No hospital, just an emergency ‘department’. They’re popping up all over.

From the outside, the new Bayfront Health building in Pinellas Park looks like a typical medical clinic. With its brick facade and modest parking lot, it could be an urgent care center or a doctor's office. But it's actually a free-standing emergency room, equipped to handle much more critical cases. The facility at Gandy Boulevard and Interstate 275 is the first of its kind for Bayfront Health, which operates a traditional emergency room just a few miles away at its downtown St. Petersburg hospital.