New health care developments are taking place throughout Northeast Florida. More than $1 billion has been invested into local health care throughout Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties. Many have opened in the last year and others are planned throughout 2026. Here is a look at some of those projects.
Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital – Bartram Campus at 6400 Brooks Bartram Drive is expanding. The $47 million project will add 48 beds and the option for further expansion, according to Brooks.
It is part of the 115-acre campus.
The expansion will accommodate patients recovering from brain injuries, spinal cord injuries, strokes, transplants and other disabling conditions.
The hospital will add an Innovation Studio, a space featuring smart home and assistive technologies designed to ease patients’ transitions home after injuries. Funding for it came from donations from a patient.
Brooks Rehabilitation Outpatient Clinic – Orange Park is expanding.
It is located at 500 Park Ave., a quarter-mile west of the bestbet Orange Park.
The out-patient clinic is undergoing a $5.4 million, 7,000-square-foot expansion to increase current services and add a 2,100-square-foot pediatric feeding and swallowing clinic.
Brooks Rehabilitation Hospital is investing about $16 million to double the size of Helen’s House at 6207 Beach Blvd. It is across the street from the Brooks hospital on Beach Boulevard.
It opened in 2017 as a facility for patients and their families to stay during prolonged treatment.
It originally had 38 furnished rooms to accommodate up to three guests. It is available for patients who travel to Jacksonville from outside Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau and St. Johns counties in Northeast Florida.
It is named after founder J. Brooks Brown’s wife who died in 2016.
AdventHealth Medical Group opened its first St. Johns County clinic in November.
The 3,000-square-foot facility is at 1000 Plantation Island Drive, Suites 2A, 2C and 2D, in St. Augustine. It is south of the Black Molly Grill and west of Fish Island Road.
It specializes in cardiology, gastroenterology, orthopedics, urogynecology, nephrology, neurosurgery, bariatric surgery, vascular and general surgery, the release said.
The medical group has other plans for expansion in St. Johns County.
AdventHealth plans a 16,500-square-foot, 12-room emergency department on land it acquired in World Commerce Center in St. Augustine.
It will be built south of Tocoi Creek High School off International Golf Parkway.
Through AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway Inc., the organization bought three parcels totaling 21.5 acres from World Commerce Center LLP in February for $13.4 million.
Kimley-Horn of Jacksonville is the engineer.
Future plans are for an 88-bed hospital. There would also be 80,000 square feet of office space to be leased to physicians not employed by AdventHealth or its affiliates.
The health care provider broke ground on a $12 million, 12-bed freestanding emergency department off Florida 207 near Wildwood Drive. Expected to open later this year, the facility will offer 24/7 emergency care.
Mayo Clinic Florida opened the only carbon ion therapy program in the Western Hemisphere in July.
The Duan Family Building is located at 4500 San Pablo Road on Mayo’s main campus off Butler Boulevard.
The 228,000-square-foot Duan Family Building cost $320 million to build and equip.
The carbon ion treatments can be completed in a week rather than over a month. It is much more precise than traditional cancer treatments, treating only cancerous tumors without damaging healthy cells surrounding the tumor, according to Mayo.
There are six treatment rooms. The first three provide photon therapy. The fourth and fifth rooms will house the proton therapy machines. The sixth is where the carbon ion therapy will take place. This device can also deliver proton therapy.
It is expected to begin operation in 2028 after receiving Food and Drug Administration approval. This will allow for photon diagnostics and conventional photon X-ray therapy.
Currently, physicians are conducting immunotherapy and chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy) along with sophisticated imaging technology.
Because patients travel from throughout the nation and around the world to receive treatment at Mayo Clinic Florida, having a full-service hotel on campus is an appropriate amenity.
The Hilton Jacksonville at Mayo Clinic opened in October
The hotel is at 4745 Transformation Way on the south side of the Mayo Clinic Florida campus. It can be accessed from an entrance off Butler Boulevard west of San Pablo Road South.
The project began in 2019 and faced the challenges of the coronavirus pandemic, fluctuating construction costs and high interest rates.
When the project was announced in September 2021, the projected cost was $70 million.
