In addition to the Kathleen Road campus, construction is underway for a freestanding emergency department at South Florida Avenue and County Road 540-A, which is set to open in 2025.
It will be designed to care for children, with 20 total patient beds, including two semi-private rooms for critical care and three triage rooms.
A 55,000-square-foot doctor’s office is planned for property at South Florida Avenue, north of 540-A.
LRH owns 100 acres along Bartow Highway at the eastern end of 540-A, with plans for a hospital that will include acute care, an emergency department, ambulatory care centers, and medical office buildings.
There is no word on the timeline of when those two facilities will be built.
“I think our work will remain to make sure that we can have those access to services that are really going to be impactful,” Drummond told city commissioners. “I think that’s where our biggest opportunity lies as we look to the future, but we’re not able to do it alone. As you said, it’s got to be a community collaborative effort. And I’m very encouraged by the work that we’re doing together to try and move the needle on a number of these metrics.”