Mount Sinai Medical Center has completed a $275 million expansion with a new patient tower and emergency department.
The nonprofit hospitals in Miami Beach is now all private for its 400 rooms. This will be a major help in attracting patients, welcoming visitors to patient rooms, and keeping people safer, said MSMC President and CEO Steven Sonenreich.
The new hospital wing will open to patients on Feb. 2. A ribbon cutting was held Jan. 25.
With about 350,000 square feet of new space in the hospital, MSMC also ramped up its hiring. It added over 200 people, from clinical staff to operational support positions, he added.
“This is an enormous amount of capital deployment and it is having a big impact on the community,” Sonenreich said.
The new Skolnick Surgical Tower has 12 operating rooms and 154 patient rooms. The new operating rooms are equipped with the latest surgical technology and have enough room to accommodate future advances in medicine, Sonenreich said. There are also monitors so students and medical residents can watch surgeons performing procedures.
“There is no question that our surgical volume will be on the rise because we are recruiting more surgeons to our staff,” Sonenreich said. “And as we recruit them and they tour the facilities on this campus, that will be a great recruiting tool.”
The new facility was designed to withstand a Category 5 hurricane, and it was constructed at a high elevation to avoid sea level rise and flooding.
The new emergency department has 50 patient care rooms. Meanwhile, the old emergency department will be renovated to add another 16 rooms in modernized facilities. MSMC is also rebuilding its kitchen.
The architect of the project is CannonDesign. The building features original artwork from Anastasia Samoylova, María Martínez-Cañas, Mark Handforth, Rafael Domenech, Daniel Arsham, and Adler Guerrier.
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MedSquare Health, a $40 million, 116,000-square-foot, three-story Class A medical office building project is being developed by joint-owners AJP Ventures and Mas Group in Coral Gables. An official groundbreaking ceremony will be held at the site on March 6 at 10 a.m.
Cushman & Wakefield Managing Director Gordon Messinger will lead leasing for the property, marketing the space to a variety of tenants in the medical field. Asking rents will begin in the low $40s per square foot net.
MedSquare Health will be situated on 4.5 acres at the corner of SW 87th Ave. and SW 94th St., within the Baptist Hospital medical submarket, which is one of South Florida’s primary healthcare corridors. The project will be the first off-campus, Class A medical office building developed in the submarket in over 20 years. The site is also within walking distance to Baptist Hospital, which is South Florida-based Baptist Health’s largest facility and one of the largest hospitals in the nation.
“With its state-of-the-art design and central location, MedSquare Health will be South Florida’s premier medical office building, appealing to leading national, regional and local health care providers,” said Messinger.
The design of the LEED-certified building will be led by Modis Architects with careful attention to the quality of tenant and patient experience, from the work environment to outdoor gathering spaces, with an emphasis on maximizing natural light throughout with floor-to-ceiling glass windows. Dual entry will provide access from the adjoined, two-story parking garage as well as the prominent entrance on Galloway Road. Other building amenities include valet parking, a 7 per 1,000-square-foot parking ratio, an on-site café and shared conference room space.
“As the aging American population lives longer, it will continue to drive demand for healthcare real estate,” said Alberto J. Pérez, Founder and President of AJP Ventures. “MedSquare Health will fill a geographic gap for health professionals looking to better serve their patients. That includes aiding healthcare providers in all types of practice who are looking to open, relocate or expand in South Florida.”
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The Sarasota Memorial Health Care System has closed on the purchase of the former Sarasota Herald-Tribune building on Main Street where it plans to relocate more than 300 support-services personnel.
The hospital’s $17.3 million project includes renovating the three-story, 72,408-square-foot building on 3.8 acres at 1741 Main St. and constructing a one-story parking structure.
Moving the employees will free space for growth on the hospital’s main campus and improve “interdepartmental efficiencies” among support service departments scattered in different buildings, according to hospital officials.
The hospital paid $10.68 million for the building, spokeswoman Kim Savage said Wednesday. The proposal approved in October included $2.26 million to build the parking platform on top of the existing parking lot to add 90 spaces to the current 240 ground-level parking spots. The hospital board on Tuesday approved entering into a contract with A.D. Morgan Corp. of Bradenton to design and build it. Construction is estimated to take 10 weeks.
“We hope to move employees into the building this summer, but our plans depend on the amount of time it takes to obtain necessary permits and build the parking platform,” Savage said.
Once that construction and the building renovation is completed, employees will be moved over four to six weeks, she said. They will primarily work daytime hours Monday through Friday.
“Purchasing the former Herald-Tribune building is a good move for the hospital and the community,” hospital board member Tramm Hudson said. “It will allow us to expand clinical areas to better serve our growing community and relocate about 300 non-clinical staff members who now work in multiple sites to one downtown location.
“We believe centralizing those team members will enable greater collaboration and efficiencies as well as provide additional parking on our main campus for our patients and visitors,” Hudson said.
