The 13,000-Sq.-Foot, Freestanding Emergency Room Celebrates Its Grand Opening With A Large, Free Neighborhood Occasion
With Wesley Chapel already often called the biggest well being care “hub” in Pasco County — with two hospitals open, two or three extra (one pediatric) on the way in which, two main most cancers facilities, a psychological well being facility, an assisted dwelling facility with an on-site rehab middle and one other rehab middle beneath building — one of many few amenities Wesley Chapel didn’t have was a freestanding emergency room (ER).
Properly, you possibly can scratch that one off your record, too, because the AdventHealth Meadow Pointe ER (AHMP ER) celebrated its Grand Opening with a free neighborhood occasion on Apr. 27. The 13,000-sq.- ft. ER opened to the general public two days later.
I puzzled why an ER in Wesley Chapel is a service of AdventHealth Zephyrhills and never the Wesley Chapel hospital, however I used to be informed, “AdventHealth acknowledges the expansion occurring in East Pasco, and whereas [AHMP ER] is a division of AdventHealth Zephyrhills, sufferers can have entry to our massive community of care in Pasco County and past.”
Jannah, photographer Charmaine George and I have been proud to be on-hand for the VIP preview, attended by about 100 folks, of the brand new AdventHealth Meadow Pointe Emergency Room (AHMP ER) on Apr. 24, three days earlier than the neighborhood Grand Opening occasion and 5 days earlier than the AHMP ER really opened on Apr. 29.
With stunning meals offered by CBK Catering & Occasions, the VIP preview was hosted by AdventHealth Zephyrhills (AHZ) president and chief govt officer (CEO) Mike Murrill, who first thanked everybody concerned with the planning, constructing and opening of the brand new ER, together with his AHZ chief working officer William Villegas, in addition to the AdventHealth Workplace of Design & Development, HuntonBrady Architects, Kimley-Horn Civil Engineering, the challenge’s common contractor Robins & Morton, in addition to the AdventHealth West Florida division govt crew, “together with my boss, Jennifer Wandersleben (regional CEO for the West Florida Division).”
Murrill additionally famous that, “Pasco County is rising very quickly and that is only a testomony to our dedication at AdventHealth to develop alongside East Pasco County. This ER is a step in that path to supply handy, high-quality scientific care to emergency care to our communities. This freestanding ER is 13,000-sq.-ft., with 12 affected person beds, two triage rooms, plus imaging and lab providers, in addition to a pediatric-friendly room “designed to maintain our littlest of sufferers. All of those parts assist us meet the wants of the increasing neighborhood we name residence.”
Murrill additionally launched Dr. Javier Gonzalez, the Meadow Pointe ER medical director and chief of employees at AHZ.
“The brand new Meadow Pointe ER joins our eight different freestanding ERs within the Tampa Bay space and our fifth such location in Pasco County,” Dr. Gonzalez mentioned. “This magnificent medical facility is one other testimony to AdventHealth’s unwavering dedication to well being providers, protection and high quality in our communities. Our ER consists of extremely expert and skilled well being care professionals devoted to offering distinctive medical care. We even have an in depth and devoted EMS fleet of 25 ambulances and th AdventHealth Air Star One medical helicopter devoted to important affected person transport throughout the area.”
Dr. Gonzalez then launched Shawn Whited, the operations chief of Pasco County Hearth Rescue (PCFR), who mentioned, “For us within the fireplace service, that is greater than only a new constructing. It’s a logo of one thing deeper — a partnership, progress and function. Our job as firefighters and paramedics usually begins in essentially the most important moments. Our aim is at all times the identical — protect life, present care, and get them safely to the subsequent stage of remedy. That’s the place AdventHealth is available in. This hospital is greater than only a vacation spot as an extension of the care we give within the area. The connection we now have with AdventHealth is one constructed on belief, coordination, and a shared mission to serve our neighborhood with compassion and excellence. We prepare collectively, plan collectively and beginning as we speak, we’ll proceed to reply along with higher pace, higher instruments and renewed dedication to each life that is determined by us.”
Whited closed with, “On behalf of the women and men of Pascal County Hearth Rescue, I wish to say thanks to Introduction Well being, to the management and the employees of this fantastic hospital and everybody who made this facility actuality.
We sit up for working facet by facet with you, strengthening within the partnership and delivering the perfect emergency care potential to our neighborhood. Congratulations on this unbelievable milestone. And welcome to the neighborhood.”
The ultimate two audio system earlier than the tour of the AHMP ER started have been Mallory Davis, the director of emergency providers for AHZ and Andres Sequera, AHZ’s director of mission & ministry, who led these in attendance in a prayer for the brand new ER and those that are actually working there.
Davis mentioned, “Over the previous a number of months, our employees has undergone intensive coaching to organize for the opening of this new location, and we’re excited to formally start beginning our neighborhood subsequent week. AdventHealth has invested $26 million into this off-site ER. We’ll open on Tuesday (Apr. 290 with 30 full-time staff. We’re grateful the chance for to broaden our footprint in Paso County and produce the next stage of care. I’m so proud to work alongside nice colleagues, together with my CEO colleagues in Pasco County, Shane Bedward from Dade Metropolis and Ryan Quattlebaum at AdventHealth Wesley Chapel. We work nicely collectively to serve Pasco County as a crew and as a community of care.”
Three days after the VIP Preview occasion, AHMP ER hosted an incredible, free occasion to indicate off the brand new ER to the area people.
Regardless of temperatures that soared nicely above 90º, an estimated crowd of greater than 1,000 folks got here to take pleasure in free meals and drinks, offered by 4 hard-working meals vans, free pick-your-own bouquets of completely attractive flowers from Tampa Bay Posies (left), free recent fruits and veggies from the AdventHealth “Farm-acy” (which Murrill himself helped give out), face portray, music offered by Miles DJ Productions, and naturally, excursions of the brand new AHMP ER.
It was clear that although AdventHealth did its normal nice job of partaking the neighborhood, the organizers of the occasion critically underestimated the quantity of people that would present up.
Through the celebration’s check-in (picture proper), attendees have been every given a punch card that entitled them to at least one free entrée with facet dishes and a drink from both The Taco Boss (under left) or the Tampa Burger Firm, one free dessert merchandise from both Nikki’s Candy Store or Pineapple Categorical and a free bucket of lemonade, plus the flowers and the produce.
“We printed 450 playing cards,” mentioned Katie Duncan, the senior advertising supervisor for AHZ and AdventHealth Dade Metropolis (AHDC). “And we ran out of the playing cards by 2 p.m. (an hour after the three-hour occasion started).” Attendees might nonetheless get the gadgets promised with out the playing cards, however each The Taco Boss and particularly, Tampa Burger Co., had lengthy strains all through the afternoon and ran out of a few of their meals gadgets.
These strains in all probability additionally prevented of us (together with yours really) from getting off them to take part within the public ribbon-cutting, which ended up together with solely Murrill, Davis, AHZ COO William Villegas and Stephen Drake, director of enterprise improvement for AHZ & AHDC.
“The place is gorgeous,” one attendee informed me after taking the tour. “However I gotta go get some ice cream and lemonade.”
The AHMP ER is situated at 5170 Chapel Commerce Dr. For more information go to MeadowPointeER.com. However, in fact, in any emergency, name 9-1-1.
