Palm Seaside County’s largest hospital community is marching up the Treasure Coast with plans to construct a hospital in St. Lucie County.
The transfer by Tenet Healthcare, the Texas-based for-profit well being care large, comes as extra residents pour into the area and rival medical suppliers vie for brand spanking new and sometimes rich sufferers.
Tenet plans to construct its first Treasure Coast facility on 25 acres at Becker Street and Florida’s Turnpike, stated Maggie Gill, chief government of the Palm Seaside Well being Community, which oversees 5 Palm Seaside County hospitals.
The 54-bed hospital, the Florida Coast Medical and Surgical Middle, will supply surgical providers together with orthopedics, backbone, robotics, common surgical procedure and superior cardiac care, in addition to diagnostic providers.
The location has room for 2 medical workplace towers, one in all which will likely be constructed instantly.
Tenet already has out-patient surgical procedure facilities within the Treasure Coast
This growth will permit the Palm Seaside Well being Community to increase its acute-care well being system to offer care to sufferers in Martin and St. Lucie counties via a sister group, the Florida Coast Well being Community.
Tenet already has present outpatient surgical procedure facilities within the Treasure Coast, Gill stated. However that is the corporate’s first in-patient facility north of Palm Seaside County, the place Tenet owns Good Samaritan and St. Mary’s medical facilities in West Palm Seaside; Palm Seaside Gardens Medical Middle; Delray Medical Middle in Delray Seaside; and West Boca Medical Middle in suburban Boca Raton.
Gill stated the growth not solely will serve new residents transferring to the realm, nevertheless it additionally will make it simpler for present sufferers who now need to drive south to Palm Seaside County for in-patient hospitalization at Tenet-owned hospitals.
Tenet just lately revealed it’s spending $150 million to improve cardiac, neurology, orthopedic and maternity providers throughout its hospitals.
The upgrades will likely be accomplished by the top of 2022. Tenet hospitals account for greater than 1,900 beds in Palm Seaside County.
As Tenet expands north, opponents broaden in Palm Seaside County
Tenet’s development comes as rival well being care corporations are opening clinics and hospitals.
UF Well being just lately introduced it’s increasing into Palm Seaside County via an affiliation with Jupiter Medical Middle, a non-profit hospital in Jupiter.
In a current assertion, each entities stated their affiliation would offer “the very best of educational and group drugs” to sufferers in Palm Seaside and Martin counties.
In an interview, Dr. Amit Rastogi, Jupiter Medical Middle president and chief government, stated Jupiter Medical and UF Well being are exploring whether or not to open affected person clinics in Martin County, too.
Final 12 months, the College of Miami Well being System opened a significant medical clinic on the waterfront in West Palm Seaside. UHealth additionally opened a concierge household drugs follow in Palm Seaside.
UHealth officers stated many new Palm Seaside County residents who relocated from the Northeast, Midwest and even California are used to top-notch educating hospitals with an instructional focus and a heavy emphasis on analysis. The clinic’s purpose is to deal with present sufferers, entice new ones and set up a base for an expanded medical presence within the county.
In the meantime, Common Well being Providers, which additionally owns Wellington Regional Medical Middle, desires to construct a 150-bed hospital and “shell” area for 150 extra beds in Palm Seaside Gardens.
As well as, Birmingham, Ala.-based Embody Well being desires to construct a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital deliberate, additionally in Palm Seaside Gardens. And farther south, west of Delray Seaside, a 24-bed specialty hospital for orthopedic drugs is beneath development and set to open in 2024.
Building on Tenet’s Florida Coast Community hospital in Port St. Lucie may begin by the autumn, with completion slated for late 2024, Gill stated.
St. Lucie County has three different hospitals: Cleveland Clinic Custom Hospital, HCA Florida St. Lucie Hospital and Port St. Lucie Hospital.
Alexandra Clough is a enterprise author on the Palm Seaside Put up, a part of the USA TODAY Florida Community. You’ll be able to attain her at [email protected]. Twitter: @acloughpbp. Assist assist our journalism. Subscribe right this moment.
