Jackson Health To Build Emergency Medical Hub In Coral Gables

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Work will begin in six months on a new emergency medical facility in Coral Gables, Florida, that will serve Jackson Health System patients inside the city and within five miles of it.

Miami-Dade commissioners voted unanimously for the project at their final full meeting of 2020, advancing the latest expansion for the nonprofit public healthcare system that since 1918 has grown from community hospital with 13 beds to a network of thousands.

The single-story building, referred to in Miami-Dade documents as the Jackson Health Emergency Department at Galiano, will be built on two county-owned parcels on the corner of Oviedo Avenue and Southwest Eighth Street, also known as Galiano Street.

“The 10,170-square-foot facility will have dual functions,” a Dec. 15 memo from Miami-Dade Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said.

The larger emergency department will have eight exam rooms and support space, two resuscitation rooms and computerized tomography and radiology equipment. The building will also serve as primary care space with six exam rooms.

There will be 36 parking spaces outside, including two that are compliant with Americans With Disabilities Act requirements. Some spaces will be convertible for electric vehicle charging in the future.

Materials attached to a prior memo by former county Mayor Carlos Giménez shows architectural and design firm Gresham Smith and engineering design firm Kimley-Horn as having worked on the project.

The project is now in the design and development phase, but Jackson has already approved the schematic design and layout of the facility. Miami-Dade expects construction documents to be final soon, with construction to begin in June and end in July 2022.

The roughly one-acre property, which Ms. Levine Cava’s memo said “was gifted” to Jackson by Commissioner Rebeca Sosa, the authorizing item’s sponsor. It is in an area zoned for limited commercial and single-family residential use.

“This…will be a miracle place in an area that we don’t have anything,” Ms. Sosa said.

“Most of the project’s funding will come from the Jackson Miracle Bond program, which includes work at all existing Jackson campuses and the creation of new facilities across Miami-Dade,” the memo said.

An additional $1 million will come from the county’s Building Better Communities general obligation bond program. Commissioners in October OK’d allocating to the project funds from the more than 16-year-old program, which includes an entry for “primary health care facilities” development.

A map depicting the five-mile radius of the property shows that the facility will serve communities in Coral Gables, Miami, Westchester, West Miami, Virginia Gardens, Miami Springs and Medley.

In the next five years, the population of those areas is expected to grow by 45,000 people, a 7.3% increase.

“The fastest-growing segment, will be residents aged 65 and older who will “demand increased medical services,” the memo said. “And the majority of patients treated [at and released from an emergency medical facility originate from ZIP Codes within a five-mile radius. Depending on the size of the ZIP Codes and the population density, a two- to five-mile area can represent between 50% and 70% of the patients treated.”

 

Source: Miami Today

Mohr Capital Enters Florida Market With MOB Acquisition In Orlando

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Mohr Capital has established a Florida footprint with the purchase of a 78,449-square-foot medical office building in Orlando.

Accredo Health Group Inc., an Express Scripts company and subsidiary of Cigna Corp., fully occupies the property under a long-term lease. The seller was Wells Real Estate, according to CommercialEdge. The asset previously traded in 2005 for $12.5 million.

6272 Lee Vista Blvd. (PHOTO CREDIT: Mohr Capital)

The two-story building occupies more than 8 acres at 6272 Lee Vista Blvd., within the master-planned Lee Vista Business Park. The property came online in 2004 as a build-to-suit for CuraScript Inc., a company that merged with Accredo in 2012. The facility includes both medical and corporate office spaces, a pharmacy with clean rooms and a distribution component.

The property is some 10 miles southeast of downtown Orlando and 1 mile north of Florida’s 528 Expressway. Orlando International Airport is roughly 3 miles south.

Mohr Capital Managing Director Rodrigo Godoi represented the buyer in the deal, while CBRE Executive Vice President Ron Rogg negotiated on behalf of Wells Real Estate. Godoi was also instrumental in Mohr’s purchase of a 200,000-square-foot Dallas office building last March.

 

Source: Commercial Property Executive

Amazon-Led Health Care Venture To Disband As Walgreens, Walmart Ramp Up

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Haven, a joint venture formed in 2018 by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase that was supposed to revolutionize the American health care system, is closing down, CNBC reports.

The JV partners formed Haven with the goal of finding ways of lowering costs and improving outcomes in the U.S. health care system, which persistently costs more but delivers worse outcomes than dozens of other nations.

A report comparing 11 high-income nations prepared by the Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. spends the most on health care as a percentage of its economy (16.2% in 2018). That is nearly twice as much as the average of the other high-income countries (8.8%), but America still has the lowest life expectancy and highest suicide rates among the 11 countries.

Tackling an entrenched problem of that magnitude apparently proved to be too much even for companies as large as the Haven partners. In 2019, in a hint that Haven might not be up to the task, Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett said that there was no guarantee that Haven would succeed in its goals.

One difficulty for the JV was that the three partners tended to pursue their own projects separately, according to CNBC, citing an anonymous source familiar with Haven.

Other corporate giants, retailers in particular, are also out to change the face of U.S. health care delivery. In 2020, Walgreens Boots Alliance, in partnership with VillageMD, announced plans to open 500 to 700 clinics at Walgreens sites in 30 U.S. markets over the next five years, with about 40 opening this year.

Walgreens tested five in-store clinics in the Houston market and said they were successful. The clinics will offer a variety of physician services on-site, as well as care via telehealth and at-home visits.

Another retail giant, Walmart, has expanded into retail health care, opening 15 clinics in 2020, with plans for further expansion, with seven more by the end of 2021. All together, Walmart has more than 4,700 U.S. stores, meaning that its health care locations still represent a tiny fraction of its total so far.

The opportunity for further retail health care has surged as the coronavirus pandemic spurred greater consumer use of retail health care clinics, according to a late 2020 survey by digital signage company UPshow. That is because people have been consolidating errands more than previously, and a visit to a pharmacy can also be one to a retail health care clinic at the same location.

The survey found that 32% of consumers said COVID-19 increased their usage of retail health clinics, with nearly half (49%) saying that they will be more likely to use these clinics even after the pandemic. Also, the majority of health care executives (74%) reported that the pandemic has increased the volume or revenue or both of their health care offerings.

UPshow also found that 77% of consumers have at least one prescription that requires a pharmacy visit for refills on a regular basis, and more than half (56%) would consider visiting on-site retail health care for other services. The company surveyed 500 consumers and 250 retail health care executives nationwide.

 

Source:  Bisnow