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The hospital COO says 93% of the families in Pasco, Citrus and Hernando counties north of Tampa travel outside of that market for specialty pediatric care. The new 56-bed facility will help address that need.

The six-story, 100-bed facility is slated for an undeveloped 32-acre parcel on North Sumter Boulevard near Interstate 75. The board also plans to build another hospital in nearby Wellen Park.

Cape Coral, population of 224,000, has only one hospital. Founded in 1977 and absorbed into the Lee Health system in 1996, Cape Coral Hospital has been doing what it can to serve the city's needs.

The hospital completed 889 procedures at its Transplant Institute last year. That's more than Arizona’s Mayo Clinic, Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation (845).

As contract negotiations approach, nurses at Palmetto General Hospital in Hialeah joined thousands across the state and country to highlight broad support for solutions that prioritize patient care.

The 21-room, 15,000-square-foot freestanding ER facility, the hospital system's fourth, will help serve residents of north Sarasota County and south Manatee County.

The significantly larger emergency department is part of a broader effort by the health system to expand services in south Sarasota County.

It will be the first nonprofit research hospital in the city and the first new hospital downtown in over a century. It will have 150 beds and an emergency center.

TGH expands its Treasure Coast footprint through a five-year deal with the Palm Beach County Health Care District to manage Lakeside Medical Center. The district's board approved the arrangement Dec. 11.

HCA Florida’s two freestanding emergency rooms in Lakeland – one opens Dec. 23 – are part of a wave of new facilities in this Central Florida town.