When the ribbon was cut on Naval Health Clinic Oak Harbor's (NHCOH) revamped facilities, it was in no small part because of the work Huntsville Center’s Medical Repair & Renewal (MRR) Program.
The MRR team recently completed the $37 million dollar renewal project at NHCOH, Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington. NHCOH was initially constructed in 1968 and expanded in 1989 to its current configuration.
NHCOH is a geographically remote clinic located on an island with limited access.
Despite the challenges, MRR Project Manager Brian Roden and his team were committed to making sure the improvements substantially enhanced the patient experience.
He said prior to the upgrades, the medical facility was not friendly for patients and failed to meet workload needs and standards.
“At the time of programming, the (then) hospital Inpatient Ward, Labor and Delivery (L&D) Department, and Nursery were the only areas housing inpatients for extended days," Roden said. “The local hospitals in the network lacked the capacity to absorb any new or extra L&D workload from the clinic, which averaged 29 births per month.”
He said the prior configuration and space allotted for those services as well as space for Physical Therapy were insufficient to support that product line. And patients were required to traverse through corridors to access showers because there were no showers in the rooms.
The Women's Health Clinic was seriously undersized and did not meet Department of Defense (DoD) space requirements. There were three L&D rooms, and two of the three rooms also did not meet DoD space planning criteria.
His team went to work and helped to dramatically alleviate these shortcomings.
“This project modernized all of the areas above and brought them into conformance with DoD requirements for space and access, including a total of 5 Labor & Delivery rooms and a renewed Pediatrics Clinic,” Roden said. “It also modernized the clinic's air handling units, heat pumps, roof, and restored architectural, mechanical, and electrical systems. This greatly improved the environment of care, patient privacy, infection control, and overall patient satisfaction.”
The project was awarded to Gilbane Federal in September 2014.
Huntsville Center is a unique U.S. Army Corps of Engineers organization. The Center is not defined by geographic boundaries; its missions provide specialized technical expertise, global engineering solutions, and cutting edge innovations through centrally managed programs in support of national interests.
Huntsville Center’s more than 1,000 employees manage nearly 3,000 ongoing projects at any given time. These projects fall into one of five portfolios: Medical, Facilities and Base Operations, Energy, Operational Technology, and Environmental. The portfolios comprise 42 different program areas, as well as six mandatory and six technical centers of expertise, and 17 centers of standardization. Projects are generally broad in scope, require technical expertise, centralized management or are functions not normally accomplished by a Headquarters, USACE organizational element.
| Date Taken: | 09.17.2019 |
| Date Posted: | 10.03.2019 10:37 |
| Story ID: | 345759 |
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