Centra Health Acute Inpatient Dialysis Unit Renovation / Expansion – Lynchburg, VA
Centra Health Acute Inpatient Dialysis Unit Renovations / Expansion
Project Scope: 2,000 SF renovation and expansion of an Inpatient Acute Dialysis treatment space (five stations) into a seven station Inpatient Acute Dialysis treatment unit in Lynchburg, Virginia. The unit’s renovation/ expansion goals are Improvement of Patient Environment of Care (visual privacy, acoustics) as well as improved support space provisions to support clinical staff efficiency (storage, equipment docking, visual control), including a full R/O water system replacement.
Architect-of-Record: Currin Design Consulting, LLC
Project Cost: Undetermined
Project Completion: 2017
Owner: Centra Health System
Client/Owner Contact: Bob Clopper (434) 200-1148
Centra Health Lynchburg General Hospital Hybrid OR / Cath Lab Renovation – Lynchburg, VA
Centra Health Lynchburg General Hospital – Hybrid OR / Cath Lab Renovation
Project Scope: Renovation of two existing cath labs, equipment and their control rooms to meet current regulatory and equipment requirements for a hybrid operating room catheterization lab in Lynchburg, Virginia. The existing PACU and adjacent cath labs remained operational while the new labs were gutted and all new equipment and systems were installed, including electrical, medical gas and HVAC upgrades to support the new equipment loads. Close coordination with the adjacent clinical user activities and ongoing patient care both above, below and adjacent were key project components.
Currin Design Consulting, LLC provided full construction document and medical equipment review and coordination as well as key interval site inspections for assurance of life safety and infection control measures in place as well as close coordination of trades and quality of workmanship as an industry specialist for the owner, Centra Health.
Architect-of-Record: HKS Architects
Project Cost: Undisclosed
Project Completion: 2016
Owner: Centra Health System
Client/Owner Contact: Bob Clopper (434) 200-1148
Veterans Administration Medical Center Hampton Inpatient and Outpatient Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Renovation and Expansion – Hampton, VA
Hampton Veterans Administration Medical Center – Inpatient and Outpatient Diagnostic Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Renovation and Expansion Floor Plan
Project Scope: 22,000 SF renovation and expansion within the existing VA Medical Center in Hampton, Virginia. The project reorganized the existing diagnostic imaging services department, increasing staff efficiency and improving the patient experience by providing logical adjacencies between programs with similarities in staffing and dual treatment processes. The thoughtful reorganization and expansion of current programs incorporated additional diagnostic imaging growth forecast and right-sized patient treatment spaces that were originally drastically undersized for the equipment and patient maneuvering requirements.
The major program components were two CT scanners with flexibility for a third; two gamma camera nuclear medicine CT scan rooms; three standard xray rooms; and two fluoroscopy scan rooms. Also incorporated as additive alternate adjacent clinics were an IRL lab (Interventional Radiology Lab and four bed PACU) and a PVL lab (two Pulmonary Vascular procedure rooms).
Currin Design Consulting, LLC provided programming, planning and facility design as well as full-discipline and specialty equipment quality control/cross-discipline coordination.
Architect-of-Record: Avetech Design Group
Project Cost: $6.5 million
Project Completion: 2017
Owner: Federal Government – Veterans Administration
Client Contact: Jim Collins (757) 389-5518
Centra Health Elevator Modernization Project – Lynchburg, VA
Centra Health Elevator Modernization Project
Project Scope: Renovation of three existing electric elevator shafts, equipment and their machine room to meet current regulatory requirements for life safety fire ratings and elevator standards in Lynchburg, Virginia. The existing elevators will remain in operation while shafts are upgraded with pit ladders, required electrical provisions are installed, unrelated existing utilities within the shafts are protected within fire-rated assemblies and the elevator equipment in the machine room is replaced along with the entire control system.
Life Safety upgrades and building occupant protection are the main project drivers, with the end goal being reliable consistent functionality of the elevators and providing adequate fire-rated assemblies to isolate existing utilities within the shafts.
