Pensacola, Fla.-based Baptist Health Care unveiled plans for a $550 million campus to replace its current facilities, which opened in 1951, local NPR affiliate WUWF reports.
What you should know:
1. The campus will have 650,000 square feet of patient care space.
2. Baptist doesn't plan to add any services through the expansion, instead focusing efforts on modernizing the resources around its current services.
3. Baptist will keep its current facilities, but will primarily use them for administrative and support services once the new campus opens.
4. Developers will start construction next year.
Baptist Health CEO and President Mark Faulkner commented on the hospital's need for modernization: "[Back then] a mom, when she delivered a baby, would stay [in the hospital] a week. If we had a gallbladder removed we stayed a week. We hadn't even heard of total hip replacement or knee replacement … This facility was not designed for today's healthcare."