A neighborhood hospital that will feature 10 emergency department rooms, 10 inpatient rooms, four surgical operating rooms, and a medical imaging center is making brisk progress toward a projected Summer opening in northwest Ocala.
The University of Florida Health Ocala Neighborhood Hospital is currently under construction at 2100 NW 35th Avenue Road.
First announced in 2022, the three-story, 150,000-square-foot facility will feature a bevy of medical services, including seven emergency examination rooms, an outpatient center for lab draws, the UF Health Rehab Clinic, an anesthesia pre-operative center, and physician office space. The building will also include room for future expansion, according to the organization.
The facility’s surgery center will feature 12 pre- and post-operative beds in addition to its operating rooms, and its imaging center will feature two general X-ray rooms, two computerized tomography (CT) rooms, an ultrasound room, and one magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) suite.
According to UF Health, the second and third floors of the building will house the facility’s physical therapy and rehabilitation services, the anesthesia pre-operative center, and the physicians’ offices.
In 2022, the organization released a video rendering of the facility, which is scheduled to open later this Summer.
Ocala’s hospital infrastructure continues to rapidly evolve, with new structures emerging regularly.
In February, HCA Florida Foxwood Emergency opened its new, 11,000-square-foot freestanding emergency room at 4361 NW Blitchton Road in Ocala.
In 2019, HCA Florida opened its Maricamp Emergency Room along Maricamp Road in Ocala.