Building’s “topping out" celebrated

VCU Health System celebrated its latest milestone in the construction of a new 17-story, 615,000-square-foot Adult Outpatient Pavilion on its downtown Richmond campus with a virtual topping out ceremony July 28.

In Fiscal Year 2019 (July 1, 2018-June 30, 2019), VCU Medical Center recorded over 840,000 outpatient clinic visits. The new Adult Outpatient Pavilion will house a wide array of outpatient clinics and have a 472,000-square-foot parking deck with over 1,000 additional parking spaces at the point of service.

Artist's rendering of completed Adult Outpatient Pavilion

Highlights of the new Adult Outpatient Pavilion include:

• Most outpatient services provided downtown by VCU’s Massey Cancer Center will be consolidated in the new building, including medical, surgical and radiation oncology clinics and oncology infusion.
  
  
• The new pavilion will also house medicine infusion, women’s health services and a majority of the specialty outpatient clinics currently located at VCU Health’s Ambulatory Care Center, Nelson Clinic and North Hospital. Also included are an on-site laboratory, pharmacy and medical imaging service.

In addition to providing a space for leading clinical care, the building will feature innovative technology and collaborative spaces to enhance the research and teaching missions of both VCU and VCU Health.

The $383.9 million development is scheduled to open in December 2021.