Architect-of-Record: Currin Design Consulting, LLC
Project Cost: In-House Labor Force/Materials-Only Cost
Project Completion: 2016
Owner: Centra Health System
Client/Owner Contact: Bob Clopper (434) 200-1148
Ambulatory Care Facility – Centra Southside Hospital – Farmville, VA
Ambulatory Care Facility – Centra Southside Hospital
Project Scope: 50,000 SF renovation and repurpose of an old retail building. The renovations will provide multiple clinics that will support the nearby existing hospital in Farmville, Virginia. The Ambulatory Care Facility will provide the following outpatient clinics: Dialysis, Nephrology, Women’s Health, Orthopedics, Physical Therapy and Diagnostic Imaging.
Architect: Undisclosed
Owner: Centra Health System
Client/Owner Contact Information:
Bob Clopper (434) 200-1148
Project Cost: Undisclosed
Completion Date: 2016
Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital, United States Army Corps of Engineers – Ft. Belvoir, VA
Ft. Belvoir Community Hospital
Project scope included 1,300,000 SF replacement hospital within the existing military installation of Ft. Belvoir. The facility is a 70 bed hospital with four attached clinic buildings, two, 500 car parking decks and a new Central Utility Plant to serve the medical facility.
Ms. Currin provided third party specialized medical Peer Review for architecture, interiors, medical equipment and specialty medical systems, medical equipment and system coordination with all disciplines; three pharmacy compliance 797 certifications (Hem/Oncology, General Medicine, Nuclear Medicine) while employed by Clark Nexsen Architecture & Engineering.
Architect: HDR
Owner: United States Army Corps of Engineers
Project Cost: Undisclosed
Completion Date: 2012
Gretna Medical Center- Centra Health System – Gretna, VA
Gretna Medical Center Emergency and Diagnostic Imaging Center
Project Scope: 50,000 SF new free standing Emergency & Diagnostic Imaging Center with an adjacent Primary Care and therapy clinic in Gretna, Virginia. The Emergency and Imaging Center provided a much needed urgent care facility for this rural community which did not have emergency care provisions. The facility provided eight treatment rooms, two trauma rooms, two R/F rooms, a CT scanner, ultrasound, mammography and nuclear medicine scanning (PET/CT) with the ability to support a mobile MRI unit as well as a full lab. The adjacent Primary Care and therapy center provided various therapies. Currin Design Consulting, LLC provided quality control review of construction documents/cross-discipline coordination, medical equipment and diagnostic imaging equipment coordination review, construction quality control observation and cost-efficiency review/consulting.
Architect: Freeman White
Owner: Centra Health System
Project Cost: $14 million
Completion Date: 2015
Augusta Health Clinical Engineering Relocation – Fishersville, VA
Clinical Engineering Relocation – Augusta Health
Project Scope: 2,000 SF relocation of the Clinical Engineering Services Department for Augusta Health Hospital in Fishersville, Virginia. The relocation provided a more appropriate size and efficient layout of workspace as well as provide additional equipment and supply storage to alleviate the current substantial space provision deficit. The project entailed relocating out of the existing critical space needed to expand the ICU and OR support areas.
Construction phasing, Infection Control and Life safety were crucial to the project’s success as it is directly adjacent to the Med/Surge inpatient bed unit.
Architect: Currin Design Consulting, LLC
Owner: Augusta Health
Client/Owner Contact Information:
Francis Caruccio (540) 332-4780
Project Cost: $250,000
Completion Date: 2015
Augusta Health Surgical Services Expansion – Fishersville, VA
Augusta OR Expansion
Project Scope: 22,000 SF addition and renovation to the existing hospital surgery center, fitting seamlessly into the Augusta Health campus in Fishersville, Virginia. The surgical expansion provided 2 additional Class C operating rooms, increased the sterile core adding staff support & equipment spaces, doubled the size of the PACU, added 5 dedicated endoscopy rooms and a cystoscopy room. The addition was built onto the existing operating suite and on top of the existing, fully occupied Emergency Department. Construction phasing, Infection control, Life safety, well coordinated utility tie-ins and shut downs as well as site traffic control made the project a success, finishing ahead of schedule and on budget.
Ms. Currin provided planning, programming,building design assistance, quality control/ full discipline coordination of construction documents, medical equipment coordination review, cost efficiency review/ consulting, construction administration and project management while employed by Odell Associates, Inc.
Architect: Odell Associates, Inc.
Project Cost: $3.5 million
Completion Date: 2007
