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Baptist Health Expanding In Nassau And St. Johns Counties

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Baptist Health will soon break ground on a new emergency room and medical office complex in Nassau County’s growing Yulee community.

The Baptist Nassau Crossing Medical Campus will include emergency medical services for adults and children as well as additional health care services in central and western Nassau County.

And as plans proceed to break ground on the new medical campus just east of Interstate 95 on State Road 200, construction is already underway on Baptist Primary Care Beachwalk on County Road 210 West in Northwest St. Johns County, according to the Florida Times-Union, a WJCT News partner.

Yulee’s 23,879-square-foot emergency center will have two emergency centers — Baptist Emergency Center for adults and Wolfson Children’s Emergency Center for patients up to 17. The new emergency room will offer easier access to specialized pediatric care at Wolfson Children’s Hospital for Nassau County.

“For nearly 30 years, Baptist Health has been serving the Nassau community,” Baptist Medical Center Nassau hospital president Ed Hubel said. “It’s been incredible to see the growth, and we appreciate residents’ trust in us to help make the community an even healthier place to live!”

Baptist’s Yulee emergency facility will have an adjoining imaging center for X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, mammography and bone density screenings. And the building is designed for future expansion, Baptist said.

Behind the ER will be a 32,094-square-foot medical office building for Baptist Primary Care and Baptist Behavioral Health, with the potential to add other specialty services.

The $38 million facility is scheduled to open in early 2024.

Baptist Health’s new 12,000-square-foot Beachwalk facility in Northwest St. Johns County is set to open in late August or early September.

“We understand how important it is for families to have their primary health care services close to home,” Baptist Health president and CEO Michael Mayo told the Times-Union. “You will see this play out across the region as we continue our strong commitment to community-based primary care, building new clinics and expanding existing clinics throughout northeast Florida.”

The medical office and outpatient center will have 21 exam rooms, staffed by physicians and medical staff currently at the Baptist Primary Care St. Johns Forest office.

 

Source:  Jax Today

 

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Jacksonville-Based Baptist Health’s Wolfson Children’s Hospital To Unveil Critical Care Tower With AI-Powered Tech

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Jacksonville-based Wolfson Children’s Hospital, of Baptist Health, will soon unveil a new building dedicated to neonatal and pediatric critical care.

The 7-floor building, named Borowy Family Children’s Critical Care Tower, will feature 127 beds and 122 suites equipped with new AI-powered tech. It will include a nenonatal ICU, pediatric critical care, a pediatric neuro-ICU— the first in the state, according to Wolfson—a cardiovascular ICU and a burn and wound care unit.

The hope was to “build the best critical care center in the world,” Michael Aubin, president of Wolfson Children’s Hospital, told Fierce Healthcare.

The hospital tore down a parking garage to make space for the tower. Before building the structure, hospital leadership, along with architects and tech partners, visited other buildings, reviewed plans of new construction projects and talked to other hospital leadership on the features of their facilities. Wolfson’s team also requested input on expectations from families.

 

Source:  Fierce Healthcare

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Ascension Decides Against World Commerce Center Development In Jacksonville

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Health care giant Ascension remains committed to building a $115 million hospital in Northern St. Johns County, but it has backed away from a site within the World Commerce Center masterplanned community that it had initially planned on, an Ascension spokesperson said by email.

“Our plans to build a hospital in northern St. Johns County continue as scheduled and we are still assessing multiple location options,” said spokesperson Kyle Sieg.

A representative of Steinemann & Company, which is developing World Commerce Center along I-95, said Ascension had signed a letter of intent to develop its hospital in the masterplanned community, but that agreement has been terminated. The site is still available for hospital use, the representative said.

David Meyer, chief strategy officer of Ascension Florida and Gulf Coast, previously told the Business Journal that St. Johns County’s fast-growing population and low per capita health care capacity made it it ripe for hospital construction.

Myer said the 60-bed St. Johns hospital will be modeled after the hospital Ascension built in Clay County six years ago. That facility opened as a 64-bed facility in 2014, expanded to 106 in 2016, then added another 30 beds in 2018.

Northern St. Johns County has attracted significant interest from health care companies in recent years. Flagler Health+ and UF Health are partnering on a $150 million campus, and Baptist Health has purchased a 35-acre site for its own campus.

However, Covid-19’s temporary prohibition against elective procedures, increased demand for medical supplies and drop in patient visits has hit health care systems revenues hard, causing many to pause construction plans. Ascension, which employs about 5,300 in Jacksonville, saw a net loss of more than $2 billion in the first quarter, but it has been buoyed by a $700 million line of credit, a $300 million bond and $2 billion in stimulus funds.

