New Specially Designed Facility Planned For BayCare’s St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital In Tampa

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BayCare, West Central Florida’s leading health care system, announced that it is planning to build a new, specially designed facility for St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Tampa by 2030 as part of a strategic effort to increase the region’s access to high-quality, state-of-the-art pediatric health care.

BayCare is the region’s largest provider of pediatric services and St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital (SJCH) is its largest-volume pediatric hospital. The investment in a new facility for the hospital is part of BayCare’s comprehensive plan to enhance local pediatric expertise and to create a destination hospital for high-acuity pediatric services, research and medical innovation for West Central Florida and beyond.

In addition to the capital plan, BayCare will grow its multi-specialty, non-hospital pediatric clinics to improve access to care for patients and their families closer to home. BayCare is planning to expand its pediatric graduate medical education programs, including teaching, research and training to fuel continued medical innovation and help ensure the region continues to attract the best and brightest to practice medicine here.

“From its founding, BayCare has been about serving its communities, who deserve the highest-quality health care,” said BayCare CEO and President Stephanie Conners. “BayCare wants West Central Florida’s children and families to continue to have access close to home to the best in medical care that combines the latest treatment innovations with our unmatched compassionate care. These investments will make that possible.”

From birth — nearly 13,000 baby deliveries in 2022 — to adulthood, BayCare offers everything for children from primary care and specialist physicians to state-of-the-art interventions. Particularly of note is The Daniel J. Plasencia, MD Children’s Chronic Complex Clinic at SJCH, which treats children and supports their families as they face the most challenging of chronic conditions. The clinic has been the role model for federal legislation to encourage such clinics at hospitals across the country. Similarly, a longstanding relationship with University of Pittsburgh Medical Center/Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh has made SJCH a destination for congenital heart care for children, where there has been great progress in children surviving to adulthood.

The Tampa hospital also is home to St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Steinbrenner Emergency/Trauma Center with the region’s largest team of board-certified pediatric emergency physicians.  The state-designated pediatric trauma center provides the highest level of care for children.

“In health care, to stand still is not an option when medical innovation is providing new opportunities every day to impact our patients’ lives,” said Sarah Naumowich, president of St. Joseph’s Children’s and Women’s hospitals. “We are investing in our region’s future, its children, to help them be as healthy as possible.”

The St. Joseph’s Children’s Hospital Foundation is planning a philanthropic campaign to support the new hospital facility. Currently the hospital is adjacent to St. Joseph’s Hospital and shares some common spaces. By building a new, dedicated structure, the pediatric hospital will be able to further evolve specialty care and research dedicated to children’s health and the support of their families.

“The best pediatric care is family-centered care that treats the child but also supports those who love and care for them,” Naumowich said. “A new facility will allow us to do that even better, marrying the best in medical innovation and options in an environment built to the needs of patients and families.”

A new SJCH facility would be the fourth new hospital project BayCare has undertaken in the past five years. BayCare has already announced plans to build its 17th hospital in fast-growing Manatee County, where the health system has already opened BayCare Medical Group offices. BayCare opened its 16th hospital, BayCare Hospital Wesley Chapel, in March 2023 and will open a replacement facility for South Florida Baptist Hospital in Plant City in early 2024.

“Our growing region deserves the very best in health care and BayCare is committed to continuing to be the leader in serving our communities’ youngest patients,” Conners said.

 

Black Salmon, Allen Morris Launch $1B Mixed-Use Development To Include 500,000 SF Of Medical-Related Office Space

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Black Salmon and The Allen Morris Co. are teaming up to develop Highland Park Miami, a $1 billion mixed-use development that will span 7 acres and increase the footprint of the Miami Medical District by approximately 10 percent.

The partners made the announcement on Tuesday, Sept. 26, describing the project as one of Miami’s most significant developments in decades that will drive the economy and serve the city’s important health-care sector. Based in Miami, Black Salmon is a national commercial real estate investment with a large development pipeline in South Florida. The Allen Morris Co. is one of the largest real estate firms in the Southeast and has offices in Atlanta as well as Miami, Coral Gables and Orlando in Florida.

The multi-block, master-planned development will feature 500,000 square feet of medical-related office space, a 150-key hotel, 1,000 residential units, retail and restaurants. To create a walkable, landscaped lifestyle community, Highland Park Miami will include open walkways and greenery.

Highland Park Miami will be located at 800 NW 14th St., between the Miami River and Florida State Road 836, the key east-west artery which leads directly to Miami International Airport and nearly every major destination in the city’s core. The development will also be visible from I-95 and across from the Jackson Memorial Hospital/University of Miami Health Complex.

