ST. JOHNS COUNTY, Fla. – Baptist Health is opening a new outpatient medical campus on Tuesday in the SilverLeaf community to expand access to primary and specialty care as western St. Johns County grows.
Baptist SilverLeaf Medical Campus at 8595 St. Johns Parkway will serve a region of roughly 1.02 million people within a 30-minute drive, with the area’s population projected to grow 9.3% by 2031. The facility is the first phase of a campus designed to expand as local needs increase.
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“We believe health care should grow alongside the communities it serves,” Matthew A. Zuino, MSIS, FACHE, president and CEO of Baptist Health, said. “More than a million people now call the area surrounding SilverLeaf home, and building a medical campus here demonstrates our commitment to ensuring residents have access to quality preventive and specialty care where they live and work.”
The new campus will have offices for primary care, cardiology, rehabilitation and laboratory services, plus a wellness center offering nutrition information and healthy-living resources. Orthopedic and neurology specialists are expected to begin seeing patients in the fall.
An emergency center for adults and children is scheduled to open in September. The new ER will include two emergency centers under one roof — one for adults and one for patients ages 0 to 18 — and will provide families access to the pediatric expertise of Wolfson Children’s Hospital, the region’s only full-service children’s hospital and the only American College of Surgeons-verified Level 1 pediatric trauma center in the area.
“All services are backed by the strength of the region’s largest and most preferred health system,” Eric Fletcher, MBA, FACHE, executive vice president and chief strategy officer at Baptist Health, said. “Patients receive personalized care locally, knowing that it is supported by the substantial resources of our health care system.”