The campus will include opportunities for FSU researchers focused on aging and digital health, as well as residency programs and clinical rotations for FSU medical students.
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Local stakeholders are eager to see how the area’s newest medical project will impact the region.
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare discussed its plans for the new FSU Health campus at Wednesday morning’s economic development alliance meeting.
“I tell people every day, over the next five to ten years, you’re not going to recognize this area. It’s not just Bay County, it’s really throughout the Panhandle area. A lot of it has to do with companies like Tallahassee Health looking in our community,” Bay County EDA President/CEO Becca Hardin said.
On Wednesday, Bay Economic Development Alliance investors got a progress report on the new FSU health medical office building and future hospital.
Tallahassee Memorial Healthcare partnered with FSU and the St. Joe company in 2021, realizing the venture would be a wise investment.
“We saw the growth of this area, we saw the need. We go back to our mission, our values, and for where we wanted to grow and for what we wanted to do while maintaining that mission and those values, we wanted to have a landscape that made sense. Really, when you look at Bay County and really the surrounding areas it made a lot of sense,” TMH Chief Health Operations Officer Andrew Starr said.
The 80,000-square-foot medical office building opened in July. Patients are already using primary and urgent care services.
The new 180-bed hospital will be more than 300,000 square feet and will create hundreds of jobs.
“Between the medical office building and the hospital, we will clearly have 500 net new jobs. We’re still working through the design, but it could be as much as a thousand,” Starr said.
“If you’re looking at a thousand new jobs coming into the area, you have to look at the economic impact of those jobs. People will be buying homes, people will be buying cars, kids will be in school, there’s more money in the bank. It’s just a tremendous economic ripple effect when you see that volume of new jobs coming to your community,” Hardin said.
Officials should break ground on the hospital in January and open in 2027.
Source: My Panhandle
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).
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