Pebble Partner Project Descriptions
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Virtua Health, Inc.
Voorhees, NJ

www.virtua.org

This project involves full development of a health care campus on approximately 120 acres of undeveloped land.  The campus will include a regional Ambulatory Care Center, Medical Office Building, Cancer Center, and an inpatient hospital with a  Women’s and Children’s Pavilion. The inpatient hospital is a replacement and relocation of Virtua Voorhees Hospital which is approximately 3.5 miles away from the existing site. 

The programs and services planned for the new site will be largely driven by Virtua Health’s Programs of Excellence which include: Women’s, Children’s, Surgery, Diagnostics, Cardiology and Oncology.  The opportunity to build a campus from the ground up allows Virtua Health to organize services and facilities by specialty to offer “one-stop” shopping and comprehensive and integrated care delivery. 

The new $300 million campus will be situated in an environment highlighted by ponds, fountains and landscaped areas bordering buildings and parking areas. Walkways and gardens will wind through the campus and existing natural wetlands will be preserved.  Of the 120 acres of land, 60 acres will be developed, while the remaining landscape will be utilized to create a campus-like environment with healing gardens and grounds.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for early Spring 2007. The project manager is the Hammes Company; Hammel, Green and Abrahamson, Inc. is the architectural firm.

Potential research projects have yet to be defined; however, Virtua Health is a data driven organization and culture that has numerous metrics in place which yield tremendous opportunities for determining where it wants to focus its Pebble Project research efforts.