Shands will not be allowed to build a hospital near River City Marketplace. So they are going to build a medical office complex instead. I kind of wish they focused on building medical offices near their existing campus, helping to make it a true medical district anchoring an area of town that could use the extra economic development.
QuoteIn a statement, Shands spokesman Dan Leveton said Shands will move ahead “with our plan to build a new medical office complex on the same site, which will include ambulatory services and a medical office building for University of Florida faculty and community physicians. The complex will include primary and specialty care, diagnostic services, urgent care and outpatient surgery and construction will begin in the near future.â€
Those projects do not require state approval.
full article: http://jacksonville.com/news/health-and-fitness/2013-04-29/story/state-decides-not-permit-construction-shands-jacksonville
I'm sorry. I just don't see how it is in the best interests of patients and the public in general for the state to shield Memorial Hospital from competition from Shands. How does restricting the supply of healthcare not increase healthcare costs?
All of the hospitals have a pissing contest with one another. Shands caused OPMC (owned by the same company that owns Memorial) to lose their trauma certification so Memorial caused the permit for the hospital on the Northside to get denied.
When one hospital wants to build, other will try to fight it. Baptist wanted to build a hospital in Clay County before St. Vincent's, but both St. Vincent's and OPMC fought it and got their permit denied, while St. Vincent's later got theirs approved.
Quote from: thelakelander on April 29, 2013, 07:56:34 PM
Shands will not be allowed to build a hospital near River City Marketplace. So they are going to build a medical office complex instead. I kind of wish they focused on building medical offices near their existing campus, helping to make it a true medical district anchoring an area of town that could use the extra economic development.
Lake ..........it is already there. LIA Alexandar tower, The Faculty Clinic and the building next to it, the tower across the street once the Methodist executive tower are all medical offices. I've lost track of what they did with Medothist Hopsital when they bought it. Five or six city blocks of medical facilites at varying levels.
Then add the proton therapy buildig,and the VA clinic.
It is quite medically developed.
Any reason why it can't be more developed?
Quote from: thelakelander on April 30, 2013, 12:47:32 PM
Any reason why it can't be more developed?
The return on the investment is probably better out on the Northside where there is little in the way of medical facilities right now. Just because they add more medical office space on the 8th Street campus doesn't mean they are going to get more patients visiting their campus for services.
I doubt they just decided to build out on the Northside without doing studies on what the area would support and the return on the investment and compared it to building at their current location.
Quote from: thelakelander on April 30, 2013, 12:47:32 PM
Any reason why it can't be more developed?
Yes. It would eat Springfield, and whatever the name is of the area just north of the current campus. In the same way Memorial ate the neighborhood at Beach and University, Baptist ate much of San Marco, and St. Vincents ate much of Riverside. Do ALL the hospitals really need ALL that space?
Mostly what I see over there is parking lots. There's a ton of room for infill without eating Springfield, Durkeeville or what's left of Sugar Hill. The infill going on around Orlando's hospitals straddling Sunrail stations under construction are a great example of what the area around Shands could become.
I think the permit was denied because of the neighborhood it's in and the people they would serve, (the city sees this part of the city and it's people as "undesirable") of course they're not going to permit a hospital to help them. They probably think that no body there can afford to pay a medical bill.
This is just like the city's stance against an effective mass transit system. "Their kind of people" won't be using it, therefore, there's no need for it here.
^The denied hospital site is located in arguably, the hottest growing area in town outside of SJTC. It's literally right across the street from River City Marketplace.