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Construction Underway for Replacement Naval Hospital at Camp Pendleton

Navy NewsStand

Story Number: NNS101203-19
12/3/2010

By MC1(SW) Michael R. McCormick, Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton Public Affairs

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (NNS) -- A groundbreaking ceremony was held Dec. 2 to officially begin construction on a replacement Naval Hospital aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton at the 70 acre site near the main entrance of the base.

This $394 million construction project is the Department of the Navy's largest American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 project.

The new 500,000 sq. foot, multi-level facility will replace the current 37 year old hospital and will enhance the quality and availability of care to the Sailors, Marines and family members in the southern California region.

The ceremony's guest speaker was Vice Adm. Adam M. Robinson, Jr., surgeon general of the Navy, who stressed the importance of the Marine Corps/Navy medical team.

"Wherever Marines go, Navy Medicine will be there," said Robinson. "Navy Medicine's commitment to Marines will never waiver, no matter where they go or what they do."

Camp Pendleton is the Marine Corps' largest West Coast expeditionary training facility and one of the Department of Defense's busiest installations.

According to Capt. Paul Pearigen, commanding officer of Naval Hospital Camp Pendleton, the command's mission is achieved by providing compassionate, efficient, and effective patient and family-centered care whenever and wherever needed.

"I see an environment, not a building," said Pearigen referring to the planned construction. "I see an environment of health and healing. An environment that honors and engages the United States Marine Corps culture and the heroism of active duty, families, and those who have gone before us in service. An environment that is centered on the patient and family, anticipates and meets the needs of our wounded warriors and enables the excellence of Navy Medicine, its people, its knowledge, its skill, its technology and its caring."

The services available in the new hospital will include inpatient medical facilities, surgical suites, ancillary departments, emergency care, primary care, specialty care clinics, support spaces and facilities for non-ambulatory patients with stays in excess of 24 hours.

The new facility will also include a central utilities plant, a multi-level, 1,500 space parking structure, a 1,000 space surface parking lot, and site enhancements such as walking paths.

The contract to design and build the hospital was awarded by Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest to Clark/McCarthy, a Joint Venture.

The hospital is scheduled to be completed in January 2014 and be ready for operation later that year.