Orlando Health Opening Two Outpatient Resource Centers

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Orlando Health has opened a new resource center designed specifically to help individuals who may not have access to a primary care physician with their outpatient follow-up needs, Positively Osceola reported Aug. 8.

One of the two centers is already operational, and the other is set to open this fall.

The outpatient resource centers will offer health and wellness services ranging from post-discharge exams, medication management, to care coordination services and disease prevention education.

“Timely follow-up visits are an important bridge between hospital care and continued care post-discharge,” Ashley Dlugokienski, MD, medical director of the Orlando Health Support Team for Aftercare and Resources Outpatient Centers said in a statement. “The centers will help facilitate these crucial appointments, which enable patients to address lingering concerns and reduce the chance of readmission.”

Both outpatient resource center locations will be staffed by advanced practice nurse practitioners, RNs, care coordinators and pharmacists.

 

Source: Becker’s Hospital Review

Denver-Area UCHealth Facility Planning $119M Expansion

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It was built in 2019, and already the new UCHealth hospital in Douglas County is overwhelmed with patients.

“Our beds are full all the time, our operating rooms are fully booked,” said UCHealth’s Merle Taylor. “We do need more space and we are recognizing that people want to be here in this hospital. So now, the health system is planning a $119 million expansion.”

The UCHealth Highland Ranch hospital said it plans to construct two new buildings and build out more than 30,000 square feet of shell space on the top floor, amounting to a total addition of 314,000 square feet. It will add on 14 new emergency department beds to the 93 inpatient beds.

Construction recently broke ground on the first building, a 194,000-square-foot hospital tower. Construction will begin in September on the second building, a new medical office building with an outpatient surgery center and an imaging center. In all, the expansion should be finished by late 2025.

 

Source: connectcre

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Moffitt Cancer Center To Open $400 Million Inpatient Surgical Hospital

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Moffitt Cancer Center, one of 54 National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer centers, is opening the doors to its $400 million inpatient surgical hospital in Tampa, Moffitt McKinley, which it expects will accommodate a 63% increase in patient volume and a 33% rise in cancer surgeries over the next 10 years.

Construction began in 2020 with design plans entailing a hospital that could treat all types of cancer and provide surgery for solid tumors. The design was based on feedback from more than 170 stakeholders, including physicians, nurses, lab personnel, pharmacy staff, hospital leaders, administrators, patients, and families.

The 10-story facility is 498,000 square feet and is made up of 19 operating suites, 128 inpatient rooms, and 72 perioperative rooms. It also has an intraoperative MR suite, a diagnostic CT scanner, and two nuclear medicine cameras. The hospital will start with 80 available inpatient beds but can expand to 400 in the future.

“We are significantly increasing our capacity to help more patients and save so many lives here. We’re expanding all over so we can bring therapies closer to our patients and perform life-saving research that will give them even better hope for tomorrow,” said Moffitt president and CEO Dr. Patrick Hwu in a statement.

The new MR scanner provides doctors with real-time views of the patient on the operating table and does not require the patient to be moved to another room for scanning, according to WUSF Public Media.

“Everyone clears the room and an MR scanner comes in from [another] room on a track and comes over and looks to see if we got the whole tumor. If not, the surgeon will take more of a margin,” said Hwu.

Each patient room is 350 square feet and includes virtual whiteboards and flat-screen TVs, foldout sofas and recliners, and technology that identifies each team member that enters. The hospital also has a 26,000-square-foot central utility plant, a three-story parking garage, and a pedestrian bridge that connects it to the Richard M. Schulze Family Foundation Outpatient Center.

In addition to this project, Moffitt Cancer Center broke ground back in January on the construction of its 775-acre Pasco County campus, Speros Florida, which will include 140 buildings for clinics, research, housing, and more. It is expected to start seeing patients in 2025.

For Moffitt McKinley, it partnered with Barr & Barr Inc., Hammes Company, HDR, Horus Construction Services Inc., Walter P. Moore, and Ardurra Group Inc.

The hospital held a ribbon-cutting event on June 21. Its first surgical case is scheduled for July 31. 

 

Source: HealthCareBusiness News