Mount Sinai Medical Center is seeking city approval that could allow it to transform its Aventura emergency and outpatient campus into a full-service hospital with inpatient beds, specialty care and structured parking.
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Mount Sinai Medical Center acquired an auto dealership site in the Westchester neighborhood of western Miami-Dade County for $32 million.
The property last traded for $5.65 million in 2012.
Magic 8th LLC sold the 5.6-acre site at 8250 and 8200 SW Eighth St. to the nonprofit hospital based in Miami Beach. It currently has a 25,046-square-foot auto dealership that was built in 1974.
Source: SFBJ
Mount Sinai Medical Center joined City of Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber in his State of The City Address to announce the building of the Irma and Norman Braman Cancer Center on their main campus in Miami Beach.
The new building is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2025.
The Braman Cancer Center will create the needed access to clinical expertise, robust support services, research, trials, and the newest technologies, all housed in an ultramodern facility, with exceptional views of Biscayne Bay. Individuals will receive the clinical and supportive care in a light-filled, spacious, healing environment, centered on delivering an unparalleled patient experience.
Mount Sinai’s nationally recognized cancer program is further enhanced by its affiliation with Columbia University, allowing for greater access to biomedical research, education, and training. The physicians of the Braman Cancer Center also serve as associate professors at Columbia University, ensuring continued collaboration and expertise in treating cancer. Treatment plans are informed and reviewed by both organizations, ensuring the most sophisticated, evidence-based methods of preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer.
The medical center also welcomes a new cancer center director, Steven Hochwald, MD, MBA, FACS. A leading pancreatic and gastrointestinal surgical oncologist, and an avid researcher, Dr. Hochwald was recruited from Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, an NCI-designated institution. Dr. Hochwald’s research focuses on technical advances in minimally invasive upper gastrointestinal surgeries and developing new targets and agents for treatment of pancreatic and gastroesophageal malignancies.
“We are beginning a new phase of a truly patient-centric approach to cancer care,” said Norman Braman. “The investments we are making in expanding the expert medical staff, new technologies, and the building of a modern facility will create an unparalleled experience while expanding resources and access for all.”
The new cancer center will occupy over 200,000 square feet, and it will support the medical center’s expert physicians in delivering leading-edge cancer care to all patients. All treatment and chemotherapy rooms will have stunning views of Biscayne Bay, adding to the long list of features aimed at providing a truly patient-centric approach to cancer care.
The Braman Cancer Center will also offer patients a multitude of support services to engage individuals and promote a holistic approach to their well-being. These services include nutrition classes, physical therapy, massage, meditation classes, a dedicated spa, and more.
The center will continue to offer same- or next-day appointments, and expanded telemedicine appointments for patients seeking care. Furthermore, the new building will greatly increase the capacity for oncology urgent care services, allowing for expeditious assessment and early intervention to avoid unplanned emergency department visits and unnecessary hospitalization for patients who are already immunocompromised.
“With cancer incidences in South Florida expected to rise 12 percent by the end of the decade, the Bramans have made a truly transformational gift to our community that will expand access for all those who seek care,” said Mark H. Hildebrandt, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Mount Sinai Medical Center. “As pillars in South Florida, the Bramans continue to make an indelible impact through their generous contributions and engagements, and this is no exception. Throughout the years, their collective efforts continue to build a stronger, healthier community for all.”
With a focus on physical and emotional well-being, the Braman Cancer Center will provide an unmatched, personalized patient and caregiver experience. Every patient will have access to extensive support services, complimentary therapies, and the newest in radiation oncology and surgical technology.
Source: South Florida Hospital News
Health care costs in Florida are under a microscope as House Speaker Jose Oliva pushes an ambitious goal of scaling back state health spending.
But Oliva’s promises to lower health-care costs have not prevented House and Senate members from requesting money for everything from hospital construction projects to increased access to medication-assisted treatment for opioid addiction to providing care to survivors of human trafficking.
