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Mayo Clinic, Ascension Among Healthcare Giants Investing In Northeast Florida

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In 2019, Jacksonville-based Mayo Clinic Florida said it would build a $233 million, 190,000-square-foot oncology facility that will bring proton beam therapy and carbon ion therapy to Jacksonville.

Jacksonville-based Baptist Health also began several large projects this year, including building Florida‘s second largest children’s hospital and a seven-story facility that will “reorient” its downtown Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville Hospital.

Ascension St. Vincent in Jacksonville this year filed plans with city officials to build two emergency departments that are expected to open in 2020.

In addition, Baptist Health, Gainesville, Fla.-based UF Health and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare all filed plans to build facilities in Nassau County.

“If you’re going to have UF Health, Baptist and HCA, three mega-competitors that can literally stare into each other’s windows along the I-95 and A1A corridor, something really good is happening, because that is a lot of capital investment, a lot of healthcare,” former economic development board executive director Laura DiBella told the Business Journal. “And healthcare, in my experience, plants their money for decades.”

 

Source: Becker’s Hospital Review

Hospitals Could Multiply In Florida As State Cancels Certificate-Of-Need Requirement

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Florida lawmakers eliminated a regulatory process that limited how many hospitals and specialty services could be built in the state, according to the Orlando Sentinel.

Beginning July 1, general hospitals won’t need to secure a certificate of need to build a facility or start a new service, such as pediatric and adult open-heart surgeries, organ transplants, neonatal intensive care units and rehab programs.

In two years, the second part of the bill will go into effect, which cancels the certificate of need requirement for some specialty hospitals, such as children’s and women’s hospitals, rehab hospitals, psychiatric and substance misuse hospitals, and others.

Altamonte Springs, Fla.-based AdventHealth and Orlando (Fla.) Health told the Orlando Sentinel they will accelerate their construction projects that were on deck to go through the certificate-of-need application or were tied up in regulatory red tape. Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare did not say how the change would affect its building plans in Florida.

Roughly 35 states have certificate-of-need laws, according to National Conference of State Legislatures data cited by the Orlando Sentinel.

 

Source: Becker’s Hospital Review

Medical City Fort Worth’s New $65 Million Tower Expands ER, Intensive Care Unit

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Medical City Fort Worth will begin accepting patients in a new three-story, $65 million tower that expands its emergency services.

The facility includes a new emergency department and intensive care unit (PHOTO CREDIT: Medical City Fort Worth)

The 90,000-square-foot tower includes a 30-room emergency department, a 28-bed intensive care unit and a rooftop helipad for easier access to the ER.

Jyric Sims, CEO of Medical City Fort Worth, described the project as “a labor of love” that brings advanced technology to its emergency room. The expansion includes six pediatric care rooms, two trauma rooms and one room equipped for behavioral health patients.

The new tower, under construction since May 2017, will be connected by a skywalk over 9th Avenue to the hospital’s old building, which will remain open for other patient services such as surgeries and cancer treatments. The hospital is licensed for 320 beds.

Founded in 1976 as Medical Plaza Hospital, the hospital is part of Medical City Healthcare, one of the region’s largest health care providers. It operates 14 hospitals, seven off-campus emergency rooms and more than 50 ambulatory sites across Dallas-Fort Worth.

Medical City‘s parent company is Nashville-based HCA Healthcare, which ranked 63rd in this year’s Fortune 500 with annual revenue of $47.6 billion.

 

Source: Dallas News