St. Joseph's Hospital-South Completes Three-Year, $130 Million Expansion

Press release from the BayCare Health System:

February 22, 2021

Riverview, Fla. — St. Joseph’s Hospital-South has completed a $130 million expansion that began three years ago, expanding its emergency department and building a five-story patient tower to accommodate new services. With the expansion, St. Joseph’s Hospital-South now has 223 beds. When the hospital opened in 2015, it had 90 inpatient beds and 22 observation beds.

The expansion is highlighted by the February 22, 2021 opening of an 11-bed Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The NICU is for babies born prematurely or with special health needs. The Level II NICU provides specialized around-the-clock care 24 hours a day, seven days a week for newborns and their mothers. The NICU is staffed by highly-trained neonatologists, obstetric and pediatric hospitalists and board-certified maternal fetal medicine physicians and certified nurses.

Mothers will be able to stay in the baby’s room during their child’s NICU stay. St. Joseph’s Hospital-South can also transfer babies requiring higher care levels to the Level IV NICU at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital in Tampa.

Another part of the $120 million expansion was completed in October 2020 when a new pediatric inpatient unit opened with 12 private rooms. The pediatric unit includes a dedicated treatment room with state-of-the-art medical equipment and technology. The treatment room is for simple procedures like IVs and blood draws.

This press release was produced by the BayCare Health System. The views expressed here are the author’s own.