Baptist Health Fishermen’s Community Hospital Breaks Ground On Medical Arts Facility

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Baptist Health Fishermen’s Community Hospital has broken ground on its new medical arts building in Marathon, Florida.

Slated for completion in 2024, the building will enhance the vision of making Fishermen’s Community Hospital an all-inclusive medical campus, featuring Baptist Health Medical Group Primary Care physicians and specialty practices, rehabilitation services, an expanded infusion therapy center and more. This construction milestone comes more than a year after the hospital unveiled the new state of the art facility.

“Baptist Health is committed to supporting the overall health and well-being of the communities in the Florida Keys,” said Drew Grossman, CEO of Baptist Health Fishermen’s Community Hospital and Baptist Health Mariners Hospital. “The groundbreaking of the new medical arts facility will further allow us to provide the best healthcare to all residents and visitors alike.”

The new medical arts building at Baptist Health Fishermen’s Community Hospital will span 10,000 square feet, offering specialty services in orthopedics, hand surgery, general surgery, gastroenterology and more. Physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy and other rehabilitation services will also be on-site as well as infusion therapy, provided in collaboration with Miami Cancer Institute, part of Baptist Health Cancer Care, and multiple treatment rooms for patients.

Fishermen’s Community Hospital has been caring for the Florida Keys community since it first opened its doors in 1962. The hospital was then closed in September 2017 when Hurricane Irma caused extensive damage to much of the area. A field hospital was quickly opened to provide uninterrupted care to the community. In July 2018, Baptist Health replaced the field hospital with a modular facility, before opening the brand-new facility in 2021.

 

Source:  South Florida Hospital News

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Mayo Clinic In Florida Adding 210-Acre North Campus In Jacksonville

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Mayo Clinic in Florida, which opened 37 years ago in South Jacksonville, is adding a 210-acre North Campus to its San Pablo Road property.

That expands its 392-acre medical center property to 602 acres.

A master development plan dated Oct. 27, 2022, shows that Mayo still has land available for development at its Main Campus at 4500 San Pablo Road S., north of Butler Boulevard. The additional land is along W.M. Davis Parkway, northwest of the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Development of Regional Impact. It is a development plan that adds decades to Mayo Clinic in Florida’s ability to expand.

The Davis family, founders of the Winn-Dixie Stores Inc. supermarket chain, conveyed about 400 acres for the original campus, which Mayo opened in 1986. Duval County property records show that an entity of the Davis family conveyed the additional 210 acres to Mayo Clinic Jacksonville on Oct. 25, 2022.

The Jacksonville clinic was Mayo’s first facility opened outside of its home base in Rochester, Minnesota. It opened an Arizona campus in 1987. The story is that Davis family patriarch J.E. Davis, considered one of Jacksonville’s most powerful business leaders, was so pleased by the care he received at Mayo Clinic in Minnesota that he led the recruitment drive to bring Mayo to Jacksonville. That has led to a larger campus.

“Mayo Clinic in Florida plans to strategically grow across our 602 acres over several decades, spurring significant economic development and creating thousands of new jobs in the medical sector,” said spokesperson Kevin Punsky in an email Jan. 31.

The statement said:

“Mayo Clinic plans to further expand and enable our vision of a truly unique health care ecosystem that leverages the most advanced spaces and technologies to support our clinical practice, education, research and innovation activities for the remainder of this century.”

Punsky,  Mayo Clinic in Florida communications manager, said the plan “will deliver best-in-class facilities, immersive and experimental learning environments, and innovation technology hubs that drive strategic collaborations dedicated to advancing scientific discoveries.”

The property land uses for the additional acreage are designated as medical, related residential and hotel.

Those are similar to the uses at Mayo’s Main Campus at southeast San Pablo Road and W.M. Davis Parkway. W. M. Davis was the father of J.E. Davis and considered the founding father of Winn-Dixie.

 

City Council Legislation

Mayo Clinic Jacksonville submitted an application Nov. 28 to the city for changes to the DRI for the expansion. City Council will review Ordinance 2023-13 to approve the changes.  A public hearing is scheduled Feb. 14 at Council and Feb. 22 at the Council Land Use and Zoning Committee. The committee introduced legislation to amend the Mayo DRI, which was approved in 1988 and modified and amended. The phasing and build-out also has been extended. The build-out now is extended to 2045 with a total 7.5 million square feet of primarily medical-related facilities, along with hotel rooms. Punsky explained that the DRI amendment would be extended two years through 2045, but the additional property gives the medical center enough property to grow for 100 years.

DRIs in Florida were reviewed by the state to identify the regional and state impacts of large-scale developments. In 2018, the state eliminated the review process for existing DRIs, leaving that to local governments.

The Smith Hulsey & Busey law firm and the Prosser Inc. civil engineering firm are the agents.

The application says standalone commercial, office or residential uses will be permitted within the North Campus through converted related medical and support facilities or hotel facilities.

Punsky said the 210 acres were not part of a DRI and were approved for multiuse residential. Once the land is added to the DRI, Mayo will need to amend the land use and rezone the property.

Investment Tops $1 Billion 

Mayo Clinic in Florida says that in the 37 years since it opened in Jacksonville, it has grown from a single five-story building to three main patient care buildings, a hospital, two research buildings and a collection of free-standing clinical care facilities, administrative buildings and support centers.

