According to a report, Inova Health System is planned to start building its new hospital in Springfield later this year. The Inova Franconia-Springfield Hospital will be just a short walk from the Franconia -Springfield Metro station and Virginia Railway Express in Springfield.
Construction Cost
612 million dollar hospital will be placed beside the Inova’s current Springfield HealthPlex.
Last March, Inova stated that the new Springfield hospital will comprise 110 beds distributed in two patient towers with private rooms and an enlarged emergency area along with diagnostics imaging facilities and numerous procedural spaces.
The Washington Business Journal reported that Inova has filed building permits for the new Springfield hospital as well as a project at Landmark Mall site to build a new Alexandria hospital.
Commencement date
Tom McDuffie, Inova Realty President said that the two construction sites in Springfield and Landmark are set to start this year’s third quarter.
In 2023, the Virginia Department of Health allowed for construction to start on new hospital by Inova.
2022 saw the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors give their approval to Inova’s land-use applications for building a new hospital and this was followed by granting it a certificate of public need from VDH.
Completion date
The new hospital building is set to be completed in 2028.
According to Inova, during the construction of the new hospital , patients will be provided with an access to rooms including but not limited by emergency room , physical therapy , physician offices and other clinical operations at Franconia-Springfield HealthPlex .
In addition, the hospital on Seminary Road would be replaced by a much bigger acute-care facility – Inova Schar Cancer Institute and specialty care center with approximately 50 specially trained physicians – over an area of about This Brookfield property also contains space for its own parking garage of more than car spots.
Eventually, the emergency room will be expanded and relocated into the hospital. The former ER space will be filled with other medical uses.
The main hospital building near Interstate 395 is to reach one hundred and eighty four feet or seventeen stories tall.
Inova holds a 99-year ground lease at the West End site that Alexandria approved in
In addition, there will be another facility for the hospital off Richmond Highway in Del Ray area.
Inova Oakville at Potomac Yard will be equipped with an emergency room, outpatient center and medical offices.
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It is located less than half-a mile from Potomac Yard shopping center.
Last April, the hospital had a “topping out” ceremony when they put up final structural beam on the building .
The new hospital campus will have almost 2 acres of urban parkland with walking paths and available seating for people to use.
Inova also said it has planned the campus to achieve preservation of mature trees along the north side top property and near intersection Franconia-Springfield Parkway as well Beulyah Street .
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