A Multi-Phase Development

The developers still need city approval but expect to begin preliminary site clearing later this year for the multi-phase project that is expected to take years to build out. The first phase should see about 250,000 square feet of medical office space and up to 300 units of housing.

The developers will be able to substantially increase the density at Highland Park Miami because it is 400 feet from a Metrorail station and qualifies as a transit-oriented development. About six buildings will be constructed with heights up to 22 stories, according to The Real Deal, which also reported Black Salmon spent approximately $60 million acquiring land near the Metrorail for the expansive project.

Miami-based Arquitectonica, a globally recognized architecture firm, is the master planner and designer for the project. Arquitectonica is also the lead designer for a mixed-use development being built by a joint venture of Related Group and BH Group at 2999 NE 191st St. in Aventura, Fla., in metro Miami that will feature office and retail uses.

Oppenheim Architecture, a global firm with offices in Miami, New York and Switzerland, is designing the residential component at Highland Park Miami and Naturalficial, a Miami-based landscape architecture and design practice, is the landscape architect.

A Decade Of Planning

Led by Camilo Lopez, co-CEO & managing partner of Black Salmon, the team behind Highland Park Miami has been conceptualizing and planning the project for the past decade. Research included visiting major medical hubs in the U.S., including Houston and the Mayo Clinic Health District in Rochester, Minn., to learn more about the requirements for such a large undertaking that would expand what is already the second-largest health district in the U.S. Lopez said in prepared remarks the development should elevate Miami’s status as a premier health destination by adding state-of-the-art medical offices to support demand and new offerings for health-care professionals in a strategically designed and thoughtful setting.

Calling it a transformational project, W.A. Spencer Morris, president of The Allen Morris Co., said in a prepared statement the project will create a destination for the thousands of patients and employees at Jackson Memorial Hospital, the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, the Miami VA Healthcare System and the larger Medical District ecosystem.

 

Source: Commercial Property Executive

Orlando Health Announces Plans For $160 Million Children’s Pavilion

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Orlando Health is pleased to announce plans to build the region’s first and only advanced facility to provide coordinated specialized care for children and families.

Anticipated to open in 2026, the Orlando Health Children’s Pavilion, which will be located across from Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, will transform outpatient pediatric care in Central Florida.

As the largest single project undertaken in its history, the Orlando Health Foundation is leading the campaign to raise the project’s total $160 million cost through community support.

When a child experiences an injury, illness or is diagnosed with a chronic or complex medical condition, families often spend countless hours in transit – shuffling to and from multiple offices, multiple days a week. The new six-story facility will bring over 30 pediatric specialties together under one roof, enhancing care collaboration and improving the patient and family experience. Services will include:

    • Adolescent Gynecology
    • Adolescent Medicine
    • Audiology
    • Cardiology
    • Complex Care and Transition
    • Craniomaxillofacial Surgery
    • Ear, Nose & Throat
    • Endocrinology
    • Gastroenterology
    • Genetics
    • General Surgery
    • Healthy Lifestyles
    • Hematology
    • Imaging
    • Infectious Diseases & Immunology
    • Infusion Services
    • Nephrology
    • Neurodevelopment
    • Neurology
    • Neuropsychology
    • Neurosurgery
    • Orthopedics
    • Palliative Care
    • Pharmacy
    • Physiatry
    • Pulmonology
    • Rehabilitation
    • Rheumatology
    • Spina Bifida
    • Urology

“Without question, the Orlando Health Children’s Pavilion project is innovative and efficient. But it’s more than just that – it’s essential,” said Justin Williams, Assistant Vice President, Orlando Health and Interim President of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children. “The bottom line is it’s the right thing to do for the children and families we serve.”

Orlando Health Arnold Palmer has provided skilled, compassionate care to the children of Central Florida for more than 30 years. More than a building, this additional location to provide care expands the hospital’s state-of-the-art services, increases patient access, and includes space for program growth and development.

“When we needed critical support to build the first specialty hospital in our region, this community came alongside us. Now, more than 30 years later, we are calling on our Central Florida family to help make the vision of the Children’s Pavilion a reality,” said John W. Bozard, president of the Orlando Health Foundation.

On September 13, many of the original donors who helped build Orlando Health Arnold Palmer, along with other major gift supporters throughout our history, gathered to learn more about the project. This first look at the plans for the pavilion reignited their passion for supporting children’s healthcare in Central Florida. In addition to a generous donation from Dr. Phillips Charities, the project has received other multi-million-dollar gifts from individual donors. More information about the Orlando Health Children’s Pavilion will be shared as the project and fundraising efforts progress.

 

Source: Positively Osceola