Bon Secours Mercy Health has started construction on an expansion at Mary Immaculate Hospital in Newport News worth more than $200 million, a move hospital and city leaders said will expand access to emergency and maternity care across the Peninsula.
The new four-story, 144,000 square-foot patient tower is expected to open in summer 2028. It will include a larger emergency department, expanded labor and delivery services, a neonatal intensive care unit, 14 ICU beds and 26 universal care beds that can adapt to different levels of patient needs.
Alan George, president of Bon Secours Mary Immaculate Hospital, said the emergency department will double in size, growing from 15 rooms to 30…