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Inova Loudoun Breaks Ground On Revamped Leesburg Hospital Campus By Kara Clark, Staff Writer Change is a-coming to the county’s largest nonprofit. Construction has begun on Inova Loudoun Hospital’s $32 million redevelopment project for the downtown Leesburg Cornwall campus. The project will be constructed in two phases. Phase one, set to kick off this fall, will involve the renovation and construction of a new state-of the-art emergency department, including private rooms and trauma rooms. All told, the renovations will increase the size of the emergency department, along with the lab and radiology units, to 12,823 square feet, a more than 3,000-square-foot increase. Other improvements include the construction of a new lab; outpatient imaging enhancements, including an additional CT
scanner; a new brick façade on the 1974 building; upgraded space for the Loudoun Free Clinic and Loudoun Child Advocacy Center; and other improvements, including materials management, patient transport, security and central plant upgrades. The phase one project is set to be completed in 2012, just in time for Inova Loudoun’s 100th anniversary. The phase two construction project will commence soon after phase one’s completion, and will involve the relocation of the Loudoun Adult Medical Psychiatric Services, a 22-bed adult inpatient behavioral medicine unit. Surface parking will also be added at the East Wing. That phase will be completed in 2013. Inova Loudoun Hospital CEO Randy Kelley said the large-scale renovation projSee Hospital, Page 4
Pictured here are renderings of the new emergency department at Inova Loudoun Hospital’s Cornwall campus. Local leaders participated in a ceremonial brick laying for the hospital project in July.
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As Needs Climb, Businesses Pitch In What Loudoun Nonprofits Are Doing To Survive By Kara Clark, Staff Writer Bonnie Inman has seen this show before. Every summer, the shelves of Loudoun Interfaith Relief, the county’s largest emergency food pantry, are almost bare, months after the fashionable holiday food drives’ supplies have long dried up. While the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays have long been popular times to donate, they far from represent the time
of LIR’s greatest need. Rather, that is when schools let out for the summer and thousands of young children that are used to getting lunch, and sometimes breakfast, at school now are home during the hot summer days. “All our resources seem to dwindle away,” Inman said of the summer season. “All our support from the faith-based community, schools, businesses…we don’t have it. People go away.” PRSRT STD U.S. Postage
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LIR’s executive director is quick to point to the generosity of local businesses, community and faith-based groups and county residents on the whole, however. As the economic recession has dragged on to a point where many fear there is no end in sight, LIR and many other county-based nonprofits have had to get a bit creative on how they keep their organizations going. Inman points to some of the nonprofit’s annual events, like its spring luncheon,
and a steady stream of consistent donors, that have helped LIR meet its annual, growing needs. She is also hopeful that two new initiatives the nonprofit is launching, Industry Partners and its 20th anniversary celebration, will be an attractive way for new donors to come on board. “We are really beating the bushes to see who can support those two programs, See Nonprofits, Page 21
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