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Jupiter Medical Center is seeking approval for another major expansion with a new bed tower and parking garage.
The Jupiter Town Council will consider the site plan amendment on April 4 for the nonprofit hospital’s 27.3-acre campus at 1210 Old Dixie Highway. The hospital currently has 248 beds.
JMC wants to build a 92-bed addition on the east side of its campus. The new building would total 135,000 square feet in five stories. To make room for it, the hospital would remove the 10,000-square-foot Ahlbin Administration Building and a temporary modular trailer that’s used for volunteer services.
In addition, it would construct a five-story parking garage with 845 spaces, including 80 electric vehicle charging spaces. That would boost the total parking on the JMC campus to 1,794 spaces.
JMC officials said the project would cost $110 million. It hopes to break ground later this year and complete it in mid-2025.
The hospital is already in the process of expanding. In 2022, it broke ground on a $100 million surgical institute, which was named after Johnny and Terry Gray following a big donation. JMC also announced plans to partner with UF Health to build a community hospital at Avenir in Palm Beach Gardens.
The application letter by planning firm Cotleur & Hearing stated the hospital had virtually no bed vacancy in summer 2022, which is usually its slow season. The new bed tower would support 31 additional doctors.
Source: SFBJ
In 2024, Jupiter Medical Center and UF Health hope to open a “neighborhood hospital” with an ER, inpatient beds, operating rooms and other services in Avenir, a new residential development in northwest Palm Beach County — another sign of a boomlet in hospital construction in Florida.
Through the first eight months of the year, the square footage of hospital construction in Florida was up 64% to 1.9 million square feet and the dollar value was up 125% to $1.15 billion, reports Dodge Construction Network.
Metro Jacksonville led the state in hospital construction starts by both dollar value and square footage, with Southeast Florida close behind.
Nationally, the trends also are up but not by nearly the same scale. Through August, hospital construction in the United States was up 24% in square footage and 26% in dollar value, Dodge says.
Kim Kennedy, director of forecasting for the Dodge Construction Network, which compiles the data, notes that Dodge puts the full dollar value and square footage of a project in the month the project starts. Because of that, big projects have a large impact on monthly totals for smaller geographies such as states and counties compared to the national numbers.
“That said, I think the hospital construction market both in Florida and across the U.S. has been a strong one this year,” she says.
Kennedy also says that rising costs of materials and construction wages likely are influencing the rise in the dollar value of projects started.
“With the exponential population growth in Palm Beach County and surrounding areas comes the need for innovative and diverse health care offerings,” UF Health President David R. Nelson said in announcing the Avenir project.
Source: Florida Trend
Jupiter Medical Center has a major expansion in the works, with a new surgical center to replace a skilled nursing building.
JMC is one of the few stand-alone hospitals left in South Florida, and it’s aiming to enhance its facilities to keep pace with competition.
The skilled nursing building on the southwest corner of the JMC campus would be demolished, and a two-story, 80,470-square-foot surgical center would be built in its place. It would include 18 operating rooms.
In addition, JMC is looking to expand its emergency department by 2,500 square feet, create eight rapid treatment stations, and construct a 6,200-square-foot addition to its central energy plant.
Patti Patrick, VP and chief strategy and growth officer at JMC, said the new Surgical Institute would be the biggest capital project in the hospital’s history and create more than 100 jobs.
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