JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Birmingham, Ala.-based Johnson Development recently started construction on a 60,000 square foot MOB that will be part of the future campus of St. Vincent’s Medical Center Clay County hospital in Jacksonville.
According to Johnson Development officials, the MOB should be completed by October and will include space for cardiology, wound care, orthopedics, rehabilitation, neurology and a sleep center. The development company will own the facility in a partnership with a group of area physicians.
The MOB’s opening will closely coincide with the opening of the first phase of the hospital, which will have three floors, and 64 beds. Future phases, if needed could add up to 186 beds, bringing the total to 250 beds.
The new hospital, part of Jacksonvillebased St. Vincent HealthCare, will serve one of the fastest growing areas in Florida.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county’s population currently stands at about 194,000 people after growing more than 35 percent from 2000-10. That was double the overall growth rate of Florida. “Clay County, especially Oakleaf, is desperately under-bedded and with insufficient hospital representation in comparison to the rest of the state, even though it has 21 percent growth in Medicare users,” Barry Darnell, St. Vincent’s system director of major construction, said in a statement.
For Johnson Development, the MOB is one of several new projects it has in the works. It recently broke ground on a $16 million outpatient facility in Waco, Texas, and another project in Marion, N.C. It was also recently chosen to redevelop a building in Fort Wayne, Ind., into a 34,000 square foot clinic for the U.S. Dept. of Veteran’s Affairs (VA).
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