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SAVE THE DATE
Community Open House - July 10 I RSVP by calling 866-328-6417
Above: CEO David Ottati and Senator John Thrasher tour the Parkway Medical Plaza on April 27.
How is construction progressing on the Florida Hospital Flagler Medical Plaza?
o Construction is going great. Elkins Construtors and Hunton Brady Architects have done a great job. are right on schedule. There is a lot of excitement and anticipation building up in our community about this new facility.
Directors were able to participate on design of each department making efficient in all areas. For this reason, we had opportunities to make changes and implement it during the progress of construction with minor impact to schedule.
When do you expect it to open?
o Scheduled to open in July 2012. Our grand Opening will be July 10th. It will be open to the general public and will feature a ribbon cutting, music, food, speeches and tours of the facility.
Although the grand opening will take place in July, FHF will be strategically moving some services to the Parkway Medical Plaza as early as mid June to assure a smooth transition. One of the services that will be available by mid June is the Walk-in clinic which will be located on the first floor of the building and a couple of physician offices on the second floor.
What services will be offered at this plaza?
o This $15 million, 34,000 square-foot medical plaza will be complete with physician suites including multiple family practices, interventional cardiologist, ENT, Neuphrologist, Neurologist with capacity for more in the near future. outpatient hospital services, such as Walk-in, adult and pediatric rehabilitation, imaging, laboratory, and a women’s center.
How will it benefit Flagler County residents?
The Parkway Medical Plaza is design for convenient and high quality service with state of the art equipment such as “large” MRI system, Video options, allowing patients to watch digital movies while performing tests. Patients visiting the physician offices will have easy access to lab, imaging and the woman center in one location. By bringing the outpatient services to that side of the county, residents of Flagler County will have more accessible healthcare and many will not have to travel outside of our county to receive care.
• Why did Florida Hospital decide to embark on this project?
We were running out of room at FH Flagler and needed space for our new physicians. To put our physicians and outpatient expanded services in one location makes economical and logistical sense. The end goal is to provide easy access the very best high quality health care to our Flagler county community.
• How does it fit into the hospital's master plan?
Our master plan is to continue to expand our services to meet the needs of the community. This expansion is a large component of such meeting this goal. The additional recruitment of our physicians moving to the medical plaza includes specialties that are in great need in our community due to the number of current specialist available, such as Neuprologists, ENT and Family Practice. that will be located in the new building consist of a Family Practice physician, A cardiologist and a ENT. All are needed in our growing community.
• Any idea how many jobs this plaza will generate for the community?
This project will directly add about 20 jobs.
• What other projects are in the works for Florida Hospital? Any other big plans?
In 2012 FHF is ramping its wellness program by dedicating more time and resources on seminars with the goal to reach out, inform and guide the residents of Flagler County to implement a life style of “Living Whole and Health” .
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