Local developer Wayne Ruben signed a contract in June to buy the building, most recently listed for $13.95 million, with unspecified plans to redevelop the property. Officials say he approached the hospital last summer about buying the property. Sarasota Memorial had been looking into constructing a new support services facility at its Clark Road campus.
Built in 2006, the building was first listed for sale at $18.1 million when it was fully leased to the Herald-Tribune and IberiaBank. The Herald-Tribune moved to the SunTrust building next door in February 2017 and the building has been vacant since SNN News Now left last month.
It had been owned by an affiliate of Halifax Media Holdings of Little Rock, Arkansas, which sold the newspaper to New Media Investment Group and Gatehouse Media in early 2015. The New York Times Co., a previous owner of the newspaper under which the building was constructed for about $18 million, sold the property for $17.4 million in 2012. It was designed by the Miami firm Arquitectonica with almost 2,000 panes of glass.
“It’s a terrific addition for that end of Main Street,”′ said Ian Black, whose commercial real estate firm’s Steve Horn represented the seller along with JLL’s Brent Miller.
The Sarasota Memorial Health Care System, an 839-bed regional medical center, is among the largest public health systems in Florida. It has more than 5,000 staff and 900 physicians, primarily in its main campus at 1700 S. Tamiami Trail.
Its growth has created space challenges. For example, the perioperative suite and cardiology department at Sarasota Memorial Hospital are hampered by their current space and lack of room to expand, hospital staff said in its recommendation to buy the building in October.
Under the plan, Sarasota Memorial plans to consolidate administrative functions that now are at four locations. Supply-chain management, corporate compliance, the First Physicians Group central business office and clinical business systems would be moved from the main campus.
The “revenue cycle” operation, which includes patient financial services and registration, will move from Hillview Street. The corporate finance department will relocate from Bee Ridge Road, and physician IT services will come from the Doctors Gardens building south of the hospital across Arlington Street.
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Boca Raton Regional Hospital has launched a campaign to raise $250 million for expanding, including the construction of a patient tower on its campus.
The announcement came as the nonprofit hospital prepares for a merger with Miami-based Baptist Health South Florida. That affiliate is expected to be finalized in summer 2019. However, BRRH will maintain its identity.
Its fundraising campaign has showcased how the Boca Raton hospital has one of the deepest donor networks in South Florida. It has already raised $115 million, with donations coming from board members Christine E. Lynn, Stanley and Marilyn Barry, Richard and Barbara Schmidt, Elaine J. Wold, and Louis B. and Anne W. Green.
“We stand at the threshold of an extraordinary future for Boca Raton Regional Hospital, one borne of a powerful and visionary long-term plan,” said BRRH President and CEO Jerry Fedele, who will retire after the Baptist Health deal is consummated. “As always, our supporters of the Hospital have demonstrated their spirit, commitment, and unflagging devotion by helping ensure these plans become reality. We all owe them a debt of gratitude for the sophisticated level of healthcare we will all enjoy as we move forward with this transformative initiative.”
The hospital hopes to expand its campus with a seven-story patient tower. This 180,000-square-foot building would include surgical suites, a patient lobby, and three floors set aside for future growth. The 400 rooms in the current hospital building would be converted to all private rooms with a major renovation, plus a 20-bed observation unit would be added.
BRRH also plans to build a 972-space parking garage.
“We’ve all come together in the spirit of Gloria Drummond, whose pioneering spirit helped build this hospital, to help take us to the next level as a healthcare provider,” said Lynn, chairman of BRRH. “We hope and expect those who care deeply about sophisticated world-class healthcare will embrace this effort and help us bridge the gap between the $115 million we’ve raised to date and the $250 million we need to move forward. Our community has always been there for the hospital, as demonstrably as the hospital has been there for the community.”
It is a $250 million project that brings Doral its first hospital.
Nestled right up next to the Palmetto Expressway and 25th Street, the Jackson West Medical Center is rising fast.
That’s not surprising considering that up 300 workers could be on the site at one time.
With an expected finish date of May 2020, the 100 bed hospital may look out of place in the midst of a warehouse industrial area.
“You have over 60,000 people who live here already full time, and approximately 50 to 70,000 people daytime that work here,” said Carlos Migoya, President of Jackson Health System.
Migoya says that the 585,000 residents living in and around the Doral, Sweetwater and Miami Springs area have dealt with increasingly frustrating traffic.
“The fact is Doral has grown tremendously and if you look at the five year plan, you will have more than 100,000 people living here,” said Migoya.
Other hospital organizations went to court to try and halt the project, saying that Doral was already well served by existing hospitals.
“If you live in Doral, the closest hospital here is seven miles,” said Migoya. “Seven miles in Doral is like dog years because of the traffic.”
The hospital will include an adult and pediatric emergency room, diagnostic center, outpatient clinics, a children’s clinic, a separate office facility and the 100 bed inpatient hospital.
Construction costs are covered by a bond issue and funds from Jackson Health System, which Migoya says is now earning money.
“The demographics here, the growth in Doral, there has been a need for a complete medical center,” said Migoya.
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