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New entrance to Lynchburg General Hospital

March 28, 2005
Lynchburg General Hospital's main entrance on Tate Springs Road is scheduled to close Monday, April 4, when construction begins for the new East Tower. The terrace entrance on Thomson Drive will become the new main entrance for visitors and patients for the next few years.

The Thomson Drive lot – the major parking expansion underway on the site of the former Fine Arts Center – is scheduled for paving, and completion of the paving is expected by mid-April. During construction, this lot will become the main parking lot for visitors and patients.

A 14-passenger shuttle van will be available to transport visitors to and from the parking lots to the terrace entrance. The shuttle will operate from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

The new building is designed to be patient and family-friendly yet still accommodate the advance equipment and technology needed to care for today's patients. The project will include 108 spacious private rooms; separate floors for cancer patients, surgery patients and a new unit for treating neurological, orthopedic, spine and total joint replacement patients; a new expanded dining area with state-of-the-art food preparation areas to support the added patient volume and to replace the hospital's 40-yuear-old kitchen; a conference center for community health events, continuing education and onsite physician meetings; renovation of pharmacy, laboratory and X-ray, and one floor of shell space for future expansion.

In addition to the patient care area, the project also will include renovation of 65,000 square feet of space at the hospital, with an emphasis on improved patient care support areas.