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UF Health Continues Geographic Expansion With Acquisition Of Flagler Health+

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UF Health ushered in a big change to Northeast Florida health care when it completed its acquisition of Flagler Health+ in early September.

Flagler Health+ operated Flagler Hospital, a 335-bed facility in St. Augustine, as well as dozens of other smaller offices in or around Northeast Florida.

Since the acquisition, Flagler Hospital is now known as UF Health Flagler Hospital, and the overall system is called UF Health St. Johns.

UF Health St. Johns includes more than 1,900 employees, UF Health Flagler Hospital and nearly 30 care sites. It focuses on health care in Flagler, St. Johns, Putnam, Clay and Duval counties. Flagler Health+ has been in the community for 130 years.

In a video about the merger, David R. Nelson, senior vice president for health affairs at UF and UF Health president, says that UF Health offers additional financial and human resources, intellectual capital and innovation to the former Flagler health care system. Residents of the area and providers also will have expanded access to new clinical trials, and providers will have access to additional training programs, he adds.

Another addition for UF Health St. Johns will be a new technology strategy that will include integration of an electronic health record system across the health network and new clinical equipment, Nelson says.

When choosing a potential acquisition partner, leaders from Flagler Health+ aimed to find an organization that focused on quality enhancement, community-focused service lines such as behavioral health and women’s health, and high-quality health care services to underserved populations, among other factors.

Acquiring Flagler Health+ is part of UF Health’s expansion, which now includes 11 hospitals. Other recent acquisitions include UF Health The Villages (formerly The Villages Regional Hospital) and UF Health Leesburg Hospital (formerly Leesburg Regional Medical Center) in 2020.

 

Source:  Florida Trend

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Florida’s Hospital Construction Trend Rises To Meet Population Growth

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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

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UF Health To Open New Neighborhood Hospital In Ocala

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Construction is underway for University of Florida Health’s new neighborhood hospital in Ocala, which will be located at NW Blichton Road and NW 35th Avenue Road, just east of Interstate 75.

According to UF Health, the 150,000-square-foot hospital will include 10 emergency department rooms, 10 inpatient rooms, a medical imaging center, and four surgical operating rooms, among other features.

The three-story medical facility will provide an outpatient center for lab draws, an anesthesia pre-operative center, physician office space, and room to accommodate future expansion.

UF Health stated that the upcoming hospital’s emergency facilities will include seven emergency examination rooms, along with one exam room each for triage and trauma. In addition to the operating rooms, the surgery center will feature a dozen pre-operative and post-operative beds.

Inside the imaging center, there will be two general x-ray rooms, two computerized tomography (CT) rooms, an ultrasound room, and a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite.

“Many families in the Ocala area have entrusted UF Health with the care of their family and loved ones,” stated David R. Nelson, M.D., UF Health president. “Now, they will have access to quality emergency care, surgical services, and an inpatient hospital even closer to home.”

Construction of the neighborhood hospital is expected to be completed in the spring of 2024.

 

Source:  Ocala-News

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UF Health Begins Work On Second Medical Tower

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UF Health is beginning work on a new six-story tower with 124 rooms at its UF North campus, a response to increasing medical needs in Northeast Florida.

Above the main floor, two floors will be dedicated to patients who require acute physical therapy. Two additional patient floors will be used for acute care, and one floor will be used primarily for ancillary services.

UF Health North opened the first phase of the campus in 2015, a medical office building at 15255 Max Leggett Parkway, near Interstate 95 east of River City Marketplace.

The first phase included an emergency room, outpatient surgery suites, imaging and other diagnostic services, and four floors of physicians’ offices. Phase two opened in May 2017 — a 92-bed inpatient tower that consists of five floors, four for patients with all private rooms.

The complex includes a 20-bed unit dedicated to labor and delivery and other women’s services, a 24-bed floor dedicated to intensive care, two 24-bed floors dedicated to general medical inpatients and one floor for administrative services, a chapel, a cafeteria and more.

The health system held a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday. Construction will begin this month with a target opening date of early 2024.

“UF Health North has become an integral part of this community since it opened seven years ago, and this expansion is another example of our dedication to the health and well-being of the people who live and work in this area,” CEO Russ Armistead said in a news release.

 

 

Source:  WJCT

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UF Health Purchases 17 Acres In South Marion County

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Medical network University of Florida Health will expand its reach in Marion County with a recent land purchase in the Summerfield community at the southern edge of the county near The Villages.

A deed shows the transaction took place on Oct. 7 between Novia Group, LLC and Shands Teaching Hospital and Clinics, Inc.

Three separate parcels make up the 26.92 acres of land listed under address 14950 S. Highway 441 on realtor.com.

UF Health paid around $2.21 million for the property west of U.S. Highway 441 but has not disclosed plans for development.

 

Source:  Ocala StarBanner

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