The adjacent building includes a 28-bed emergency room five operating rooms 16 preoperative rooms 16 post-operative rooms 12 recovery rooms two endoscopy suites two interventional diagnostic suites a women’s health services department, which includes a birthing center staffed by mid-wives a radiology department filled with state-of-the-art imaging equipment and some doctors offices. Slideshow: UF Health North prepares to open new inpatient wing Between the two buildings is a large courtyard, divided into a visitor section and an employee section. The hospital is connected to the adjacent building by hallways. There are also plans and space available, but no date, for a second 92-bed hospital tower. The building is designed in such a way that an extra eight rooms on each of the top four floors could be added to the front of the building, Marshall said. Marshall said the number of hospital rooms on the UF Health North campus could be expanded if, as expected, the need for more rooms is demonstrated. One of those rooms will be a negative pressure room designed for patients who have infections. Of the 12 maternity rooms, three will be equipped with bathtubs for women who want to give birth in a tub. While visitor access will be 24 hours a day on floor three, which has the intensive care rooms, and on floor two, which includes the 12 maternity rooms, visitors to those floors will be required to check in to the nurses’ stations before going to the rooms. Rooms on the third floor intensive care unit don’t have a couch or bench, but have an extra chair. Family members, who can visit 24 hours a day, can also order food to be delivered to the patient rooms.Įach room on the fourth and fifth floors will feature a reclining chair, a desk chair, a couch and a bench. The system, made by Sonifi Health, can be used to access the internet, control the blinds and the air temperature, access the patient’s chart, communicate with the nursing station and order food from the cafeteria.
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Floors four and five will each have 24 private rooms.Īll rooms will feature a 56-inch flat screen TV operated using an iPad. The third floor will have 24 intensive care rooms. The second floor, with 20 rooms, will include 12 labor rooms and eight other rooms for women. The top four floors of the new hospital will contain the 92 private rooms. UF Health North should draw mostly patients with the money and insurance to pay the bills, which would help offset losses at the downtown hospital. UF Health Jacksonville, located downtown, is the city’s safety net hospital, treating large numbers of uninsured or under-insured patients and often faces financial problems. The new hospital cost $85 million to build and equip.Īlthough UF Health officials have long maintained the new hospital will meet a growing need, they have been candid about another motive. The 92-bed hospital that is part of the UF Health North complex on Max Leggett Drive should begin accepting its first patients in late May, said Wayne Marshall, UF Health’s associate vice president for UF Health North.Īs construction begins to wind down, Marshall gave visitors a tour this week of the five-story, 168,000-square-foot building, which stands adjacent to a six-story, 210,000-square-foot building which opened in February 2015.
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