Northeast Florida health care systems share some of the ways they are innovating to improve patient treatment and care.

The hospital will be connected to the Baptist and Wolfson Clay Emergency Room. Once opened, the new hospital will have 102 private rooms on spread throughout the three bottom floors. A fourth and fifth floor also is under construction that eventually will expand the number of beds to 174.

“To all the service members, thanks for coming out and getting dressed up,” Hill said. “I do want to point out that this community, more so than what you’ll find anywhere, supports everything that you do.”

Clay County has the distinction of having two top-five finalists for the 2022 state Teacher of the Year and School-Related Employee of the Year.