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Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Vol. 103, No. 197 • One Section
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Baptist North facility opening in fall
A rendering of the Baptist Medical Center North emergency department and imaging center.
The institute, at what is now UF Health Jacksonville, was the first in the Southeast
215,000 Treatments delivered since 2006
By David Chapman Staff Writer
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ment at northeast Dunn Avenue and Interstate 295. Its address is 11250 Baptist Health Drive. Baptist Health says the budget for that phase is $35 million to $37 million. The emergency department and imaging center is 34,000
square feet and the medical office building is 60,000 square feet. According to Baptist Health, the Baptist/Wolfson Children’s Emergency Center will be open 24 hours a day, offering 16 treatment rooms, a separate waiting room for children, child-specific medical care from pediatric specialists, a Life Flight helipad and an on-site ambulance. It said pediatric emergency medicine physicians affiliated with Wolfson Children’s Hospital Mathis continued on Page A-4
10 years of proton therapy
Some say off-site office preserves confidentiality
Despite being in the Yates Building for less than a year, some City Council members want to see the independent entity that finds waste, fraud and abuse shifted back to City Hall. The potential musical chairs act stems from some council members being less than enthused at finding out the Inspector General’s Office requested $100,000 from its current-year budget to build-out the space and purchase furniture. The money came from positions council approved for this year’s budget that were not filled for the entire year. Council in that same budget allowed just under $3,000 for basic infrastructure and the move from City Hall. So it came as a surprise to council Vice President John Crescimbeni when he heard the Mayor’s Budget Review Committee in late May had signed off on shifting around $100,000 for the buildout. The office and any other city departments can move such funding through the committee without council approval as long as it’s under $500,000. “They weren’t in the wrong,” said CrescimCrescimbeni beni of the Inspector General’s Office, “but I think it’s a little sneaky. … I think the council Finance Committee sent a pretty clear message last year.” The “message” to then-Inspector General Tom Cline was to not pursue a build-out just yet. Defying that intent, Crescimbeni said, was enough reason to file a resolution seeking to move the office back to City Hall. A contractor had been hired and was prepared to start “in days,” said Crescimbeni, until the mayor’s office decided to halt so council could decide on the project. Steve Rohan, interim inspector general, said the physical space the office occupies “is not in good shape.” It’s a largely open, empty space with a collection of spare furniture and sparse cubicle walls that one might think is vacant on first sight. Inspector continued on Page A-4
Baptist Health intends to open its Baptist Medical Center North medical campus starting in late September with a freestanding emergency department and imaging center. A medical office building is expected to open in February to house primary care and specialist physicians’ offices, which the health system says will provide North Jacksonville families “a one-stop destination for a wide array of care.” The project is under develop-
10,000
Number of square feet in $39M expansion to open in 2019
6,400
Patients treated since 2006
133
Published research articles to date
98
Percentage of patients who would recommend facility to someone
34
Clinical trials since inception
30
Number of countries for international patients
20-plus
Types of cancers treated
11
University of Florida radiation oncologists
3
University of Florida pediatric proton therapy radiation oncologists
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A young patient is prepped for treatment.
A decade of being on forefront of treatment
$39M expansion expected to be completed in 2019 By Max Marbut, Staff Writer There wasn’t any public observance on Sunday, but if everyone who’s been treated at UF Health Proton Therapy Institute since the day it opened had shown up for the 10th anniversary celebration, they would have needed enough cake and punch for 6,400 people. That’s how many patients have received some of the most advanced radiation cancer treatment available in the world since Aug. 14, 2006. Over the past 10 years, the facility has expanded its focus from treating only a few cases of prostate cancer to providing 215,000 treatments for more than 20 types of cancer. “We have a much broader case mix now,” said Stuart Klein, who has been the institute’s executive director for 11 years. “Now we’re at the forefront in treating lung and breast cancer,” he added.
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Emergency, imaging facilities to be followed by offices
It will open up some disease types, including head and neck cancer and some rare cancers. But unfortunately, we’re not going to run out of patients. Stuart Klein, Proton Therapy Institute executive director
When the UF Health proton facility opened it was one of only five in the U.S. Today, there are 23, Klein said. Proton therapy is an advanced form of radiation treatment that uses protons instead of traditional X-rays. It targets cancer cells and tumors more precisely, with less damage to surrounding tissue and fewer short- and long-term side effects. Proton
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