Following its March 10 soft opening, the free-standing HCA Healthcare emergency center in Nassau County held a ribbon-cutting March 31.
The 11,000-square-foot facility is at 462541 Florida 200 east of Interstate 95 in Yulee about a mile southwest of the Wildlight master-planned “Town District.”
The center is on a 55.28-acre site HCA Healthcare bought from the county in July 2019 for $15.8 million.
HCA broke ground on the site May 10, 2024.
The ER is open 24/7 and has 10 private rooms, one trauma bay and capabilities for CT scans, ultrasounds and X-Rays. There are 65 parking spaces. The estimated project cost is $32 million, HCA Florida Healthcare Chief Operating Officer Tammy Razmic said in April 2024.
Plans for two other parcels at the site call for a medical office building and a full-service hospital, according to Reed Hammond, chief executive officer of HCA Florida Memorial Hospital in Jacksonville. A helipad is planned, but staff said the ER’s parking lot can receive helicopters now for extreme emergencies.
Birmingham, Alabama-based Hoar Construction is the contractor. Brentwood, Tennessee-based TMPartners is the architect with the design-build team of Limbach Engineering of Orlando.
The HCA ER is less than a mile west of the Baptist Nassau Crossing Emergency Room on the south side of Florida 200 that opened in November.
HCAFloridaHealthcare.com says it previously did not offer emergency care within 20 miles of the center. According to staff, it is prepared to handle anything from heart attacks to childbirth.
“It’s an honor to be a part of such an important opening for HCA Yulee Healthcare here in Nassau County,” Hammond said at the ribbon cutting. “Our new emergency care department will play a crucial role in providing immediate critical care to those in need from here in Yulee to Callahan, Fernandina Beach, Amelia Island and our neighbors in Southeast Georgia.”
Other HCA freestanding emergency rooms under development and permitted to build include one in Jacksonville at 8100 Merrill Road south of the Hartsfield Road connection with Merrill and one in St. Augustine at 780 Woodlawn Road northeast of the Publix Super Market in the Shoppes at Mission Trace shopping center off Florida 16.