USA Health Receives Approval On Two Big Projects

This week, USA Health gained state approval to build a freestanding ambulatory surgery center on the Mapp Family Campus in Fairhope (USA Health Expected To Break Ground On Fairhope Building This Year). The state’s Certificate of Need Review Board voted 5-0 in favor of the project, which will be located at the southeast corner of Highways 181 and State Route 104. In addition to the ambulatory surgery center, the Mapp Family Campus will be home to a physician office building. Services planned for the campus include primary care, pediatric specialties, pulmonary medicine, gastroenterology, orthopaedic surgery, urology and more. It will also house a full range of imaging services.

Also, the Alabama Certificate of Need Review Board approved plans to expand and renovate the Pediatric Emergency Center at USA Health Children’s & Women’s Hospital in Mobile (State Commits More Funds to USA Health Pediatric Center). The project calls for increasing the current emergency department’s area from 9,000 ft2 to nearly 19,000 ft2 and expanding from 14 treatment areas to more than 30, including 25 private treatment rooms. The project also will create two behavioral health rooms and a sensory room to enhance care for patients with specialized needs. USA Health anticipates construction beginning in early 2022 and finishing in mid-2023. The initial estimated cost of the renovation, construction and equipment for the project is $15 million, a third of which USA Health has already raised through donations.