Women's medical practice moving into new, bigger Cape Coral facility

Premier Women’s Care of Southwest Florida is opening a 40,797-square-foot medical office building in Cape Coral next week — moving out of a space it occupied for about 30 years

The women’s health care practice’s new medical center will be at 1606 Santa Barbara Blvd. and replaces the existing one in the city.

The new center opens Tuesday, Feb. 3. The current one, on Viscaya Parkway, will close permanently Jan. 30. Two Fort Myers offices — on Port Royal Boulevard and in The Forum — will continue operating.

Premier Women’s Care new facility, which sits on 2.27 acres, will allow the practice to expand and enhance its services in Cape Coral, according to a statement.

The new building will feature three ultrasound suites, 3D mammography with changing rooms, offices, an elevator and covered parking. The second floor will house exam and procedure rooms, phlebotomy, consultation rooms, offices, storage and a breakroom.

There is an additional 3,000 square feet of office space available for lease, according to the statement. 

The facility will have 37 exam rooms and three procedure rooms which “will enable us to hire more women’s health providers, so we will have more available appointments — including same-day appointments,” Dr. Shannon O’Hara, a physician with the practices, says in the statement 

The Cape Coral office, a spokesperson says, currently has nine ob-gyns, one urogynecologist, five certified nurse midwives and three physician assistants. Overall, the practice has 30 providers, "with more on the way soon."

The new space will be more than twice as large as the 13,000-square-foot Viscaya Parkway office, which had been the practice’s home going back to when the founding physicians of Premier Women’s Care were part of Physicians’ Primary Care. (Premier Women’s Care of Southwest Florida began Jan. 1, 2019.)

The practice works with women of all ages offering obstetrical and gynecological care, including well-woman exams, menopause care, weight management, family planning, gynecologic surgery, prenatal, delivery and postpartum care.

An official ribbon-cutting is scheduled for Feb. 2 at the new facility.