The city is reviewing civil engineering plans for the Kindred rehabilitation hospital in West Jacksonville.
Crunk Engineering LLC of Brentwood, Tennessee, is the civil engineer.
Kindred Rehabilitation Services, which is owned and operated by Brentwood-based LifePoint Health, is preparing to build a 50-bed inpatient rehabilitation hospital.
The city is reviewing a permit application for construction of the two-story, 60,582-square-foot hospital on 5.55 acres at 1550 Normandy Village Parkway at an estimated project cost of $31 million. It is at southwest Normandy Boulevard and Interstate 295.
Kindred announced the plans Feb. 22.
It expects to open the hospital in 2023. It will be Kindred Rehabilitation Services’ fourth inpatient rehabilitation hospital in Florida.
Kindred said in the February news release that the new hospital will have all private rooms and focus on acute rehabilitation for patients who suffer from stroke, traumatic brain injury, spinal cord injury, complex neurological disorders, orthopedic conditions, multiple trauma, amputation and other injuries or disorders.
It will also feature multidisciplinary therapy gyms with therapeutic technologies that include augmented-reality balance training, therapy bionics and a full-body exoskeleton.
The release said Kindred also will include a therapeutic courtyard with exterior amenities to support care for patients and help them return to daily living activities.
It said the specialty hospital will be the first free-standing inpatient rehabilitation facility west of the St. Johns River.
Kindred Rehabilitation Services said it has nearly 30 stand-alone inpatient rehabilitation facilities in 17 states.
It said is a “partner of choice” for many major hospital systems in the creation of joint-venture operations.
Kindred Rehabilitation Services is a business unit of LifePoint Health, which comprises more than 65 community hospital campuses, more than 30 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals and more than 170 additional sites of care, including acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities.
It has 50,000 employees in 29 states.