Baptist Well being will open its Baptist Emergency and Imaging Heart at Nassau Crossing in Yulee on Nov. 7.
The $38 million, 23,879-square-foot emergency room and imaging middle is east of Interstate 95, close to Wildlight at 462600 Florida 200. It’s about 13 miles west of Baptist Medical Heart Nassau.
Development started in March 2023.
The ability is a part of a community of emergency care supplied by Baptist Well being, together with the Wolfson Kids’s emergency community, the area’s solely full-service youngsters’s hospital and state-designated Stage I pediatric trauma middle, in keeping with wolfsonchildrens.com.
“We’re going to have 24/7 emergency care out there to this group and, fairly frankly, this group is definitely rising,” Parker Brigance, Baptist Emergency Service Line Director mentioned.
Parker Brigance, Baptist emergency service line director, estimated that one to 4 docs shall be on-site on the facility, primarily based on want, and that it’ll make use of about 65 folks. There are 16 affected person rooms for grownup and pediatric sufferers.
It’s able to transporting sufferers with extreme accidents to intensive care items by way of helicopter.
“We’re going to have 24/7 emergency care out there to this group, and, fairly frankly, this group is definitely rising,” Brigance mentioned Nov. 4 throughout a media tour of the middle.
In keeping with a Nov. 4 Baptist information launch, 63,500 folks dwell inside a 15-minute drive of the brand new middle, and that quantity is predicted to develop by 11.4% by 2029. The discharge mentioned the ability has been designed to permit for future enlargement because the group’s want for emergency care will increase over time.
The medical facility may have 16 rooms for grownup and pediatric sufferers.
The Nassau Crossing ER additionally options an adjoining imaging middle for adults and kids.
“We will care for outpatient CT scans, X-rays, and bone density and mammography screenings,” Brigance mentioned.
He mentioned a second 27,709-square-foot constructing on the medical campus is predicted to open by the top of the yr. It can characteristic main care and behavioral well being companies. A Borland Groover medical workplace and the Nassau Crossing Endoscopy Heart will supply superior colonoscopies and higher endoscopies there.
The imaging middle is outfitted with the newest expertise to supply X-rays, ultrasounds, CT scans, mammography and bone density screenings.
“Nobody plans on having an emergency,” mentioned Tammy Daniel, senior vice chairman and chief nursing officer of Baptist Well being, mentioned within the launch. “However having well timed entry to knowledgeable care can save lives, stop problems, and produce peace of thoughts to sufferers and households.”
Baptist Well being contains Baptist Medical Heart Jacksonville, Baptist Medical Heart Seashores, Baptist Medical Heart Clay, Baptist Medical Heart Nassau, Baptist Medical Heart South and Wolfson Kids’s Hospital.
A second constructing underneath development on the medical campus will supply main care and behavioral well being companies, superior colonoscopies and higher endoscopies. It’s anticipated to open by the top of 2024.
A room contained in the Baptist Emergency and Imaging Heart at Nassau Crossing in Yulee.