HCA East Florida will pump $650 million into Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, St. Lucie County facilities
Initiative includes new buildings and the expansion and improvement of existing healthcare facilities in east Florida market over three years.
The Health Professions Building on Nova Southeastern University Campus. HCA’s largest single investment will be a new hospital on the NSU campus. Photo by Wikipedia
HCA East Florida, a division of the Hospital Corporation of America, will inject about $650 million in healthcare facilities in Miami Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, and St. Lucie Counties thanks to a new capital investment initiative.
It includes new buildings and the expansion and improvement of existing healthcare facilities within the east Florida market over the next three years. The company's footprint spans 14 hospitals and a number of other facilities.
At $219 million, HCA's largest single investment will be a new hospital on the campus of Nova Southeastern University in Davie, Florida. Construction should begin later this year. HCA East Florida already operates a free-standing emergency room facility on the NSU campus.
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JFK Medical Center in Atlantis/Palm Beach, a 472-bed facility, will receive $108 million to add a three-story bed tower, expand the emergency room, complete patient unit renovations and expand and upgrade its parking facilities. Kendall Regional Medical Center, a 417-bed facility, will receive $90 million to add a new parking garage and a new four-story tower, which will house additional operating rooms, ICU beds, and pediatric beds.
The 224-bed Westside Regional Medical Center in Plantation is slated to receive $56 million to expand its patient beds and provide private rooms for patients; Aventura Hospital and Medical Center, a 407-bed facility, will receive $61 million to build a new patient tower and parking garage, and expand its emergency room.
Northwest Medical Center in Margate, a 228-bed hospital, will receive $66 million to build two new floors that will increase patient beds and ICU capacity, plus add a six-level, 322-space parking garage. The 488-bed Mercy Hospital in Miami, meanwhile, will receive $26 million for enhancements to patient rooms, and additional remodeling and upgrading of the building.
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In addition to those enhancements, two new free-standing emergency room facilities will be developed, one in Doral, Florida and the other one in the Town and Country area of Kendall, Florida. Together they will cost about $20 million.
HCA East Florida is the largest health system from the Treasure Coast to Miami Dade County, and encompasses 14 affiliated hospitals, as well as multiple ambulatory surgery centers and imaging centers, physician practices, four free-standing emergency care facilities, a supply chain center and an integrated regional laboratory. The organization employs more than 16,500 people and has more than 6,000 physicians on staff with an economic impact of well over $2 billion.
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"Our patient volumes have grown over the past few years and created capacity constraints in many of our facilities," said HCA East Florida President and CEO Michael Joseph. "These investments will allow us to better serve our communities, respond to the growing demand for healthcare services and provide the highest level patient care experience."
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