VCU Health’s new clinic features a cardiopulmonary rehabilitation gym and on-site lab in Reynolds Crossing. (Photos courtesy Allen Jones/VCU)
VCU Health has brought a service that was previously available only on its downtown medical campus to Henrico County.
The health system recently opened a nearly 11,000-square-foot clinic at 6605 W. Broad St. in Reynolds Crossing, offering rehab services to patients with heart and lung conditions.
The new facility also houses cardiovascular and pulmonary specialists, including providers who treat asthma, COPD and similar conditions, as well as specialists in electrophysiology, women’s heart health and heart failure. The center provides diagnostic testing and features an on-site lab. It also has a cardiopulmonary rehab gym with a walking track and exercise equipment.
VCU Health declined to share the cost to equip the cardiopulmonary center, which opened to patients earlier this week in a portion of the Billy Reynolds Jr. Building.
Clark Construction was the project’s general contractor. Architecture firm PSH+ handled the design of the facility.
The center has 30 employees, according to a VCU Health spokeswoman.
The center shares the two-story, 63,000-square-foot medical office building with a Bon Secours imaging center and Glen Forest Dental Co. The building is part of the Walmart- and Westin-anchored Reynolds Crossing development.
VCU Health’s nearly 11,000-square-foot clinic for patients with heart and lung conditions is in the Reynolds Crossing development, near Interstate 64 interchanges with West Broad Street and Glenside Drive.
VCU Health said the Reynolds Crossing outpost is the first time cardiopulmonary rehabilitation services have been made available beyond the system’s VCU Medical Center in downtown Richmond.
Health system officials touted the new facility as a means to improve access to cardiovascular and pulmonary specialists and related rehab services for patients in western Henrico. The opening of the clinic provides patients access to VCU Health Pauley Heart Center specialists in addition to services from the health system’s Pulmonology and Critical Care Medicine team.
“Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality for about a third of the population on the planet. To address that we need to meet patients where they are,” Dr. Greg Hundley, Pauley Heart Center director, said in a prepared statement.
“I think an exciting development for Reynolds Crossing is the co-location of our providers and diagnostic testing so we can see patients and take care of concerns, [and] couple that with cardiovascular rehabilitation. It’s an opportunity to bring all of that together under one roof,” Hundley added.
VCU Health’s Reynolds Crossing expansion adds to other projects in the region.
The health system is planning to open a center on the site of the former Pet Dairy facility at 1505 Robin Hood Road in Richmond. Also in the works are a new hospital tower for the downtown campus and plans to open a hospital in Chesterfield.
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