This innovative model is now being closely studied by Florida State University (FSU) and leaders in Tallahassee as they explore options for transforming the city’s flagship hospital, Tallahassee Memorial HealthCare (TMH), into an academic medical center.
The facility, pending state approval, would be constructed on 16.5 acres of land.
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).
St. Joe Company, Tallahassee Memorial Hospital, and Florida State University are partnering on a new hospital in Panama City Beach.
“The goal is pretty simple. It’s to bring in more convenient health care services to residents on the beach,” St. Joe Commercial Real Estate Senior Vice President Dan Valazquez said. “This campus would just provide another health care option for those residents that may not necessarily want to travel 15 or 20 miles for health care services.”
But it’s going to provide much more than just healthcare. Medical students from FSU’s medical school will be rotating into this facility to get practical experience.
“The hospital will also be home to a variety of educational and research programs,” Panama City Beach Mayor Mark Sheldon said. “In partnership with FSU, it provides an opportunity for residency programs and clinical rotations for FSU medical students.”
The hospital will help keep physicians in the community during a national shortage as well.
“We know that physicians tend to remain in the communities where they train,” Sheldon said. “This truly allows us to expand our health care foundation and provide more opportunities for those medical students who want to remain in Panama City Beach.”
Construction on this first medical facility began in January 2022.
“This first medical office building will offer an array of services, including primary care, urgent care, cardiology, orthopedics, and up to five ambulatory surgery centers,” Valazquez said.
Work will continue on a 100-bed hospital and more facilities that will comprise an 87-acre medical campus.
This first medical facility should be complete and operational by the summer of 2024.
Source: mypanhandle.com
Site work has begun on a new 87-acre medical complex in Panama City Beach, Fla., that will include an ASC, facilities for orthopedic surgery and cardiology, a hospital, urgent care and primary care, according to an Aug. 29 report from the Panama City News Herald.
The center is being built through a partnership between Tallahassee (Fla.) Memorial Healthcare, Tallahassee-based Florida State University and St. Joe Company, a developer.
The hospital building was originally slated to open with 30 to 40 inpatient beds, before expanding to 100 down the line, but due to demand, the facility may need all 100 beds now, according to the report.
The medical office building on the currently-unnamed campus is expected to open sometime in 2024, with the hospital set to open in 2027.
“There’s a lot of great hospitals in this area, but [they] are a distance away,” Andrew Starr, chief health operations officer at Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare, told the Herald. “That [creates] a real opportunity [for this campus], and also a situation that needs to be bridged as you have more and more citizens moving into this immediate area and the surrounding areas. Having a healthcare infrastructure to further support the growth and population is not a want, it’s a need.”
Source: Becker’s ASC Review