AdventHealth To Expand Downtown Emergency Department

 

AdventHealth has plans to further expand on its main downtown Orlando hospital campus with additional emergency department space.

The health care provider filed documents to build a 45,000-square-foot expansion of the Ginsburg Tower’s emergency department. The expansion will include 21 adult emergency bays, a resuscitation room and three isolation rooms, AdventHealth spokesman David Breen told Orlando Business Journal.

The cost of the project and a construction timeline were not immediately available.

The move follows the health care provider announcing a 13,200-square-foot expansion to its cardiovascular institute back in October. That expansion, dubbed the Center for Living, includes a genomic center focused on cardiovascular issues. Construction is expected to start in first-quarter 2019 and be completed by the end of 2020.

The Alan Ginsburg Family Foundation donated $3 million for the facility. The foundation, named after area real estate developer Alan Ginsburg, previously donated $20 million in 2007 toward the $255 million, 440-bed Ginsburg Tower.

AdventHealth’s parent company, Adventist Health System, is the second-largest employer in the area with more than 83,000 employees for 2018. The health care system operates nearly 50 hospital campuses and hundreds of care sites across the U.S. in almost a dozen states and serves more than 5 million patients each year.

Founded in 1908, the $3.36 billion nonprofit AdventHealth’s holdings in the area include:

  • 10 local hospitals in downtown Orlando, Altamonte Springs, Winter Park, east Orlando, Celebration, Kissimmee, Longwood and Apopka
  • The freestanding emergency room in Winter Garden, which now has a 72,000-square-foot, three-story medical office building and plans to build a 100-bed inpatient hospital tower there.
  • 24 Centra Care (urgent care) centers and 2 Kids Urgent Care centers
  • 24 imaging and diagnostic centers
  • 15 Lab Care locations
  • 18 Sports Medicine & Rehab locations2,500-plus doctors in 123 medical specialties

 

Source: OBJ

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Miami Plans Possible $125 Million Project To Build STEM Facilities

Miami University is currently seeking builders and designers to plan two potential new buildings: a health sciences facility and a STEM/innovation building. The project is estimated to cost Miami a total of $125 million.

These facilities would provide opportunities for research and collaboration between scientific disciplines. In planning these projects, Miami hopes to expand its nursing, technology and engineering programs, among others.

The plan is a result of Miami’s Boldly Creative Initiative, which was announced by President Greg Crawford in 2018. The initiative “will emphasize data, analytics and programs that span traditional disciplines to create engaged citizens and workplace leaders to benefit the Ohio economy,” according to a report by the Cincinnati Business Courier.

David Creamer, vice president for finance and business services at Miami, said that the $125 million price tag is not definite.

“The estimate is just to convey the size and scope that the project would entail,” Creamer said.

Construction of these facilities would most likely cause an increase in student enrollment at Miami due to demand for these expanded programs, Creamer said. However, he does not anticipate a need for additional student housing to accommodate this possibility.

The new facilities would be designed with sustainability in mind, as all new construction at Miami is held to a minimum standard of LEED Silver certification, Creamer said.

According to the U.S. Green Building Council, a building that earns at least 50 points in rating categories such as water efficiency, indoor environmental quality and innovation is certified Silver. However, whether or not these buildings are significantly more sustainable than regular ones is up for debate. Some environmentalists argue that a Silver certification is easily reached through simple feature modifications.

Jamie Kent, a senior zoology major with a pre-medical studies co-major, is involved in undergraduate research at Miami through the Broadening Undergraduate Research Participation (BURP) program. Kent said it was difficult to find a research opportunity on campus, but that her experience has helped her explore the different career possibilities available to her as a STEM major.

“Having facilities that present more research opportunities would allow more students to gain valuable research experience,” Kent said.

The possibility of collaborative research across multiple disciplines also piqued Kent’s interest. She said that working within a broader variety of subjects would allow students to more easily discover their passions.

“Lots of students feel confined to their majors, so interdisciplinary research would be a great opportunity for them to break out of their usual studies,” Kent said.

While the university has not yet determined whether it wants to go forward with these projects, it is actively soliciting applications through a request for qualifications.

“The university dedicating funds to facilities such as these demonstrates its commitment to undergraduate research,” Kent said.

Source: The Miami Student

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USF Takes Shine Off Its New Water Street Tampa Med Shool Building After Glare Hits Pilots

The new University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine and Heart Institute at Water Street Tampa was meant to be eye-catching, but not like this.
In early January, the Hillsborough County Aviation Authority got word that glass on the unfinished 13-story building was reflecting glare at planes using Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Islands.
Since then, USF Health has worked with its design-build team on the project, Skanska USA and HOK. Skanska said in a statement that it applied a temporary film to reduce reflection during construction and will “continue to work closely with USF and Peter O. Knight Airport to monitor for any reflection issues.” Skanska also plans to install sun shades on the building that are expected to reduce reflected sunlight.
Adding the non-reflective film is not expected to increase the $172 million cost for the medical school, which is expected to be an anchor project at the $3 billion Water Street Tampa development when USF’s showpiece opens late this year.

“We are confident our contractors are using appropriate measures to address the issue,” USF spokeswoman Althea Paul said in an email to the Tampa Bay Times. “The airport has informed us that they’re no longer receiving any complaints.”

