Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center

Address: 1020 Bon Secours Drive, Suffolk

Project Type: Private

Project Size: 100,000 square feet; three stories

Project Cost: $85 million

Owner: Bon Secours

Contractor: Hourigan

Architect: Champlin Architecture

Engineer: Kimley-Horn

For years, residents of northern Suffolk needing inpatient surgical care had no hospital nearby. The nearest options required traveling well outside their community — a gap that grew more acute as the area’s population expanded. Bon Secours identified that need as early as 2018, when it received a certificate of public need for a surgically focused hospital on its existing Harbour View campus. Andy Spicknall, the hospital’s inaugural president, noted that early planning sessions dated back a decade. “To stand here now celebrating the realization of that vision,” he said at the medical center’s May 2025 ribbon-cutting ceremony, “is incredibly rewarding.”

The three-story, 100,000-square-foot Bon Secours Harbour View Medical Center adjoins the existing Bon Secours Health Center at Harbour View, effectively transforming a campus that previously offered emergency, imaging and outpatient services into a full-service hospital. Construction began in October 2022 and wrapped up March 31, 2025. The new building adds 18 private inpatient rooms, four operating rooms, a freestanding emergency department and on-site laboratory and imaging services including CT, MRI and X-ray capabilities — with capacity built in to expand both inpatient beds and operating rooms in the future. Designed by Cincinnati’s Champlin Architecture and built by Richmond-based Hourigan, the facility became the fourth hospital Bon Secours operates in Hampton Roads.

It’s also Bon Secours Mercy Health’s first smart hospital. Each inpatient room features an electronic whiteboard displaying the patient’s care plan, medications and tests ordered in real time, alongside AI-powered sensors that alert nurses to potential safety risks, such as when a patient at risk of falls attempts to get up without assistance.

Approximately 100 new staff members were hired ahead of the $85 million facility’s opening, bringing acute care services to a community that had long needed them close to home.