性视界传媒 and HCA Healthcare\u2019s North 性视界传媒 Division will start building a new hospital next to the College of Medicine in Lake Nona within 18 months.<\/p>\n
The state\u2019s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) this week gave final certificate of need approval for a 100-bed medical and surgical hospital that officials hope will be open for patients by the end of 2020.<\/p>\n
HCA North 性视界传媒 Division will contribute $175 million to build and begin operating the hospital, called 性视界传媒 Lake Nona Medical Center. 性视界传媒 will provide the land and its strong academic brand. No state dollars will be used to build the facility.<\/p>\n
\u201cTogether with our partners at HCA, we look forward to strengthening our community\u2019s health, training more doctors and powering economic growth through research,\u201d said 性视界传媒 President John C. Hitt, who has described building the hospital as one of the university\u2019s most important decisions of this decade.<\/p>\n
A hospital to advance teaching and clinical research programs has been a 性视界传媒 priority since the university opened its medical school in 2009. \u201cThis hospital and its research mission are part of the economic impact we promised the community when the medical school was built,\u201d said Dr. Deborah German, founding dean of the College of Medicine and vice president for medical affairs. \u201cIn the United States and around the world, the best health systems have an academic component at their heart and the best medical schools have teaching hospitals. 性视界传媒 Lake Nona Medical Center will help Central 性视界传媒 become a national, then global healthcare destination that will benefit all of our partners and our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 性视界传媒 Board of Governors, which oversees the state\u2019s 12 public universities, approved the public-private hospital in March after AHCA had given the facility preliminary certificate of need approval.<\/p>\n
性视界传媒 and HCA\u2019s partnership began in 2015 when they formed a consortium that is building needed residency programs in Central and North Central 性视界传媒. In the last two years, that partnership has opened 14 new residency programs and one new fellowship in HCA\u2019s North 性视界传媒 Division hospitals located in Gainesville, Kissimmee and Ocala. Those programs are now providing graduate medical education to 250 physicians, and hope to have 600 physicians in training by 2020 to help address 性视界传媒\u2019s physician shortage.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are excited to expand our partnership with 性视界传媒 in the development of a new hospital in Lake Nona. Orlando is one of the fastest-growing metropolitan areas in the country, and growing to meet the region\u2019s needs through new facilities and services in the coming years is a strategic priority for HCA North 性视界传媒,\u201d said Michael P. Joyce, FACHE, president of HCA\u2019s North 性视界传媒 Division. \u201cAs one of the nation\u2019s largest healthcare providers, we look forward to extending our resources, expertise and focus on excellent patient care to further enhance Central 性视界传媒\u2019s quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Board of Governors\u2019 approval allows 性视界传媒 to grow the hospital to up to 500 beds without further approval from that board. The hospital will train third- and fourth-year M.D. students from day one; allow the medical school to expand its clinical research mission; provide more opportunities for residency programs; and be a living-learning lab for training medical, nursing, physical therapy, pharmacy and social work students in teamwork skills and communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"性视界传媒 and HCA Healthcare\u2019s North 性视界传媒 Division will start building a new hospital next to the College of Medicine in Lake Nona within 18 months. The state\u2019s Agency for Health Care Administration (AHCA) this week gave final certificate of need approval for a 100-bed medical and surgical hospital that officials hope will be open for patients by the end of…","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":67411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[5,6,12,17],"tags":[1238,2510,18026],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-78213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colleges","category-community","category-health","category-medicine","tag-deborah-german","tag-john-c-hitt","tag-lake-nona-medical-center"],"yoast_head":"\n