Sarasota Memorial Health Care System has introduced plans to open a brand new outpatient endoscopy and digestive health facility subsequent to its Venice clinic campus. The Sarasota County Public Hospital Board has accepted a $12 million project, and the ability may be positioned in a constructing presently beneathneath improvement beside the Venice clinic on Curry Lane in Nokomis. Flagship Healthcare Properties is building a three-tale clinical workplace constructing, and Sarasota Memorial will rent as a minimum one ground to offer specialised outpatient endoscopy offerings.
Hospital officers say call for for gastrointestinal screenings and processes has been developing each year, and the brand new middle objectives to lessen wait instances and accelerate the prognosis procedure for patients. Sharon Roush, President of SMH-Venice, stated that for the reason that Venice clinic opened in overdue 2021, the variety of gastrointestinal processes has jumped from simply over 1,000 in monetary 2022 to almost 3,800 in monetary 2025.
Currently, each inpatient and outpatient endoscopies are performed withinside the clinic. Moving a few offerings to the brand new outpatient middle will permit the clinic to time table extra habitual processes like colonoscopies out of doors the primary facility, liberating up clinic area for extra acute cases. The outpatient place may even provide higher get right of entry to and parking for the ones coming in for scheduled processes…