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Belvoir New Vision Planners host community hospital public information meeting
June 23, 2009
By Brittany Brown
Norfolk District Public Affairs Office
FORT BELVOIR, Va. — The Belvoir New Vision Planners will host a public information meeting June 30, 6-8:30 p.m., at Woodlawn Elementary School, located at 8505 Highland Lane, Alexandria, Va.
Members of the public will have the opportunity to review exhibits, meet agency representatives and ask questions about the status of the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital Project, an important component of the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) authorization.
The hospital's construction phase, managed by the Norfolk District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, is scheduled for completion in spring 2011. The facility will then be turned over to the Joint Task Force National Capital Region Medical to staff and equip for subsequent operation.
Once opened, the Fort Belvoir Community Hospital will become a part of an integrated health care network providing world-class medical services to the nation's wounded Soldiers and families. The hospital is one piece of a realignment designed to increase hospital and outpatient care to all service members and veterans under the BRAC 2005.
Other elements of the realignment include a state-of-the-art joint National Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., and closure of the hospital at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. The new facilities will be staffed as joint rather than single service billets with a mix of military medical professionals from the Army, Navy and Air Force. This unprecedented and transformational decision ushers in a new model for health care delivery in the National Capital Region. While military hospitals have traditionally provided care to beneficiaries from all services, military treatment facilities have never been staffed with a representative mix of medical personnel from the service medical departments.
Norfolk District selected the Joint Venture of HDR/Dewberry to perform architectural design services for the new hospital at Fort Belvoir. The hospital's conceptual design calls for a 1.2 million square foot, six-level community hospital, including medical administration areas. The design includes 120 in-patient beds, a 10-bed intensive care unit, a 10-bed behavioral health inpatient unit, a cancer center, an emergency department, a pharmacy, an operative services center with 10 operating rooms, diagnostic centers such as pathology and radiology, and modular clinic space dedicated to outpatient services. Additional space is planned for future outpatient expansion. In addition to the square footage of the facility itself, the project includes two parking garages and surface parking for 3,500 parking spaces, a helipad, ambulance shelter and dedicated central utility plant.
For more information, call 1-877-BNV-2424 or visit www.belvoirnewvision.com.