A $9.1 million addition to Memorial Hospital Jacksonville will offer expanded care to cardiac patients, with further expansion planned before the end of the year.
Doctors and administrators cut a ribbon Wednesday morning to open the new electrophysiology lab and renovated catheter lab in the Memorial HEART Center.
“Our new EP lab and upgraded cath lab enhances our ability to continue to provide state-of-the-art care for patients with all types of cardiac arrhythmias, as well as provide non-operative solutions for patients with structural heart disease,” Chief Medical Officer Albert Holt IV said.
Memorial Hospital s HEART Center is at the north end of the campus at 3625 University Blvd. S. and served more than 12,000 patients in 2020.
A man was airlifted to Memorial Hospital Jacksonville on Thursday night after a shooting in a Ponte Vedra Beach shopping center that appeared to be self-inflicted, said Peret Pass, St. Johns County Sheriff s Office spokeswoman.
After the shooting, which happened around 7:30 p.m., the man approached a restaurant in the 330 State Road A1A shopping center and asked for help, she said.
It wasn t clear as of Friday morning whether the shooting was an accident, Pass said.
He was taken via air ambulance to the hospital in stable condition.
This story is developing.
Joan Cauley
COOPERSTOWN – Cooperstown native Joan Ann Cauley, 78, who practiced her skills as a food-service manager at hospitals and, later, joined Cooperative Extension, passed away early Saturday morning, Jan. 30, 2021, at Memorial Hospital Jacksonville, in Jacksonville, Fla. She lived in Lake Wales, Fla,
Joan lived most of her life in New York State. She was born on Nov. 10, 1942, at Bassett Hospital, a daughter of Edward Louis Kirn, Sr. and Mollie Marie Oblak Kirn.
Raised on the family farm in Hartwick, she attended Snowden Hill School No. 1, a one-room schoolhouse that still stands and, coincidentally, is the same one her mother attended.
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Northeast Florida saw another big one-day spike in coronavirus cases on Thursday, with the Florida Department of Health reporting 1,172 new cases in the six-county area.
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