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Steward Health Care System Acquires Five Tenet Healthcare Florida Hospitals In Miami-Dade And Broward County

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The hospitals include North Shore Medical Center, Coral Gables Hospital, Hialeah Hospital and Palmetto General Hospital in Miami-Dade County and Florida Medical Center in Broward County.

The deal brings the total number of hospitals under Steward to 44 worldwide.

“I am humbled by the opportunity to expand our footprint in my beloved home state. We know there are health challenges here and we are eager to work with local leaders to address them together,” said Steward’s CEO Dr. Ralph de la Torre.

The deal more than doubles Steward’s presence in Florida, which includes Melbourne Regional Medical Center, Rockledge Regional Medical Center and Sebastian River Medical Center.

Overseeing the new hospitals is Dr. Sanjay Shetty, Steward’s president of North America. Shetty has held numerous leadership roles at the healthcare system and helped expand its presence across the U.S. He also helped oversee the establishment and implementation of clinical protocols at Steward for addressing challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The pandemic is one of the motivating factors behind Steward’s desire to expand its presence. It previously motivated the healthcare system in March 2020 to open the first dedicated care center in the U.S. for COVID-19 patients at Carney Hospital in Boston.

“Steward understands that combatting the resurgence of the COVID pandemic in South Florida is our most urgent and immediate priority,” said Shetty. “Already, we have begun to redeploy PPE, ventilators, and other vital supplies needed for the care of COVID patients from our other facilities throughout the country to hospitals in this market.”

Steward annually cares for 12.3 million patients at hospitals, urgent care centers, skilled nursing facilities, multispecialty physician practices and behavioral health service facilities across the U.S., Colombia and Malta. It employs more than 5,500 clinicians and 43,000 healthcare professionals.

Tenet’s ambulatory facilities operated by United Surgical Partners International in these areas are not included in the transaction and will remain with Tenet.

No financial details were disclosed. 

 

Source:  DotMed

 

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$65 Million Expansion Of Sebastian River Medical Center Due To Open In February

A $65 million expansion of Sebastian Medical Center, that adds 48 private patient rooms, is scheduled for completion by the end of December.

It is expected to serve its first patients in February.

Officials from Steward Health Care, which owns the hospital, joined with general contractors from Suffolk Construction Wednesday to ceremonially place the final beam in the three-story building under construction at the rear of the hospital, 13695 U.S. 1 near Roseland Road.

The 90,000-square-foot expansion was announced in January 2016 by former owner Community Health Systems Inc. and was expected to be completed in 2018. But the acquisition of Sebastian River Medical Center by Steward in May 2017 changed the construction timeline.

The expansion moves the hospital’s main entrance and registration toward the back of the building. All pre-surgical services, operating rooms and recovery facilities now will be on the first floor.

The second and third floors of the new wing each will have 24 beds, bringing the total number of licensed, inpatient patient beds to 202, an increase of 31%.

“It was definitely time to upgrade to a new facility,” said Kyle Sanders, president of Sebastian River Medical Center. “This is a $65 million investment into the community.”

A similar tower wing was opened in 2010, providing 42 private rooms and a 16-bed intensive-care unit. That expansion cost about $25 million.

Sanders said the addition and reconstruction of the hospital’s first floor will help meet the needs of the Sebastian community well into the future.

“With the last beam going up, it is a great time to celebrate this construction milestone,” said Sanders. “It also gives us the chance to recognize the great work they’ve done on this project.”

Sebastian River Medical Center competes for patients with both Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital to the south and Health First’s Palm Bay Hospital to the north. Its new facilities will be attractive to patients who prefer private rooms, Sanders said.

Surgeons and primary-care physicians participated in planning the expansion/renovation. The medical center is expanding its primary-care physician affiliations, particularly in Vero Beach, where 51 percent of primary-care doctors now are part of the Stewart Health Care network.

“We’re definitely here for the long haul,” said Sanders. “We feel this project will allow us to better serve the community as a whole.”

 

Source: TCPalm

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