New Lakeland VA Clinic Opens As Polk County’s Veteran Population Grows

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For veterans living in Polk County, the only option to get to a VA hospital was to drive to Tampa or to Orlando, but now there’s a closer option.

James A Haley Veterans’ Hospital hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new Lakeland VA Clinic, located at 2080 Meadowland Park Boulevard in south Lakeland.

It’s a 121,000 square foot out-patient facility that offers patients access to primary care, mental healthcare, pharmacy, audiology and much more. It’s all to accommodate a growing veteran population in Polk County and the state.

The veteran population from St. Pete/Tampa to Orlando to Gainesville is growing between 3-9% each year.

The clinic, the veterans’ hospital’s third largest, will have double the staff and will be able to serve around 20,000 patients annually, which is five times the number than their previous clinic on Pipkin Road.

Source:  Fox 13 News

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Varde, Unity Medical Partner Up For Palm Beach Gardens Office Acquisition

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Värde Partners and Unity Medical Properties are partnering up to acquire a medical office building in Palm Beach Gardens.

An affiliate of Värde, a Minneapolis-based global investment firm, and Unity, a Monterey, California-based medical office real estate investment firm, paid $14.5 million for Laser and Surgery Center of the Palm Beaches. The joint venture also obtained $8.7 million in seller financing, records and real estate database Vizzda show.

The seller, an affiliate of Denver-based Healthpeak Properties, paid $14 million in 2015 for the single-story building that sits on 1.9-acres on 3602 Kyoto Gardens Drive, records show.

 

Source:  The Real Deal

 

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Winter Park Approves Medical Office Off Of Lakemont Avenue

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A developer that is seeking approval for a pair of Winter Park office building projects received the go-ahead for one of the properties on a prominent corner near the AdventHealth Winter Park campus, despite concerns about how it will impact traffic on Lakemont Avenue.

On June 25, the Winter Park City Commission unanimously approved a two-story, 17,626-square-foot medical office building on a 1.2-acre lot on the northwest corner of Lakemont Avenue and Aloma Avenue. The developer, Verax Investments, purchased the property in February for $3.27 million.

The project first went before the Planning and Zoning Commission in June. During the meeting, the Commission voted to advance the project with a handful of conditions, such as the construction of a six-foot wall made of stone, concrete, or masonry along the northern property line to provide a buffer to the adjacent residential homes.

A site plan indicates that the building will rise at the front of the property, with a surface-level parking lot to the north and the west. The developer also plans on preserving a historic oak tree on the far southeastern corner of the site.

Architecture firm Zyscovich and landscape architecture firm Magley Design are also working on the project.

Verax Investments also has plans to build another office building on a 1.13-acre lot at 1801 W Fairbanks Ave. The company purchased the land in July 2023 for $2.49 million and intends to build a two-story, 18,790-square-foot office building with parking to the rear of the site.

 

Source:  GrowthSpotter

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The St. Joe Company, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare Announce Opening Of Medical Campus In Panama City Beach

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The building is the first of several planned for the 87-acre campus being jointly planned and developed by St. Joe, TMH and Florida State University (FSU).

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Florida Blue And Guidewell To Open 3 More Sanitas Medical Centers In Jacksonville

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Florida Blue and its parent company, GuideWellMutual Holding Company, are working on three more Sanitas Medical Centers in Jacksonville after opening the first in January in the Regency Park shopping center.

Aleizha Batson, Florida Blue senior regional communications lead for North Florida, said July 10 that the next three are anticipated to open Jan. 1, 2025.

Those are in the Windy Hill, Duclay and Hyde Park neighborhoods, she said.

The city is reviewing a permit application for the Windy Hill center at 11160 Beach Blvd., Unit 128, in the St. Johns Square II shopping center at southwest Beach Boulevard and St. Johns Bluff Road.

Skyline Construction Inc. is the contractor for the estimated almost $1.8 million tenant build-out of 5,025 square feet of space. Plans indicate six exam rooms along with a lobby, dispensary, administration and physician offices and other space.

Gensler is the architect. Guidewell Sanitas I LLC is the business owner.

No locations are given for the Duclay or Hyde Park centers. Batson said July 11 those leases have not been signed. Duclay is in the Blanding Boulevard and Interstate 295 area of Southwest Jacksonville. Hyde Park is in the area of Normandy Boulevard and I-295 in West Jacksonville.

“Florida Blue’s mission is to help people and communities achieve better health. Central to our commitment to the Jacksonville community is ensuring that we increase access to affordable, high-quality, and patient-centered health care in the region,” Batson said in an email.

The medical care centers serve Florida Blue customers, original Medicare and self-paying patients ages 50 and older. The health centers serve as the primary care provider and serve walk-in patients, but do not have emergency room services.

In addition to Regency Park, “we are bringing additional Florida Blue | Sanitas Medical Centers and their innovative comprehensive care model to the area,” Batson said.

Batson said the Florida Blue Sanitas Medical Center at Beach Boulevard will have “dedicated care teams to provide Florida Blue members personalized and comprehensive primary care, walk-in care, pharmacy dispensing, diagnostics and testing, as well as educational programs for wellness, mental health and management of ongoing health concerns.”

She said virtual care also will be available and patients can schedule a visit with their care team from home, or wherever convenient, for management of chronic conditions, help with medications, coordination of care and social support. Patients can also access immediate care with 24/7 on-demand virtual support via phone, video or chat.

In addition to examination rooms, the facility has an on-site lab, pharmacy, X-ray, electrocardiogram and ultrasound testing. \

Sanitas is headquartered in Bogota, Colombia, in South America.

Its website lists 67 offices in the United States in Florida, New Jersey and Tennessee. The 56 in Florida comprise 15 each in Miami and Orlando, nine in Broward, six each in Palm Beach and Tampa, four in Tallahassee and one in Jacksonville.

 

Source:  Jacksonville Daily Record

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