Recent Expansions
Coinciding with acquisitions and new market growth, we strive to enhance our current markets through strategic expansion of our facilities and the additions of new medical service offerings. The following are recent expansions throughout our hospitals and medical clinics:
In February 2007, HMA opened its first de novo acute care hospital, the 100-bed Physician Regional Medical Center - Collier Boulevard, which is located in Naples, Florida. This state-of-the-art hospital will greatly improve access to services for the growing east Naples and southern Collier County region. Providing private rooms, 24-hour emergency care, surgical, ICU and diagnostic services, as well as a separate 14-bed women's center. Physicians Regional Collier Boulevard has teamed up with the existing 83-bed Physician Regional Pine Ridge, to form the Physician Regional Healthcare system serving all of Collier County.
- HMA replaced the 90-year-old Carlisle Regional Medical Center with a new 225,000 square-foot, 151-bed medical center. It is equipped with the latest in medical technology, including a 64-slice CT scanner, MRI, positron emission tomography (PET) scanner and nuclear medicine imaging.
- We rebuilt a medical office building at our Charlotte Regional Medical Center that was destroyed by Hurricane Charley in 2004.
- Our Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Haines City, Florida, opened a new $4 million, 6,000 square foot expanded Center for Cardiac and Imaging Services.
- Davis Regional Medical Center in Statesville, North Carolina, opened an Orthopedics Center that offers patients a comprehensive approach to joint surgery, including pre-op education and pre- and post-op physical therapy.
- Lehigh Regional Medical Center opened an off-site Rehabilitation Center to provide physical, occupational and speech therapies.
- Mesquite Community Hospital in Mesquite, Texas, opened a Total Joint Center. It offers new options for orthopedic care for patients that have arthritis or require a total joint replacement or are a candidate for minimally invasive surgery.
- Peace River Regional Medical Center re-opened a Neuro-Surgical Orthopedic Center. It essentially combined the Neuro-Surgical Unit with its Rehab services to provide a convenient, comprehensive multidisciplinary unit at one location. Peace River Regional Medical Center also opened a new state-of-the-art cardiac catheterization laboratory.
- Santa Rosa Medical Center in Milton, Florida, opened a 5,000 square-foot rehabilitation center in the medical office building on the hospital’s campus.
- Walton Regional Medical Center in Monroe, Georgia, purchased 68 acres in Monroe to build a replacement hospital and medical office building.
- University Medical Center in Lebanon, Tennessee, began a major expansion of its Emergency Department. The new center will encompass 12,000 square feet, roughly twice its earlier size. It will enable the hospital to treat up to 10,000 patients each year.