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12:36BriefThe General Assembly Prayer Breakfast, held in 2019 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. (VCU Capital News Service/ Jan. 9, 2019)Xby Sarah Vogelsong, April 6, 2020by Sarah Vogelsong, April 6, 2020The Army Corps of Engineers has received orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to convert three convention centers identified by Gov. Ralph Northam last week into temporary hospital facilities.The facilities — the Dulles Expo Center in Northern Virginia and the Richmond and Hampton Roads convention centers — will be able to provide beds for 1,107 acute patients or 1,848 non-acute patients, Northam said Friday.The sites are intended to free up capacity in the hospital system by providing “general, low-level care for mildly to moderately symptomatic COVID-19 patients,” according to .“We are still in the early stages of this outbreak, but we must ensure that Virginia is ready when the surge of acute cases hits our healthcare system,” Northam said in a Saturday post on the . that they expect the conversions to be complete within six weeks, with work beginning 48 to 72 hours after contracts are awarded.The conversions will require the adaptation of existing generation, water, sanitation, oxygen and HVAC equipment to match hospital needs, as well as the buildout of the facilities “to provide stations for medical personnel, pharmacies, as well as admin spaces in addition to patient care areas,” according to the Norfolk District.During emergencies, states can request assistance from the Army Corps of Engineers to meet technical engineering needs, such as the construction of alternate care facilities.Virginia requested that the Army Corps begin identifying potential sites early in the week of March 23.&nbsp;Forty-one sites across Virginia were evaluated. On Wednesday, Northam said the Norfolk District’s list had been narrowed down to the Hampton Roads Convention Center, “a site in the Richmond area” and the former Exxon Mobil campus next door to Inova Fairfax Medical Center.On Friday, when Northam announced the final picks, he said that the Dulles Expo Center in Northern Virginia had been chosen because necessary construction could proceed most rapidly there.Models used by the state government project that coronavirus cases will peak in Virginia in May.&nbsp;is part of States Newsroom, a network of news bureaus supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. Virginia Mercury maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Sarah Vogelsong for questions: . Follow Virginia Mercury on and .Copy to clipboard1RepublishOur stories may be republished online or in print under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. We ask that you edit only for style or to shorten, provide proper attribution and link to our web site. Please see our republishing guidelines for use of photos and graphics.

12:36BriefThe General Assembly Prayer Breakfast, held in 2019 at the Greater Richmond Convention Center. (VCU Capital News Service/ Jan. 9, 2019)Xby Sarah Vogelsong, April 6, 2020by Sarah Vogelsong, April 6, 2020The Army Corps of Engineers has received orders from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to convert three convention centers identified by Gov. Ralph Northam last week into temporary hospital facilities.The facilities — the Dulles Expo Center in Northern Virginia and the Richmond and Hampton Roads convention centers — will be able to provide beds for 1,107 acute patients or...

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