The company is underway on $800 million in construction across its 20-state footprint. In Jacksonville, it is underway on two emergency departments, finalizing construction of a $55 million Riverside facility and conducting a $23 million renovation of its Southside facility.

 

Source:  JBJ

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HCA Healthcare Acquires 55-Acre Land Parcel In Jacksonville For $16M

HCA Healthcare, the parent company of Memorial Hospital, has acquired a 55-acre land parcel in the Wildlight community of Jacksonville for $15.8 million. The property is located at northeast Interstate 95 and Florida A1A.

“This purchase will allow us to establish a future presence in Nassau County and to align with the planned growth in the region,” said Bradley Talbert, CEO of Memorial Hospital, in a statement.

Nearby the land parcel, Baptist Health acquired 26 acres at Florida A1A and Harper Chapel Road in May, and plans to build a 50,000-square-foot medical office building. Also nearby, UF Health Wildlight, a 23,331-square-foot medical office building, is currently under construction.

 

Source: Connect Florida

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Baptist Health Under Contract To Buy Coral Gables Dev Site

Baptist Health is under contract to pay $41.5 million for the development site of the Collection Residences in Coral Gables — a property at the center of contentious litigation between developers Masoud Shojaee and Ugo Colombo, court documents reveal.

The Baptist deal could close within two months.

Shojaee and Colombo had planned to jointly develop the Collection Residences, a mixed-use project with 128 condos and retail space at the 2.8-acre site at 250 Bird Road, 4101 Salzedo Street and 4112 Aurora Street before their partnership ended in dispute nearly three years ago.

Shojaee and Colombo, through their firms, jointly owned Coral Gables Luxury Holdings LLC, which planned to develop the project across the street from The Collection. Following a major falling out in November 2015, Shojaee and Colombo pulled out of their joint venture.

In January 2016, Shojaee’s Shoma Coral Gables filed suit against Colombo’s Gables Investment Holdings LLC; Colombo, individually; and The Collection LLC, Colombo’s Coral Gables luxury car dealership, alleging breach of contract, among other counts. Shojaee’s company alleged that Colombo and his companies breached their operating agreement. Earlier this month, the court dismissed Colombo as a defendant in the case.

The suit seeks between $4 million and $5 million in damages, said Shoma’s attorney Andrew Hall, founding partner of Hall, Lamb, Hall & Leto. A civil jury trial set to begin this week was delayed. Last week, Colombo’s firm filed a motion to dismiss the case, citing a contract with Baptist Health to purchase the development site.

“The company is essentially in liquidation mode with an executed contract of sale of its only asset — the property,” the motion states. “If following closing on the contract of sale to Baptist Hospital, [Shoma] receives back every dollar it invested, it will have no actual damage and its claims in this case will be entirely mooted.”

Hall said Shoma objects to dismissing the case. Robert Burlington, a partner in Coffee Burlington, who represents Colombo and his companies, declined to comment. Kathleen Moorman, vice president of Baptist Health Enterprises Real Estate and Development, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Baptist Health has been expanding throughout South Florida in recent years. It recently opened a four-story, 60,000-square-foot outpatient facility at Crescent Heights’ mixed-use development at 709 Alton Road in Miami Beach.

The 2016 suit tied to the Coral Gables site alleged that after Shoma refused to give in to Colombo’s demands, Colombo sabotaged the project, “causing substantial damages to Shoma.” Colombo responded to the lawsuit at the time, calling it “a frivolous lawsuit filed by a peculiar fellow.”

“There’s no question that there is an awful lot of money lost to engage in the development that shouldn’t have been lost,” Hall said, citing expenses including architectural engineering plans, sales office construction and operations. “Those millions of dollars were wasted and its seems to me that [Colombo’s CMC Group] needs to basically write the check because they did something they had no right to do, and make us whole.”

Colombo and Shojaee paid $27 million for the property in 2013, plus a $1 million bonus upon execution of a sale or lease of underground parking spaces to the Collection, and 10 percent of the gross rental income from any lease or the sales price for the purchase of any underground parking, according to the suit.

If the lawsuit goes to trial, Colombo’s firm’s motion to dismiss states that if Shoma proves a breach of contract and a jury awards its claimed out-of-pocket damage, Shoma cannot also receive anything from the closing on the sale of the property because it cannot have a double recovery.

But Hall said that even if the Baptist deal goes forward, the $4 million to $5 million is still lost. “It’s money we didn’t need to spend,” he said, ”and we are going to make them pay us back for that.”

Source: The Real Deal

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