Baptist Medical Middle and Wolfson Kids’s Hospital ceremonially broke floor Sept. 17 on their emergency division enlargement on the Downtown Southbank.
Michael Mayo, president and CEO of Baptist Well being, expects the 2 emergency rooms – separate amenities for youngsters and grownup care – to be accomplished in 18 to 24 months.
The emergency division addition and renovation is on a 17-acre parcel on the Baptist campus at 800 Prudential Drive. Town authorised a allow in August for the enlargement at challenge value of $187.38 million.
“This tower actually does take the final of the obtainable footprint of the campus and now we’re going vertical,” he mentioned.“But it surely’s the most effective use as a result of it’s going to create that further emergency care and degree of care that we’ve wanted to have for such an extended, very long time.”
The groundbreaking ceremony for the McGehee Household Tower included members of the family in addition to administration personnel from Baptist Well being and Wolfson Kids’s Hospital.
The ability might be referred to as McGehee Household Tower. Sutton and Debbie McGehee donated an undisclosed sum that’s a part of the $39 million raised for the ability by philanthropy.
Sutton McGehee is chairman and CEO at Mac Papers.
The couple being lifelong residents of Jacksonville, Sutton McGehee mentioned it was a contributing issue to changing into concerned within the challenge.
“It’s for the town of Jacksonville that all of us love and are proud to dwell right here,” he mentioned. “We’ve been blown away by the unimaginable medical amenities on this metropolis. For a metropolis the dimensions of Jacksonville, I can’t consider all that we’ve to supply. Medically talking, if it’s important to get sick, it’s a great place to be.”
The McGehee household has a longtime affiliation with the hospitals. Sutton’s father, Frank McGehee , was Wolfson’s board chairman for 2 years and served a complete of 21 years on the board. Ellen McGehee Cavert, his aunt, began the hospital’s Girls’s Board, and Tom McGehee, his uncle, began Desires Come True, which works with Wolfson.
The four-story, 123,908-square-foot emergency and affected person care facility might be constructed in phases.
A ceremonial sand pit with painted hospital logos was used to stage the groundbreaking ceremony for the McGehee Household Tower at Baptist Hospital Jacksonville at 800 Prudential Drive on the Downtown Southbank.
When full it can have:
• Two distinctive emergency rooms, ready areas and affected person care rooms comprising a complete of 100 emergency rooms, 63 for adults and 37 for youngsters, together with three pediatric trauma rooms on the primary flooring.
• Imaging, laboratory and ancillary sources to assist environment friendly emergency and trauma companies.
• A brand new endoscopy suite, plus expanded areas for pre- and post-operative coronary heart care on the second flooring.
• Plans to broaden by 68 inpatient rooms on the third and fourth flooring.
Throughout building, the Baptist and Wolfson ERs will stay open 24/7. New signage will direct sufferers to entry ER companies.
Baptist and Wolfson introduced plans Jan. 27 to construct the emergency tower addition.
Southern Baptist Hospital of Florida Inc. is the proprietor and developer. The contractor is Legacy Engineering Inc. Hoefer Welker is the architect and England-Thims & Miller Inc. the civil engineer.
The Downtown Growth Evaluation Board authorised the design in February.