Mayo Clinic’s campus in Florida started with 35 physicians and 145 support staff. Today, the campus has about 9,000 employees.

Mayo Clinic in Florida says it provides diagnosis, medical treatment, surgery and care for more than 168,000 patients annually in 40 specialty areas. It says that since 2016, it has invested more than $1 billion in major construction projects, more than doubling its space by 2026 with new facilities for patient care, biomedical research, education and technology. The major projects include the Discovery and Innovation Building and the Dorothy J. and Harry T. Mangurian Jr. Building.

Mayo Clinic will add more than 600,000 square feet of space for medical destinations, patient care, biomedical research and technology by 2025. The opening of Mayo helped establish health care as one of Jacksonville’s major industries.

 

Source:  Jacksonville Daily Record

 

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AdventHealth Breaks Ground On $45.7M Daytona Beach Medical Office Buillding/Surgery Center

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Residents of east Volusia County will soon have a new and convenient option for outpatient surgical services.

AdventHealth has broken ground on an ambulatory surgery center (ASC) that will provide a wide range of procedures including cardiac, general surgery, orthopedics, and several other specialties. The building is on AdventHealth’s existing Daytona Beach campus on Memorial Medical Parkway.

The 3-floor, 60,000-square-foot building will contain four operating rooms and two catheterization labs, and will be the medical office home to the Cardiology Physicians Group and North Florida Surgeons specialty group.

It is slated to open in January 2024.

“We look forward to adding this beautiful facility to the AdventHealth Daytona Beach campus,” said David Weis, president & CEO of AdventHealth Daytona Beach. “This project represents an exciting collaboration with two of the leading independent physician groups in our area and will be a destination center for cardiovascular, surgical, and women’s outpatient care.”

Outpatient surgery centers are not only convenient, offering an excellent patient experience, but also provide lower-cost options for the community to access high-quality care.

On the first floor of the building will be a 6,500-square foot AdventHealth cardiac rehabilitation clinic, imaging services, and an 8,300-square-foot surgical clinic for North Florida Surgeons. The second floor will house a 20,000-square-foot cardiology clinic for Cardiology Physicians Group, and the third floor will have a 20,000-square-foot ambulatory surgery center (ASC) that will be used by both medical groups and a number of other independent and AdventHealth Medical Group physicians.

“We see a great benefit to offering a separate venue for outpatient procedures,” said Dr. Dinesh Arab of Cardiology Physicians Group, who serves as director of interventional cardiology at AdventHealth Daytona Beach. “This facility will allow a seamless way for patients who don’t require acute care to have their procedures done quickly and conveniently.”

 

“North Florida Surgeons is excited to partner with AdventHealth in building this cutting-edge outpatient surgical facility,” added Dr. Mark White of North Florida Surgeons. “Having our office in the same building makes it very convenient for our patients to get 5-star surgical care all in one facility.”

The $45.7 million building is a joint venture between AdventHealth and health care real estate services firm Meadows & Ohly. The architect on the project is Hunton Brady, and the general contractor is Brasfield & Gorrie.

 

 

Source:  FlaglerLive.com

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Billionaire Citadel CEO Makes $25M Donation To Nicklaus Children’s Hospital For New Surgical Tower

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Billionaire and Citadel CEO Ken Griffin has donated $25 million to Nicklaus Children’s Hospital, one of the largest single donations in the hospital’s 72-year history.

The money will help fund a five-story surgical tower, now under construction and set to open in 2024. The tower, which will be named the Kenneth C. Griffin Surgical Tower, will house pre-and post-surgical care suites, and will utilize the latest tech to boost patient care, including robotics, augmented and virtual reality.

The hospital says Griffin’s donation will help support its pediatric care for the brain, cancer, blood disorders, the heart and orthopedics.

 

Source:  Miami Herald

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Florida Tech, New Mexico College To Launch New Medical School

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Melbourne-based Florida Institute of Technology will host a medical school in partnership with a private New Mexico college.

The Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine and Florida Tech have signed an affiliation agreement which will establish a four-year osteopathic medical school in Melbourne.

Florida Tech will host the college on its campus through the sublease of roughly 40,000 square feet of space in the L3Harris Commons and share resources when it comes to library, dining and student housing.

The school, which will be Brevard County’s first college of medicine, currently is going through the accreditation process. The college plans to start with a class of 100 students in July 2024, who would graduate in May 2028.

Florida Tech Interim President Robert King told Orlando Business Journal a driving force for the affiliation was opportunities for students and faculty.

“We’ve made a significant commitment to broadening our offerings in biomedical engineering, so when this opportunity developed, this was a perfect fit for us and our students,” King said. “We have a number of students who go on to medical school and the notion if they go onto this pathway program and they can be guaranteed admission, it works for them and for Burrell.”

The partnership will allow physicians to work in Florida Tech labs on the research side, King added.

Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine operates a regional academic center in the county which has been here for three years, but only services students in their third and fourth years for medical clerkship rotations. John L. Hummer, co-founder and president of Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, said Florida is a good fit because the state provides the third-highest number of student applicants to the college each year.

“It was natural to do this to meet the need of the student body coming from Florida,” Hummer said.

Meanwhile, Florida is expected to have a shortage of 18,000 physicians by 2035, according to a 2021 study from The Safety Net Hospital Alliance of Florida and the Florida Hospital Association.

 

Source:  OBJ

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