PVHS seeks help to find future vision

FORT COLLINS – Poudre Valley Health System is about to take a long look into its future.

The Fort Collins-based hospital system, which includes Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins and Medical Center of the Rockies in Loveland, is hiring a consultant to help it plan for health-care changes and system growth possibilities from 2010 through 2025.

“Essentially, our goal is to understand how we’ll need to deliver health care in the future and respond to growing needs,´ said Dan Robinson, PVHS’ chief operating officer.

Robinson said PVHS is seeking “a partner that can think in the future and think out of the box.”

In July, PVHS issued requests for proposals from firms that have “experience in long-term, visionary master planning and design of health-care facilities.” The selected firm will help PVHS develop a “long-term vision, business strategy and master plan for health care services and facilities,” including the MCR campus, the Harmony outpatient campus and the PVH campus that addresses its “land and zoning constraint in this land-locked environment.”

PVH, located at 1024 S. Lemay Ave., in April opened a new 700-space parking garage and a new $12 million, four-story medical office building in partnership with the Women’s Clinic of Northern Colorado and Associates in Family Medicine.

The expansion was built on land owned by PVHS directly across Lemay Avenue from the hospital, which is nearly surrounded by residential neighborhoods.

Robinson said eight proposals were received by the July 31 submission deadline. He said a “very comprehensive review team” comprised of PVHS administration officials, business development staff, physicians and others will review the proposals and choose a firm to hire.

“We’d love to have one hired by the end of August and have a partner on board by September,” he said. Robinson said the proposals and firm names are not yet being made public.

PVHS wants the selected consultant to produce a plan for its board of directors by April 2010, Robinson said.

The selected firm is expected to prepare up to three alternative master plan studies for existing PVHS campuses “and potential sites that incorporate overall land use, future land acquisition needs, circulation concept, vehicular and pedestrian circulation patterns and recommendations on the use of existing buildings, spaces and facilities,” according to the PVHS RFP.

Robinson said he did not yet know how much will be budgeted for the consultant study.

The 15-year master plan will not be a set-in-stone document, he noted.

“It’ll be a guide,” he said. “We know the health care climate now is very dynamic and we need to position ourselves for what we know and what we anticipate happening in the future.”

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