Well&You expansion to bring three medical centers to Jacksonville area (Courtesy of the Jacksonville Business Journal) — A local health care practice is on its way to bringing outpatient surgical and wound care centers to Northeast Florida.
Cardiovascular or interventional radiology outpatient surgical centers don’t exist in the greater Jacksonville area, but Well&You, a multi-specialty health care practice, aims to remedy that through its growth strategy, CEO Priyanka Ghosh-Murthy told the Business Journal. Plans are underway for three centers from North Jacksonville to Fleming Island.
The health care provider at 15496 Max Leggett Parkway currently offers minimally invasive, non-surgical solutions for issues such as varicose veins, spider veins, blood clots and leg wounds. In its expansion, new cardiovascular outpatient surgical centers will provide procedures including treating arterial disease, renal artery stenting, pacemaker and defibrillator insertion, among others.
Well & You will construct two new ambulatory surgical centers and a new wound and vascular care center.
The first center is under construction after the company received permits in March for a $1.9 million build-out and a $603,701 addition at its Max Leggett Parkway location. The provider also recently inked a contract to open a second ASC on Fleming Island, in which closing is expected to happen later this quarter.
Om Ventures, a privately held real estate company, will develop the new centers and applied for a permit in July for the wound and vascular center build-out at 4565 Highway 17 in Fleming Island.
ASCs are the focal point of the health care company’s growth plan.
“An ASC will allow us to do more minimally invasive procedures and increase the breadth of our offerings,” Ghosh-Murthy said. “Importantly, our ASC will make health care a lot more accessible to a lot more people in our community.”
For patients needing non-emergency procedures, she believes outpatient centers are the right choice.
The ASC in North Jacksonville will have two operating rooms and six pre- and post-operating rooms. It will be staffed with board-certified, fellowship-trained invasive cardiologists, like Ghosh-Murthy’s husband, Dr. Ragu Murthy, and interventional radiologists who specialize in treating heart disease and complex venous and arterial conditions.
The center will also have new technology that visualizes blood vessels and organs in the body called a crossover angiography system.
Another facet of Well&You’s growth strategy is in wound and vascular care centers.
Its comprehensive wound and vascular care center with three hyperbaric chambers in Fleming Island is expected to be under construction starting in September and will open in March.
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