Ascension St. Vincent’s submitted civil engineering plans to build its first free-standing emergency department at 9820 Hutchinson Park Drive in Arlington, the first of two under consideration by the health care system.
“Although our plans are preliminary, we have identified a need for emergency care in Arlington and on Jacksonville’s Westside. We regularly evaluate our region’s health needs and will continue to identify opportunities to invest and grow,” said Ascension St. Vincent’s spokesman Kyle Sieg.
Plans filed with the city show a 13,446-square-foot building on 1.61 acres along Hutchinson Park Drive, at Monument Road near Interstate 295.
There’s a place for ambulance drop-off on one side, and a patient drop-off on the other end of the building. The parking lot has 54 spaces.
EnVision Design & Engineering is the civil engineer on the project.
Ascension St. Vincent’s built an urgent care center in 2018 on a 1.58-acre site at 858 Monument Road, adjacent to the ER property. The construction cost exceeded $3.2 million.
The development is in Kendall Town Center, a Gate Lands Co. project. Gate sold the urgent care land to Ascension St. Vincent’s in 2017 for almost $1.38 million.
The Westside location has not been identified.
In 2017, Ascension St. Vincent’s debuted its health center concept, which includes urgent care, primary care, imaging, lab services and specialty care under one roof. It has constructed five centers, and has plans for 10 total.
“We are committed to providing compassionate, personalized care in convenient locations throughout our community,” Sieg said.
Other health care providers, such as Memorial Hospital and Baptist Health, have been opening free-standing ERs in Northeast Florida for about five years. Memorial and Baptist both operate three free-standing ERs each.