Ascension St. Vincent\u2019s is expanding emergency care in Jacksonville\u2019s Southside community by opening a new freestanding emergency room at the intersection of Kernan and Beach boulevards.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur responsibility at St. Vincent\u2019s is to ensure high-quality, compassionate care is accessible and rooted in the communities we serve,\u201d said Cory Darling, president and CEO of St. Vincent\u2019s Southside. \u201cOpening this new freestanding ER allows us to meet the needs of this community by reducing barriers to care and giving patients more options when every minute matters.\u201d<\/p>\n
More than 40 associates will staff the new 10,000-square-foot ER and offer a range of services, including a triage area, a critical care room, 10 treatment spaces, on-site lab services and advanced CT and X-ray technology. More than 16,000 patients are expected to receive care annually at the site.\u00a0<\/p>\n
This location will provide a much-needed access point for care in expanding neighborhoods. Over the next five years, St. Vincent\u2019s expects the population to increase by 5.9% in the Southside service area, a promising sign for the future. More importantly, this new facility brings mission-driven health care to more patients across Northeast Florida.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to state health data, the neighborhoods surrounding Beach and Kernan face some of Florida’s highest death rates from heart attacks and strokes.<\/p>\n
“As a health system, our responsibility to our community extends beyond the walls of our hospitals,\u201d said Scott Kashman, interim market lead for Ascension St. Vincent\u2019s. \u201cBy expanding access to emergency services in Northeast Florida, we\u2019re ensuring families have more options and the confidence that high-quality care is always within reach.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
The ER facility will be operated by Ascension St. Vincent\u2019s Southside. In the event a patient needs a higher level of care on the main campus, St. Vincent\u2019s can coordinate transportation and schedule follow-up appointments with providers.\u00a0<\/p>\n
St. Vincent\u2019s operates two other freestanding ERs in Jacksonville\u2019s Arlington and Westside communities.\u00a0<\/p>\n
For more information about St. Vincent\u2019s emergency care, go to healthcare.ascension.org\/find-care\/location\/emergency-rooms\/jacksonville\u2014florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ascension St. Vincent\u2019s is expanding emergency care in Jacksonville\u2019s Southside community by opening a new freestanding emergency room…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":779918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5136],"tags":[5229,3188,723,7310,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-779917","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-jacksonville","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-united-states-of-america","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","16":"tag-us","17":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116534017248796510","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=779917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/779917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=779917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=779917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=779917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}