News & Information - The Mercury - February 2009 Mercury

by MAJ Jonathan Heavner
Fort Stewart MEDDAC

	Brent Rose (left) shows MAJ Jonathan Heavner plans for main lobby construction at Winn Army Community Hospital.

Brent Rose, chief of the facility management branch at Fort Stewart, Ga., MEDDAC, is the 2008 Barney W. Richmond Facility Management Award recipient (Facility Manager) by the Medical Command assistant chief of staff for installations, environment, and facilities management.

"I am very honored to receive this award and what it means throughout MEDCOM," said Rose.

As the chief of facilities, Rose is responsible for facilities planning and engineering support of over 550,000 square feet of facilities at Winn Army Community Hospital, two medical clinics, two dental clinics and three veterinary activities at Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield. He leads and supervises 24 government and contract employees. He is the contracting officer's representative on the facility's maintenance contract and over $26 million of ongoing projects.

Current projects personally spearheaded by Rose include: renovation of the hospital's labor and delivery ward and OB/GYN clinic; construction of a new radiology building to double MRI procedure capacity for the community; construction of TBI/PTSD facilities to support the most deployed division in the Army; renovation of the hospital main lobby to include a gift shop and patient cafe to support patient and Family centered care initiatives; expansion of the medical warehouse to improve readiness posture, and numerous other projects under $300,000.

Rose serves as a member of the Southeast Regional Medical Command Board of Directors and contributes to the facilities management profession as an active member of the American Society of Healthcare Engineering.

"I enjoy watching things change and improving on patient care throughout the facility," said Rose.

Rose serves as the lead health-care facilities planner for a new 48,937 square foot Soldier Family health and dental clinic valued at over $26 million and scheduled to begin in FY10, and a 155,000 square foot hospital addition and alteration valued at $133 million and scheduled to begin in FY11.

His initiative to partner with the installation directorate of public works and Georgia National Guard led to construction of a $4.3 million warrior transition battalion campus. This includes new facilities for a battalion headquarters, three companies, a warrior post exchange, 28 case managers, social workers, and clinical staff, a Department of Veterans Affairs annex, a dining facility, and a Soldier Family assistance center.

From the February 2009 Mercury, an Army Medical Department publication.