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Orlando Health<\/a> announced plans to build a second facility in Lakeland because of the city’s rapid population growth.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The health system,\u00a0which is building a larger medical center\u00a0off Lakeland Highlands Road just south of the Polk Parkway in South Lakeland, says it will construct a freestanding emergency room at Lakeland Park Center, just north of I-4, starting in the New Year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 20,800-square-foot facility will have 24 exam rooms with an ambulance bay, imaging suite, and laboratory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Lakeland has experienced strong population growth over the last few decades,\u201d said Matt Taylor,\u00a0Orlando\u00a0Health’s senior vice president of asset strategy, in a press statement. \u201cAs a result, the demand for accessible and high-quality\u00a0health care continues to grow in this area.\u00a0Orlando\u00a0Health\u00a0is pleased to expand its presence and maintain its commitment to delivering exceptional care for the communities we serve.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The facility, once constructed, will be open 24 hours a day, seven days a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the third freestanding emergency room planned north of I-4 in a little over a year. The three proposed facilities are all located within approximately 2.7 miles of each other, a roughly eight-minute drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lakeland Regional Health<\/a> received approval from Lakeland commissioners to add a freestanding hybrid emergency department and urgent care center to its Kathleen Campus, off Kathleen Road and I-4, in September 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HCA Healthcare<\/a>\u00a0received approval to build an 11,570-square-foot freestanding emergency department off the northeast corner of Carpenters Way and U.S. Highway 98.\u00a0The healthcare provider plans to demolish the former bank building and construct a new facility including ambulance bays, imaging, and a laboratory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Orlando Health announced plans to build a second facility in Lakeland because of the city’s rapid population growth. The health system,\u00a0which is building a larger medical center\u00a0off Lakeland Highlands Road just… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"4","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[7097],"class_list":["post-40354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-another-freestanding-er-to-be-built-in-lakeland-this-time-off-on-n-98"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}