Memorial Hospital Jacksonville applied to the city for a permit to expand the surgery department at its University Boulevard campus at a construction cost of $15.5 million.
Robins & Morton of Birmingham, Alabama, is listed as the contractor.
Memorial, part of HCA Healthcare, intends to expand the existing surgery department with five operating rooms, with two for cardiovascular procedures, plans show.
The project also consists of renovation of two post-anesthesia care units and the addition of staff locker rooms and a staff lounge.
Plans show 9,317 square feet of new construction and 12,486 square feet of renovated area, plus more work, totaling almost 25,000 square feet.
In January, Memorial Hospital said it would expand its surgery services with a $25 million,10,000-square-foot addition to its main campus at 3625 University Blvd. S.
Memorial Chief Operating Officer Cory Darling said in January that construction preparation would begin in March and the project would be completed by summer 2021.
The expansion will be on a single floor.
“As the community’s grown, we are growing with it,” Darling said.
“I think this will really escalate our services that we’re offering to our patients.”
The expansion will be built on a parking lot, along an existing hospital wall south of the emergency room entrance.
Darling said since the hospital is seeing growth in surgeries that require a hospital stay, an expansion on the campus made the most sense.
Memorial has outpatient surgery centers on Kennerly Road near the hospital and on Park Street in Riverside.
With some surgical operations moving into the expansion, Memorial will have space to designate an existing operating room as a robotic surgical suite.