BayCare Plans North Manatee County Hospital

MANATEE COUNTY — BayCare Health System recently unveiled plans for its first Manatee County hospital. According to a company press release, BayCare Hospital Manatee is scheduled to break ground in October.

The $548 million project on the Robinson Gateway Property on Moccasin Wallow Road would create the only not-for-profit hospital in Manatee County and the first hospital on the north side of the Manatee River.

"The hospital’s construction plans underscore BayCare’s commitment to growing with the community and caring for families in the region, from delivering babies and offering neonatal services to providing emergency care and specialty surgery," according to the press release.

The 45,000-square-foot facility will have 154 beds in private patient rooms and is expected to open in 2027, just one mile north of the I-75 and I-275 intersection in Manatee County.