NH Project of the Month: Fulcrum Assocs. building 10,000 s/f freestanding HCA Parkland Medical Center emergency room

Plaistow, NH Fulcrum Associates along with HCA Parkland Medical Center celebrated the groundbreaking for the newest freestanding emergency room on Plaistow Rd. The emergency room will expand local access to emergency care for residents and employees of the region. Parkland Medical Center emergency room is scheduled to open to patient care late this spring. 

The new emergency room is a nearly 10,000 s/f facility and will be staffed with board-certified and board-eligible emergency room physicians and nurses 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and will provide the same services as an emergency room that is housed within the walls of a hospital. The new facility will feature walk-in and ambulance entrances, 10 private treatment rooms, CT capabilities, onsite laboratory, digital ultrasound and diagnostic x-ray.

“In an emergency situation, every minute matters,” said Colin Devlin, MD, medical director of Parkland Medical Center’s ER. “Having 24/7 access to emergency medicine physicians close to home for residents in the Plaistow area will save lives and enhance patient recovery.”

“With a commitment to patient care as our focus, we are filling a gap by bringing high-quality emergency services to Plaistow and southern New Hampshire, which continues to see significant growth,” said John Skevington, chief executive officer. “This facility will also have the same advanced medical technologies and life-saving services that are available at our main emergency room on the Parkland Medical Center campus and will be similar to our sister hospital Portsmouth Regional Hospital’s freestanding Dover and Seabrook emergency room locations. With this new emergency room conveniently located along the busy Rte. 125 corridor, patients who live and work in this area will be able to receive services faster, resulting in better health outcomes.”

“We greatly appreciate the confidence HCA and Parkland Medical Center placed in Fulcrum, having successfully completed HCA’s freestanding emergency room in Dover, we could not have been more excited to be awarded this project,” said Daryl Luter, president of Fulcrum. Project design team includes Hereford Dooley Architects,
Power Management Corp. for MEP engineering services, Structural Design Group for structural design and Crunk Engineering for civil engineering, all firms are located in Nashville, Tenn.

The Fulcrum team is led by Megan Butcher, project manager, Kevin Cooper, site superintendent and Dave Stearns lead carpenter. Fulcrum is joined by a team of subcontractors including Gate City Electric, Denron Hall Plumbing and HVAC, Capitol Fire Protection, Metro Walls, George W. Pynn Masonry, SL Chasse Steel, and Lynch’s Landscaping and Excavation.