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New ER open on Jacksonville’s Westside in the Normandy area

Jacksonville FL — A new health care option is open on Jacksonville's westside. Orange Park Medical Center opened their second free-standing ER Friday morning a little before 9:30 just east of Lane Avenue and Normandy Boulevard.

Orange Park Medical Center says the new facility at 5773 Normandy Park Boulevard will be open 24-hours a day with radiology services, board-certified emergency physicians, nurses and staff that are able to treat adults and children.

Director for the new ER Alex Mathai says the new facility was needed in the Normandy area.

“We can take care of traumas, heart attacks, strokes. Anything pretty much we do at the hospital we can do at this facility.” Mathai says.

He says the facility is expected to see around 50 people a day now that they are open and they expect those numbers to rapidly go up. Mathai says they already have plans to expand the facility if they need to.

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