Lawmakers have submitted hundreds of millions of dollars in funding requests for health-care related projects during the legislative session that starts March 5. The proposals are filed for communities across the state and target programs for poor, elderly and disabled Floridians and people with substance-abuse disorders and mental-health needs.
One proposal, for example, would provide $10 million to UF Health Jacksonville hospital to help renovate its trauma center, while other proposals would send $1.6 million to Doctors Memorial Hospital in Bonifay for a rural health clinic and $4.2 million to Mount Sinai Medical Center in Miami Beach to redesign space to accommodate four additional generators.
The News Service of Florida reviewed hundreds of funding requests that were submitted by lawmakers and labeled as being for health and human services. House and Senate committees and budget negotiators ultimately will decide during the session whether the proposals will be funded in the 2019-2020 budget.
As of Monday, more than $223 million had been requested by senators for 178 different proposals, according to a tally maintained by Senate budget staff.
Sen. Aaron Bean, a Fernandina Beach Republican who chairs the Senate Health and Human Services Appropriations Subcommittee, said the number of requests will continue to climb.
“I think it’s going to be a huge number,” Bean said .
Bean said he’s been warning members that they could be disappointed given the state’s latest financial outlook.
“It’s going to be a challenge to meet the needs of everything for health care,” he said.
State economists met last week to analyze Medicaid enrollment and spending and to develop estimates that lawmakers will use in drafting the budget for the fiscal year that starts July 1.
Economists concluded that continuing to run Medicaid at current levels will cost $28.1 billion in the upcoming fiscal year. That means lawmakers would need to come up with $164.2 million more in state money than what they currently are spending if they want to avoid cutting programs.
The most-current projections were higher than what was originally estimated. Economists attributed the difference to an increase in the number of patients being served in Medicaid program and to higher-than-anticipated payments for the Medicaid managed-care program and community mental-health services.
The requests for more funding also come as House leaders focus on driving down overall health-care costs. Oliva wants to lower costs by increasing the numbers of providers who can offer care and giving patients alternatives to hospitals.
During public appearances, Oliva often bemoans the amount of state health-care pending. He says that 48 percent of the state’s overall budget will be spent on health care, a broad collection of costs that include everything from state employee health-insurance to prison health to Medicaid.
Bryan Cherry is a lobbyist for Doctors Memorial Hospital, which has put in two requests for funding this year. Cherry said he is aware of Oliva’s concerns about health care spending but said he hopes he can win over skeptical legislators.
“From everything I’ve been told, the speaker views rural hospitals in a different category, if you will,” he said.
One of the requests from Doctors Memorial Hospital is $1.6 million to help construct a 6,000-square-foot medical office facility to serve pediatric cardiologist specialists’ needs in Holmes County.
“It is a critical access rural hospital,” he said. “There’s a critical need for it.”
Lobbyist Paul Hawkes, who is trying to get money for UF Health Jacksonville, is also cognizant of the speaker’s sentiment and acknowledged it could cast a shadow during the session. Hawkes job is to convince the Legislature to sign off on proposals that, if approved, could mean $43 million in increased Medicaid funding for the hospital without additional state funds.
Noting that the facility has thin operating margins and provides large amounts of Medicaid and charity care, Hawkes said he’s confident he can make a persuasive argument for the increased spending authority, which involves using local and federal money but shows up in the state budget.
“The speaker has never said he’s opposed to important health care sending or quality health care spending,” said Hawkes, a former lawmaker. “He said he was opposed to more wasteful health care spending.”
Sprinkled along with requests for money dedicated to hospitals and opioid treatment is a request to help pay for the Ms. Senior Florida pageant. The pageant is for women 60 and older of “good moral character,” according to a website promoting the event. The contestants must compete in a talent competition and agree to don evening wear.
“It’s an activity for the older people in this community,” Sen. Oscar Braynon, D-Miami Gardens, said of his $500,000 funding request .
“It’s not about the actual beauty pageant,” he said. “it’s about giving these elderly people something to do.”
Source: News4Jax
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.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
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.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
“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.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
“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.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
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.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
The general contractor was Robins & Morton.
Source: SFBJ