Ascension St. Vincent's is opening two community emergency rooms in the Jacksonville, Florida, area. One emergency room will be located across the street from a Costco warehouse store. The other will be adjacent to the Ascension St. Vincent's Health Center in Arlington, Florida. Both locations will include approximately 13,000 square feet. They are scheduled to open in June 2020.
The community emergency rooms will be open all day, every day, and will provide the same services as a hospital-based emergency department.
"Time and convenience can be critical in an emergency, so we want to increase access to high-quality emergency care in neighborhoods throughout our community," said Tom VanOsdol, Senior Vice President, Ascension, and Ministry Market Executive, Ascension Florida. "Our community emergency rooms will only add more options to our already robust network of primary care offices, urgent care offices, specialty care offices and health centers."
The health system selected the locations for the two community emergency centers based on a data-driven analysis of where the services were most needed in the community. As additional community needs are identified, the health system may build additional community emergency rooms.
