Baptist Health announced plans Tuesday to start building its new $39 million Clay County medical campus on 32 acres at U.S. 17 and Village Square Parkway, near Orange Park, Middleburg and Green Cove Springs.
The campus is expected to open next spring and create up to 60 jobs, particularly for nurses, paramedics and other clinical professionals.
The Jacksonville-based health care system said the development will include pediatric and adult subspecialty and emergency care.
The medical campus is designed to feature an emergency center serving children and adults that includes a diagnostic imaging center and on-site lab services, totaling nearly 26,000 square feet in size.
Baptist Health said imaging tests that will be offered include X-ray, MRI, CT, digital mammography, ultrasound and fluoroscopy to serve emergency patients, as well as those referred from physician offices.
Emergency services will be provided by board-certified emergency medicine physicians, nurses and other clinicians.
Next to the emergency center will be a three-story, 80,000-square-foot medical office building.
First-floor plans call for a 30,000-square-foot Wolfson Children’s Specialty Center providing multispecialty pediatric care by Wolfson Children’s Hospital and its partners, Nemours Children’s Clinic and the University of Florida-Jacksonville.
Children will be able to receive subspecialty care in pediatric cardiology, orthopedics, neurology, children’s rehabilitation and other services.
The second and third floors will be used for physician offices for adults.
“Baptist Health purchased this property in 2006 and began to explore how we could develop it to best serve the people who live and work in this community,” said John Wilbanks, chief operating officer for Baptist Health.
“We are excited about strengthening our presence in Clay County, providing greater access to comprehensive care for every stage of life,” he said.
Baptist Health is a faith-based, mission-driven system comprising Baptist Medical Center Jacksonville and Baptist Heart Hospital; Baptist Medical Center Beaches; Baptist Medical Center Nassau; Baptist Medical Center South; and Wolfson Children’s Hospital.