The waiting room located at the front of the new Sarasota Memorial Hospital free-standing Emergency Room in Lakewood Ranch. The 15,000-square-foot facility has 21 treatment rooms and opened Tuesday.

The free-standing emergency room at Reunion Village is located along the I-4 corridor at 8011 Osceola Polk Line Road in Davenport. It will serve the community 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

The average stay inside a free-standing, less heavily used ER was 60 to 90 minutes. Inside Arvada’s new First Choice Emergency Room, the waiting room is comfortable and very small.

The SMH facility is the third free-standing emergency room in Lakewood Ranch, a 33,000-acre development that started in Manatee County 30 years ago that now has a population of 72,000, as the ...