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UF Health Continues Geographic Expansion With Acquisition Of Flagler Health+

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UF Health ushered in a big change to Northeast Florida health care when it completed its acquisition of Flagler Health+ in early September.

Flagler Health+ operated Flagler Hospital, a 335-bed facility in St. Augustine, as well as dozens of other smaller offices in or around Northeast Florida.

Since the acquisition, Flagler Hospital is now known as UF Health Flagler Hospital, and the overall system is called UF Health St. Johns.

UF Health St. Johns includes more than 1,900 employees, UF Health Flagler Hospital and nearly 30 care sites. It focuses on health care in Flagler, St. Johns, Putnam, Clay and Duval counties. Flagler Health+ has been in the community for 130 years.

In a video about the merger, David R. Nelson, senior vice president for health affairs at UF and UF Health president, says that UF Health offers additional financial and human resources, intellectual capital and innovation to the former Flagler health care system. Residents of the area and providers also will have expanded access to new clinical trials, and providers will have access to additional training programs, he adds.

Another addition for UF Health St. Johns will be a new technology strategy that will include integration of an electronic health record system across the health network and new clinical equipment, Nelson says.

When choosing a potential acquisition partner, leaders from Flagler Health+ aimed to find an organization that focused on quality enhancement, community-focused service lines such as behavioral health and women’s health, and high-quality health care services to underserved populations, among other factors.

Acquiring Flagler Health+ is part of UF Health’s expansion, which now includes 11 hospitals. Other recent acquisitions include UF Health The Villages (formerly The Villages Regional Hospital) and UF Health Leesburg Hospital (formerly Leesburg Regional Medical Center) in 2020.

 

Source:  Florida Trend

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Flagler Health+ Buys Property For New Hospital In Palm Coast Off US 1, Palm Coast Parkway

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Flagler Health+ purchased 70 acres of property in Palm Coast with plans to build a comprehensive health complex, including a hospital, on the west side of the U.S. 1 and Palm Coast Parkway intersection, officials announced.

“The scope and timing of the hospital campus project is still in development,” said hospital spokeswoman Gina Mangus in an emailed statement. “We are excited to bring locally based hospital care and more services to the region that truly serve the unique needs of this very special community.”

The hospital system paid more than $2.2 million for the property, according to Flagler County Chairman Joe Mullins.

This is the second new hospital announced in Flagler County this year. In January, AdventHealth, which operates the only operational hospital in the county, announced plans to construct a $145-million, 100-bed hospital off Palm Coast Parkway near Bridgehaven Drive. The hospital system broke ground in September and the facility is expected to open in the spring of 2023.

Palm Coast Mayor David Alfin said the city needs more health-care services.

“This will be another defining moment in the history of the City of Palm Coast as we welcome a second health-care service provider network into the city,” Alfin said Monday. “The demographic obviously supports health care and we look forward to the new arrival to broaden the variety of services and increase the service level of care to residents.”

Flagler Health+, which also operates Flagler Hospital in St. Johns County, did not provide details regarding cost, timeframe or a name for the new hospital.

“To ensure the community’s needs are being met, our strategy team conducted a market study which demonstrates that there is a need for additional outpatient care, acute care services and inpatient beds,” Mangus said in her statement. “With that, we are currently in discussions with UF Health regarding a collaborative approach to best achieve this.”

Mullins hopes the hospital will be up and running within the next year.

“They still need to go through planning and zoning,” he said.

But according to Mullins, Flagler Health+ will start collaborating with the county as early as next month with the addition of behavioral health services.

Flagler County’s Medical Needs

The county has been in talks with Flagler Health+ for the past two years, according to Mullins.

“We sat down with them a few years ago and have been working with them the last two years looking at locations,” Mullins said. “We’re very excited. They are committed to being a very strong community partner and have started working with us on mental health needs.”

The county, along with the cities of Palm Coast and Bunnell, have been working together to try and address the community’s medical needs, according to Mullins. Their hope is to turn Flagler County into a medical hub.

“This will bring high-paying jobs and services that the whole region can use, not just our county,” Mullins said. “They are recession-proof jobs. You just see an industry that is needed all the time.”

But for the moment, the most urgent needs are mental health services, labor and delivery, and other trauma-related services, according to Mullins.

“We need these services,” he said. “We have one of the top suicide rates in the state of Florida, no mental health services, zero labor and delivery and we’ve seen so many people come into the area that need them.”

Right now, AdventHealth Palm Coast is the only hospital in the county, and while it has stepped up to help care for the elderly in Flagler County, it has not been able to meet the additional needs for the younger population, according to Mullins.

Anyone needing labor and delivery or trauma services must travel to Volusia County to either Halifax Health or AdventHealth Daytona Beach or to Flagler Hospital in St. Johns County.

“As we step up as a community, these services are needed,” he said. “Flagler County is not gonna sit back and wait any longer for these things to happen. We’re going to get ahead of it.”

Adding another hospital will expand care options for residents across not just Palm Coast but the county as well.

“I think the market supports the competing health-care networks to the benefit of our residents,” Alfin said. “I believe there are enough patients and people who will use the hospital here to support what will now be three campuses. All of our residents in the City of Palm Coast will be in close proximity to all of the health-care services that they demand.”

