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News
Fort Belvoir Community Hospital construction tracking well
November 20, 2008
By Jerry Rogers
Norfolk District Public Affairs
The Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Military Construction project is tracking well, said Norfolk District Commander, Col. Dionysios Anninos, during a town hall meeting at Fort Belvoir, Va., Nov. 14.
Colonel Anninos used the forum to update the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Project Delivery Team on the district's current missions, discuss progress on the Belvoir Hospital project, field questions from team members, and officially recognize the PDT for individual and team achievements.
Construction of the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital began on Nov. 8, 2007, and is set for completion August 2010. The facility, designed by HDR/Dewberry Joint Venture and construction contractor, Turner-Gilbane Joint Venture, will be fully operational in spring 2011. The $806.9 million, 1.275,000 sq ft military construction project, features a hospital complex with 120 in-patient beds, primary and specialty care clinics and 3,500 parking spaces.
The National Capitol Area active and retired military service members and their families will be the beneficiaries of the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital, located just south of Washington D.C. The Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers manages the project's construction phase, which is on an accelerated timeline as mandated by the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) authorization. The Fort Belvoir Community Hospital will become part of an integrated health care network providing world-class medical services to the nation's wounded Soldiers and their families. The hospital is one piece of a BRAC 2005 realignment designed to increase hospital and outpatient care to all service members and veterans. Other elements of the health care network include the realignment of Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and the Naval National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.