Liège, Belgium
Hospital: 100,000 m² | 1,076,400 ft² | 720 Beds
Group Service Building: 6,000 m² | 64,580 ft²
Centre Hospitalier Chrétien’s new 100,000 m² | 1,076,400 ft² MontLégia Clinic was constructed to consolidate services previously spread between the Clinique Saint Joseph, Clinique de L’espérance and Clinique Saint Vincent facilities into one location. The new MontLégia Clinic houses 720 conventional hospital beds and 120-day beds. The project also saw the construction of a new 6,000 m² | 64,580 ft² Group Services Building to house administrative services serving all CHC sites and activities.
HCR was selected through an RFP process to provide Facility Activation, Move Planning and Move Management Services for the project. Planning for the Moves began in December 2018 and, after numerous changes to the initial move dates, were ultimately scheduled to be completed in March 2020.
During the move, the uprise of the global COVID-19 pandemic added numerous complications requiring major changes to the move plan, which were implemented during the progression of the move. Lockdowns, travel-bans and return-home directives were issued, but the HCR move management team opted to stay and lead the relocation, freeing up much needed bed capacity during a time it was desperately needed.
News Articles:
Opening a hospital in the middle of a pandemic, a special feeling
Covid-19: start of patient transfer to CHC MontLégia
Start of patient transfer from Saint-Joseph to MontLegia
Coronavirus: 7 first intensive care patients at MontLegia
Management to move forward overnight the planned move to their new hospital in MontLégia
Liège: the transfer of patients to CHC MontLégia began this Friday morning
Liège: a patient transferred every 3 minutes to MontLégia
Intensive care saturated with Hope: patients transferred overnight to MontLégia
Liège: MontLégia is operational against a background of coronavirus
At the MontLégia clinic, the moving of the patients went smoothly
Coronavirus: seven patients receiving respiratory assistance at MontLegia