Making Rounds
Cape Fear Valley Medical Center opens two new patient floors and two new helipads
The newest patient rooms at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center opened this winter, taking patient care to new heights in the upward expansion of the Valley Pavilion section of the hospital. With the highest point of the building now at 161 feet, 3 inches tall, it also makes it the tallest building in Fayetteville.
The vertical expansion has added two floors for patient care, bringing the Valley Pavilion up to eight floors, including a mechanical space between floors. This adds 100,000 square feet to the hospital, bringing its total square footage to over 1.7 million square feet.
“We recognized that we needed this expansion to meet the growing needs of our community, and to provide meaningful assistance to reduce delays in our Emergency Department,” CEO Michael Nagowski said.
“We recognized that we needed this expansion to meet the growing needs of our community.” - Mike Nagowski, CEO
Inside the new floors are 92 new beds, each in a private room, including 44 Adult Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds and 48 Adult Step-Down unit beds – bringing Cape Fear Valley Medical Center’s capacity to 762 licensed beds. The expansion roughly doubles the available Adult ICU beds, now at 85, while there are now 106 Adult Step-Down beds in total. Step-Down beds are for intermediate care, when a patient needs more than observation but does not need ICU-level care.
Atop the Valley Pavilion section’s roof are two new helipads that allow patients to be taken by elevator directly into the hospital’s Emergency Department, Heart and Vascular Center, ICU or operating room. One of the new helipads is designed to accommodate a Black Hawk helicopter. Previously, the hospital’s helipad was located on the front lawn, which required longer transport times for patients.
