{"id":9245,"date":"2024-02-13T19:40:28","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T19:40:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/?p=9245"},"modified":"2026-04-12T12:10:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T12:10:31","slug":"fema-commits-nearly-1-billion-to-replace-roy-lester-schneider-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/fema-commits-nearly-1-billion-to-replace-roy-lester-schneider-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"FEMA Commits Nearly $1 Billion to Replace Roy Lester Schneider Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2024<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9246 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/DSC_4163-scaled-e1707864967907.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"509\" height=\"245\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"femaheading0-chapter\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12pt; text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 18.0pt;\">FEMA Commits Nearly $1 Billion to Replace Roy Lester Schneider Hospital on St. Thomas<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p class=\"femanormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt;\">ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\"> \u2013 A commitment of $928.7 million to demolish and replace Roy Lester Schneider Hospital on St. Thomas marks a milestone in FEMA\u2019s collaboration with the territory to rebuild the healthcare infrastructure across the U.S. Virgin Islands damaged during hurricanes Irma and Maria in September 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"femanormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman, serif;\">The prudent replacement of Schneider Hospital made possible under the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, clears a path for the demolition of the five-story tall, 254,270-square-foot concrete masonry building and the construction of a new 439,910-square-foot hospital on the existing site in Sugar Estate.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"femanormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">FEMA has now committed over $976,520,000 to replace Schneider Hospital and repair Charlotte Kimmelman Cancer Institute on St. Thomas. The project to repair Kimmelman Cancer Institute includes the demolition of the facility\u2019s interior and $170,791 in hazard mitigation measures to make the facility more resilient to better withstand future hurricanes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"femanormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">Focus will continue with the Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands Office of Disaster Recovery to repair and replace hurricane-damaged facilities to pave a path for healthcare facilities to deliver medical care in an equitable manner for all Virgin Islanders.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 12.0pt 0cm;\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;\">\u201cI am proud our FEMA team in the U.S. Virgin Islands has put in the hard work with our partners in the territory to replace the Roy Lester Schneider Hospital on St. Thomas,\u201d said Kristen A. Hodge, the Director for FEMA\u2019s Recovery Office in the U.S. Virgin Islands. \u201cOur resolve to work with our partners in the U.S. Virgin Islands to repair and rebuild medical facilities damaged by Irma and Maria remains strong. Our commitment with the territory is to ensure facilities such as Schneider Hospital are repaired and rebuilt to provide healthcare to Virgin Islanders for years to come.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 13, 2024 &nbsp; &nbsp; FEMA Commits Nearly $1 Billion to Replace Roy Lester Schneider Hospital on St. Thomas ST. CROIX, U.S. Virgin Islands \u2013 A commitment of $928.7 million to demolish and replace Roy Lester Schneider Hospital on St. Thomas marks a milestone in FEMA\u2019s collaboration with the territory to rebuild the healthcare infrastructure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"project_id":"","notification":"","due_date":"","status":"","show_rebuild":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-viodr-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9245"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20294,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9245\/revisions\/20294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.usviodr.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}