Peninsula In Passage

Bon Secours – Lynn Zultanky When Lynn Zultanky, Director of Corporate Communications and Media Relations, Bon Secours, Hampton Roads, looks at the Harbour View development she occasionally has flashbacks to the late 1990’s when she first ventured into the area, hoping to shoot photos for a brochure about the new Bon Secours facility to be built there. She remembers - There was nothing here. I was trying to get a nice cover shot when I ended up at dusk stomping around a cornfield where Towne Bank is now, and one of Suffolk’s finest pulled up in a patrol car. Fortunately I was wearing my nametag and I told him I worked for Sister Rita. “Ma’am, “he said, “There are rattlesnakes out here in these fields - you really shouldn’t be out here in the middle of nowhere.” When we opened in May, 1999, we had to have vending machines because the only places the employees could conveniently get lunch was the Bennett’s Creek Market or the Shell station. For people who were coming here out of Maryview it was a long hike “way out here.” I remember driving past the purple painted poles and wondering. But as Bon Secours developed in Harbour View we had no trouble getting staffed. People loved it

and most of them came from Maryview. Here they had regular hours since it was an ambulatory center. We started with 10 acres

and 25 employees in a single 55,000 square foot building with six operating rooms and an imaging department. Now more than 400 people (Bon Secours and non-Bon Secours employees) work on a 23-acre campus with 160,000 square feet in multiple buildings. We have an array of healthcare services including physician practices. The facility also includes The Millie Lancaster Women’s Center and several specialized centers as well as a freestanding 24/7 emergency department. When we first started out here it took a while to catch on, we had to be a destination. We were so glad when the movie theater and stores came in – gave us more visibility. The population has grown and Harbour View officially became a destination when the Harris-Teeter opened.

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