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Baptist Hospital Breaks Ground On New $615 Million Campus
October 31, 2020
Baptist Hospital broke ground Friday for their new $615 million hospital campus at Brent Lane and I-110 in Pensacola.
“This new health campus will serve us now and for generations to come. When Baptist Hospital opened, it was considered a beacon of modern health care,” said BHC president and CEO Mark Faulkner. “Think how far we’ve evolved since then. Our founders’ transformative planning led to generations of care for our community. This new, bold project will allow us to continue providing patient-centered care in a setting that offers the opportunity to evolve and adapt as the needs of our community change over the next 71 years.”
The new health campus represents the single largest investment in health care facilities, services and programs in Northwest Florida’s history. It will provide a central location for clinical care, programs and services that will be easier for patients to access. Equipped with innovative technologies for diagnosis and treatment along with a concentration of related services, the facility will provide a seamless continuum of care that is more convenient for the patient and better optimizes resources.
Construction is expected to be completed in 2023.
The construction of a new campus was announced in June 2019. Since that time, preliminary work has been ongoing including finalization of financing, selection of construction partners, initial site preparation and design planning.
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5 Responses to “Baptist Hospital Breaks Ground On New $615 Million Campus”
This is SO crazy that area is unbelievably congested already, especially since people in Pensacola do not drive well to begin with. Especially since the dingbat engineers designed having to get off at Brent exit to get back on and get off at Airport like the lunatics’ they are. NOW THIS?!?!?!
Whomever the planners are must be dumber than dirt with absolutely NO COMMON SENSE.
also I agree with @Charlotte R Bates… THEY NEVER have good decent parking. God forbid they have enough of that, but then not much in the county has decent parking. Also if they changed the zoning to make it city limits… well their parking situations are even worse!!!!!!!!!!
UGH where is Pensacola’s Common Sense??? did one of the Hurricanes blow it all away?
Personally I think it should have been on the ballot, I for sure would have voted NO for it being put there.
-Linda
Put a sock in it. This is going to be an amazing benefit. Just wait and see
Baptist Hospital, Good old boys type local government and Health Care Administration pulled a fast one over the general population in allowing this hospital to move to an already congested area that puts all three local hospitals in a HUB. How does that improve in meeting the medical needs of Escambia County that covers the north to south district from Century to downtown Pensacola? Isn’t it amazing that the city of Pensacola immediately announced that they were extending the city limits to incorporate the new Baptist Hospital campus?? Wow! !!! just shows what strings can be pulled if you know the right people and exercise your power of influence!!!!
Not enough parking from the start
I don’t like to be a ba-hum-bug, but I see in the picture the beautiful park and grounds, but have you ever notice when you build a hospital they never have enough parking? So, could you do with a little less park and have more parking spaces? And I’m all for building a better hospital, but where they are putting this one just makes that area more congested. Could there not be a better place that doesn’t have five million cars in that area already?