Electrical and Riddleberger Brothers

 

War Memorial Hospital 

 

 

War Memorial Hospital is also a federally-designated Critical Access Hospital (CAH).

• CAH Designation criteria are defined as follows: physical location in a state that has an established Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility Program
  • Program (Flex Program)
  • Be located in a rural area
  • Provide 24-hour emergency care services, using on-site or on-call staff
  • Provide no more than 25 inpatient beds
  • Have an average length of stay of 96 hours or less; and
  • Be either 35 miles from another hospital or another CAH, or 15 miles away in areas with mountainous terrain or only secondary roads.
• The new War Memorial Hospital will have the same bed configuration as the current hospital: 25 inpatient beds and 16 long-term care beds.

 

Construction Timeline & Background

 

• Certificate of Need (CON) application approved by the West Virginia Health Care Authority in January 2010
• Ground Breaking: June 2010
• Project Completion: 2012
• Age of current facility: 63 years
• Building site: 80-acre parcel on Fairview Drive
• Total Project Cost: $30 million
• Finished Square Feet: Approximately 87,000

 

LEED Certification

 

• Project designed to achieve LEED silver certification

 

Construction Team 

 

• Architects: Perkins + Wills
• Engineers: Valley Engineering Surveying Planning
• Project Management: Hammes Company
• Construction Manager: Howard Shockey & Sons