Before construction began in 2017, USF Health got a waiver for the building’s 293-foot height (305 feet when you measure from sea level), because the medical school was about 1.7 miles north of the airport. The Aviation Authority has to approve height waivers for tall buildings that are near enough to the airport to cause potential problems for pilots.
When the authority approves such waivers — as it has for the new 309-foot-tall JW Marriott hotel at Water Street, a 314-foot-tall apartment tower at Water Street and the planned 393-foot-tall Elevé 61 condo tower in the Channel District — it typically requires red aircraft warning lights on top of the buildings and requires developers to agree to address any glare or glint problems to its satisfaction during construction.

“We’re aware that there were glare issues,” airport spokeswoman Janet Scherberger said. “We’ve worked with the developer, and they were mitigated.”

Source: Tampa Bay Times
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Aventura Medical Tower Obtains Certificate Of Occupancy, Marks Milestone For Aventura’s Newest Medical Office Condo

The Faith Group is proud to announce that Aventura Medical Tower (pictured left-click on the image to enlarge), Aventura’s first medical office and condo project, located In the Aventura Hospital Distict at 2801 NE 213th Street in Aventura, obtained its Certificate of Occupancy (CO).

Obtaining the CO marks The Faith Group’s tremendous success in moving the project to completion.

The ‘medical condominium ‘designed by doctors for doctors’ totals twelve floors comprised of 7 parking levels with 472 spaces and 5 floors of office suites, housing approximately 105,000 square feet. The project also features just over 5,000 square feet of premium ground floor retail/clinical service space.

Suites are being delivered as gray shell, and, Faith Development, the development arm of The Faith Group, is offering build-to-suit options for buyers.

“The health care sector is a major component of Faith Development’s commercial portfolio and we’re extremely proud to bring this project to fruition,” commented Faith Development Senior Vice President Richard Faith.

The tower broke ground in June 2016 and more than 250 physicians, staff, community members, volunteers and elected officials including Enid Weisman, Mayor of the City of Aventura, helped commemorate the topping off event.

“We worked closely with the city of Aventura throughout the development process, along with the entire community, all of whom were very receptive,” added Roderick Faith, also a Senior Vice President with Faith Development. “All other occupancy opportunities in the Aventura area are mixed-use with limited parking and no physician referral capability. Owning your own medical office space makes sense now and will be even more imperative to secure your independent practice future. We are proud to have the best medical groups onsite.”

The tower is being marketed to doctors and other healthcare providers – tenants that can enjoy and take full advantage of the building’s amenities which include:

Private outdoor patios for some of the 8th floor Doctor’s suites
-On site surgical center being planned
-Collegial medical environment
-Tranquil outdoor waiting level
-Peaceful employee break location
-Energy efficient impact resistant glass
-ADA compliant
-Full service valet
-State-of-the-art energy-efficient building
-Parking provided in excess of local code requirements
-7 levels of covered parking with reserved spaces

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Major Medical Center Now Part Of $4B SoLe Mia Development In North Miami

The University of Miami Health System reported on Tuesday that it plans to develop a world class medical center at the $4-billion SoLé Mia mixed-use development in North Miami.

The medical center will total approximately 225,000 square feet of space, with an additional 100,000 square feet available for future expansion. The project will be built on approximately10-acre site of the 184-acre property being developed by the Soffer family of Miami and the LeFrak family of New York City.

“As the sole academic health system in the region, and with internationally recognized clinical research programs, the University of Miami is leading the transformation of health care,” says Dr. Julio Frenk, president of the University of Miami. “This new facility, with the high-quality, specialized care it will offer to the surrounding communities, builds upon the longstanding partnership that the university has with our South Florida neighbors.”

The medical center will include health services by the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, as well as ambulatory care; cardiology; neurology; otolaryngology; urology and orthopedics, as well as a host of other specialties.

No development cost for the project was released by the University of Miami Health System.

The medical center will also feature an adjoining parking garage, direct access from Biscayne Boulevard, open green space including a reflection garden, and views of the ocean and lagoons designed to enhance the experience for patients receiving extended services in the infusion and chemotherapy unit, the university notes. The medical center is also anticipated to include a bridge to a new hotel.

“Creating this new facility brings the clinical excellence and innovation of UHealth physicians further into our community, increasing access for our patients in north Miami-Dade and south Broward,” said Dr. Edward Abraham, executive vice president of health affairs and CEO of UHealth.

The Soffer-LeFrak partnership expects the overall project will take 10 years to 15 years to build out. Plans call for 12 residential towers, 500,000 square feet of retail and commercial space that will be anchored around Laguna SoLé, South Florida’s first seven-acre swimmable Crystal Lagoon. SoLé Mia’s first two residential towers, The Shoreline, are open, featuring studio, one-, two-, and three-bedroom rentals.

“I’m bullish on North Miami and the impact SoLé Mia will have on the community, especially as we continue to add invaluable partners like UHealth to our master project that’ll offer everyone who enters a city-within-a-city experience complete with state-of-the-art residences, scenery, restaurants, and now, healthcare,” said Richard LeFrak, chairman and CEO of LeFrak.

North Miami City Manager Larry Spring pointed out the UHealth project will not only bring new jobs to North Miami, but will also enhance the region’s healthcare services.

This is a milestone, representing the start of the next phase of the SoLé Mia development project and its positive impact on the North Miami economy and overall experience,” Spring said. “We are excited to welcome such an iconic and far reaching institution as the University of Miami to our city.”

Source: GlobeSt.

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