The 24,000-square-foot addition includes six operating rooms, with room to expand to eight, and a prep and recovery area.
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The project calls for a one-story, 42,000-square-foot addition and a 42,120-square-foot renovation, expanding the hospital’s capacity to serve as Northeast Florida’s only Level I trauma center.
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
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
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