ORANGE PARK – HCA Florida Orange Park Hospital celebrated the opening of the third floor in its new Patient Tower. There are 24 private rooms and will focus on caring for Medical-Surgical Patients. The five-story tower is part of a $126 million expansion project that offers patients innovative care in a home-like setting.

The fourth and fifth floors have already opened and contain 24 private patient rooms, a unit for medical and surgical patients. The first floor has opened, including the hospital’s outpatient testing and imaging services and the patient registration area. The second floor will be designated for medical surgical patients and will open later this month, completing this new 96 Bed Tower expansion project.

More than 100 new jobs were created to care for the increased number of patients. “Like many in our area, we’re feeling the effects of the growth happening in Clay County,” says Lisa Valentine, Chief Executive Officer at Orange Park Hospital. “With this growth comes the need to expand our team, our facility, and our services to continue to rise to the needs of our community.”

Built for today’s patient care, the new rooms have the latest in digital medical charting. MyCare boards will sync treatments, lab results, and surgery details for the patient all in one place. An advanced nurse call system will connect the patient directly with a nurse via the nurse’s handheld iPhone, and the Centrak system identifies and logs each caregiver entering the room, monitors all patient activity, and tracks medical equipment.

The hospital experience will be more comfortable with home-like furnishings and Apple TVs integrated into the rooms with advanced WiFi and faster internet speeds for connectivity and entertainment.

“Using the Apple TV, the physician can review with the patient their lab results or the images from a recent diagnostic test, for example, keeping the patient informed of their health status which lets them play an active role and we hope, gets them back on their feet, faster,” said Mary Tabor, MSN, RN, NE-BC, Chief Nursing Officer.

“We are already the preferred healthcare provider for thousands of families in our community. We want to continue earning their trust by providing more resources to keep them close to home when seeking medical care, all with the added peace of mind that comes from today’s technology,” Valentine said.

Charles Perry Partners, Inc. served as the general contractor and TMPartners, PLLC was the project’s architect.