Southwestern Vermont Medical Center is advancing four capital projects at its Bennington campus. Work includes an 11,000 SF cancer center addition, a new adolescent behavioral health unit, an expanded child care center, and a wellness garden near the main entrance.
Southwestern Vermont Medical Center has entered a multiyear building phase at its Bennington campus in Vermont, where four projects are moving forward on separate schedules. Crews reached an early milestone on July 8, 2026, when concrete was placed for an 11,000 SF addition that will become the Hoyt-Hunter Center for Oncology Care at Dartmouth Cancer Center Bennington. That work began in March 2026.
The four efforts draw on three different funding streams. Philanthropy supports the oncology expansion through the SVHC Foundation campaign called Vision 2020, which has raised more than $32 million and previously funded a new main entrance and the Kendall Emergency Department. A state appropriation backs a new adolescent behavioral health unit, and a federal Department of Agriculture grant funds child care growth.
Once the oncology addition opens around March 2027, services will shift into it while the existing 9,000 SF space is renovated, a sequencing approach that lets an active hospital keep treating patients during construction. The finished center, due in winter 2028, will contain thirteen private infusion bays, four community infusion chairs, consultation rooms, and a central nursing station.
Elsewhere on campus, demolition of a 6,600 SF lower-level area precedes a 7,800 SF unit offering ten adolescent beds and one for complex needs, opening in summer 2028 with Dartmouth Health’s Department of Psychiatry. The Learning Tree Child Care Center will grow from sixty to ninety slots by spring 2028, and a donor-funded wellness garden near the entrance is set for completion in early October.
Details were provided by Southwestern Vermont Health Care. Southwestern Vermont Medical Center owns the Bennington campus hosting the work, with Walsh Brothers serving as construction partner for the oncology expansion.