Other Expansions By Flagler Health+

Flagler Health+ recently reached a clinical agreement with UF Health that includes expanding graduate medical education programs and an array of clinical services across Northeast Florida.

This will include new primary care sites in St. Johns and Flagler counties. Details have not yet been released as they are still under discussion, according to a hospital system press release.

Civil engineering work is currently underway on 7 acres that Flagler Health+ owns at the southwest corner of Matanzas Woods Parkway and Belle Terre Parkway where the it will build a signature health village, according to the release. The Palm Coast health village will incorporate family practice, behavioral health services, orthopedics, specialty care, imaging and laboratory services.

Flagler Health+ has already expanded its footprint in Flagler County with the addition of an orthopedics practice in the Palm Coast Town Center, a primary care office on Old Kings Road, and a virtual walk-in clinic located inside Publix.

In February, Care Connect+ also opened an office inside Flagler Health+ Specialty Care at 50 Cypress Point Parkway to better serve and coordinate care.

Care Connect+ awarded four Innovators Micro Grants to Flagler County nonprofit organizations to support programs for people experiencing homelessness, hunger, behavioral health issues, financial instability, or lack of access to transportation, medication or health care in Flagler County, according to the release.

 

Source:  The St. Augustine Record

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Stellar Breaks Ground On Sprawling Florida Health Campus

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Stellar has broken ground on the new Flagler Health+ campus in St. Johns County’s Durbin Park development.

The 42.5-acre health and wellness campus will feature a state-of-the-art hospital and outpatient surgery center as well as the signature Flagler Health+ Village concept.

Stellar, which provides award-winning construction management at-risk, design-build and general contracting services for a range of commercial and public sector markets, has partnered with architectural firm Gresham Smith for the six-year campus project. Outpatient clinical services are slated to open in early 2023, with completion of the entire three-phase project expected in 2027.

“Stellar is proud to be the design-builder for this new comprehensive health and wellness campus,” said Richard Lovelace, Senior Vice President, Commercial at Stellar. “After building two Health Villages for Flagler Health+ at Murabella and Nocatee, we are proud to continue our partnership and help bring innovative medical care to the Durbin Park community.”

The health village will incorporate family medicine, specialty care, urgent care, imaging, laboratory services, healthy lifestyle programming and community engagement space with an emphasis on integrating nature and technology to enhance experiences. Flagler Health+ Durbin Park will also include a premier wellness facility, walking trails and retail offerings.

“We are creating a premier health and wellness destination. The campus has been designed to create a sense of community, deliver uniquely personalized experiences, and achieve the best possible health outcomes for all people,” stated Flagler Health+ President and CEO Jason Barrett. “We are proud of our 130-year legacy of service to St. Johns County and look forward to further advancing physical, social and economic health for area residents with this new offering.”

The property is located between Interstate 95 and State Road 9B and is part of GATE Lands’ larger Durbin Park Development.

Flagler Health+ purchased the property located between Interstate 95 and State Road 9B from GATE Lands, the real estate subsidiary of GATE Petroleum Company. It is anticipated that the campus will add approximately 1,300 jobs to the area at completion of its buildout.

 

Source:  HC+O News

 

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Medical Campus Project Forges Ahead in Florida

Architecture and engineering firm Stellar has been selected by Flagler Health+ to design and build a $150 million health and wellness campus in the Durbin Park section of St. Johns County, to be sited between Interstate 95 and State Road 9B.

A recent release from Stellar, based in Jacksonville, said that the firm will be collaborating with Flagler Health+ and University of Florida Health on the project, whose conception entails medical residency programs, a hospital complex as well as educational opportunities for residents and fellows at the campus.  Furthermore, plans for down the road at the facility entail ambulatory medical services.

Architect Gresham Smith will collabrote with Stellar on the five-year, 42-acre buildout project, which is anticipated to break ground sometime this fall and be completed in 2025.

“Stellar is excited to be the design-builder for this innovative new concept in health and wellness,” Richard Lovelace, senior vice president, commercial at Stellar, said in a recent statement.  “After building two Health Villages for Flagler Health+ at Murabella and Nocatee, we are proud to continue our partnership and help bring comprehensive medical care to northern St. Johns County.”

 

Added Rick Bouchereau, vice president at architectural partner firm Gresham Smith, said in a statement that his firm is “honored to partner with Stellar on this transformative project for Flagler Health+ and this community. Our design for the Durbin Park campus will create a strong sense of place and embody Flagler Health+’s goals for a healthy community.”

Stellar employs nearly 800 professionals in such specialties as architecture, engineering and construction, and the firm specializes in construction management and design-build for projects around the nation.  In addition to healthcare, their portfolio entails construction in the recreation, hospitality, industrial and military sectors.

Healthcare provider Flagler Health+ maintains a healthcare presence specifically in Northeast Florida, inclusive of working with local schoolchidren to educate them about behavioral health.  Flagler Health+ falls under the umbrella of the 130-year-old Flagler Hospital, which is located in St. Augustine.

 

Source:  HC+O News

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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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