A hearing this week to gather input on Virtua Health‘s plan to build a $1 billion medical campus in Westampton led to an outpouring of support from most of the residents who attended.
Next, the New Jersey Health Planning Board will decide at a meeting April 13 in Trenton whether to grant a preliminary approval. Judy Donlen, the board chairwoman, said the proposal will be explored in greater depth at that meeting.
Virtua Health executives James Rivard and Matthew Zuino gave a brief presentation on the scope of the project. “It would cost almost as much to renovate the Mount Holly hospital as it would to design and build an entirely new hospital from the ground up,” Rivard said.
Rivard said all patients would have private rooms. He said there would be 339 beds when the hospital is completed, projected for 2022.