Construction of the eight-story, 252-room hotel began in 2023. It was built by North Carolina-based Concord Hospitality Enterprises and the California-based Whitman Peterson private equity real estate company, in collaboration with Mayo Clinic.
The building totals 184,000 square feet. It was designed by the DLR Group of Orlando.
The city issued a permit in August for Mayo Clinic in Florida to build-out two floors between the patient tower high-rise and the Mayo building and hospital in South Jacksonville at a project cost of $18.97 million.
The Robins & Morton Group of Orlando is the contractor for the build-out of radiology, pharmacy and other health care support functions in 40,064 square feet of space on the second and third floors.
Perkins&Will of Atlanta is the contractor. Prosser Inc. of Jacksonville is the civil engineer.
Called the Patient Tower Phase 3B interior build-out, the project follows the construction of the three-floor north addition to the patient tower and additional building modifications between the tower and the hospital.
The medical system announced in February 2022, that it was starting a $432 million expansion at the campus to include the additional five floors, creating 121 new inpatient beds, including 56 in the ICU.
Mayo Clinic opened the hospital in April 2008 with six floors and 212 beds. In 2012, Mayo added two floors and 90 beds.
Mayo said that since 2016, it has invested more than $1 billion in major construction projects, more than doubling its space by 2026 with new facilities for patient care, biomedical research, education and technology.
UF Health Jacksonville received permitting in December to build its fourth hybrid and urgent care center at a cost of $14.3 million at 13701 Atlantic Blvd.
Marand Builders Inc. of Jacksonville Beach is the contractor for the 24,865-square-foot, two-story project on 2.1 acres.
Shands Jacksonville Foundation Inc. paid $5 million for the property in May, boosting the project to almost $19.3 million.
The health care system broke ground in September on UF Health Emergency & Urgent Care – Intracoastal. The location is along the west side of the Intracoastal Waterway.
The other three locations are:
UF Health Jacksonville continues construction of the Leon L Haley, Jr., MD Emergency Department & Trauma Center at UF Health 655 W. Eighth St.. It is being built in five phases and is expected to cost $57 million.
The facility is being built with $80 million from the state and $10 million from the city.
It is a one-story, 42,000-square-foot addition and a 42,120-square-foot alteration.
In November, UF Health said the first phase will increase the number of emergency and trauma rooms from 78 to 125. It said it would expand the existing facility by 35,000 square feet, which is larger now on the plans, to include 53 new beds along with new adult and pediatric waiting areas. It is expected to take 18 months to complete.
In phases two through five, the existing 41,500-square-foot emergency room – shown as 42,120 square feet on the plans – will be renovated and will include new diagnostic equipment, a new radiology section and behavioral health space.
Construction continues on the 72,147-square-foot medical office building at the UF Health campus at Durbin Park in St. Johns County. It is a hospital and medical office complex at 120 Flagler Heath Way near Race Track Road.
When the offices are completed, it will house cardiology, general surgery, women’s health, orthopedics and several other specialty practices.
The offices should be open in the summer and the 99-bed inpatient hospital has plans to open in the early fall, according to a UF Health spokesperson.
The county issued a $10.8 million building permit in April for the building’s shell. Stellar, based in Jacksonville, is overseeing construction.
Plans for the 395,000-square-foot hospital campus include acute, intensive, and emergency care; operating rooms; and an imaging suite and hybrid labs.
Halo Precision Diagnostics plans to open in Seven Pines at 11885 Stillwood Pines Blvd.
The city issued a $4.1 million permit for Onicx LLC of Tampa to build-out the 24,907-square-foot first floor. The second floor will be leased by another company or companies.
The city issued a permit in May for Onicx LLC to build the $8.6 million, two-story, 50,000-square-foot building on part of a 7.19-acre site.
The site is east of Resolution Drive and south of Butler Boulevard. Through Stillwood Pines MOB LLC, Onicx paid $2.6 million for the property in January 2025.
Onicx Development of Tampa is the developer. The company builds medical, office, retail and apartment projects.
Jacksonville-based England-Thims & Miller Inc. of Jacksonville is the civil engineer. Pavalis Architekton of Tarpon Springs is the architect.