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Facilities

Ascension Sacred Heart Emerald Coast (ASHEC) 

ASHEC is a full-service, community-based, 86-bed hospital offering 24/7 emergency care. The site has both adult and pediatric emergency rooms and receives support from pediatric specialists at Studer Family Children’s Hospital in Pensacola. The site’s Family Birth Place provides specialized medical care to women with high-risk pregnancies and their babies, including a 10-bed Level II Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). This is the site for inpatient adult medicine (includes ICU), emergency medicine, obstetrics, radiology, and outpatient pediatrics rotations.  

Walton Community Health Center 

Walton Community Health Center is operated by the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) in Walton County- Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that serves as the residency’s Family Medicine Practice site.  All residents and core faculty provide care to a panel of family medicine patients in this clinic. This is also the site for the geriatrics and public health rotations and longitudinal educational experiences in behavioral health, women’s health, health systems management, point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS). 

Point Washington Medical Clinic

Every Tuesday, a designated faculty member and one to two residents provide care in this local free clinic as part of their longitudinal underserved medicine rotation.

Emerald ENT

Board certified otorhinolaryngologists provide full service ENT care to the people of northwest Florida. Residents rotate in this clinic and with the ENT physicians in the operating room at ASHEC during the PGY1 year.  

Brookdale Health Plus

Brookdale Health Plus is an assisted living and memory care facility located near ASHEC. Residents rotate here during their geriatrics rotation in PGY2 and PGY3 years.    

Emerald Coast Hospice 

Provides routine home care, continuous home care, general inpatient care, and respite care. Residents rotate with hospice providers during their geriatrics rotations in PGY2 and PGY3 years.  

Lakeview Center of Walton County 

Lakeview Center of Walton County provides care for adults and children experiencing a wide range of mental health and substance misuse issues. Residents rotate here during their behavioral health longitudinal experience.  

Coastal Skin and Dermatology 

Board certified dermatologists and physician assistants provide a broad variety of surgical, medical, and cosmetic dermatological services as well as skin care products and services to the residents and visitors of Florida’s Emerald Coast. PGY1 residents rotate in this clinic.  

Studer Family Children’s Hospital at Ascension Sacred Heart Pensacola

Northwest Florida’s only hospital solely dedicated to the care of sick and injured babies and children, the Studer Family Children’s Hospital offers a wide range of services to meet all of a child’s medical needs to include the area’s only Level III neonatal intensive care unit, pediatric intensive care, cancer care, rehabilitation and more than 120 board-certified physicians across 30 pediatric specialties. PGY2 residents perform inpatient pediatric rotations at this site.  

Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf 

Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf  is 15-bed rural hospital, in Port St. Joe, providing 24/7 emergency care to the residents of Gulf and Franklin counties. Ascension Sacred Heart Gulf offers urgent surgical services and cardiovascular care, as well as a helipad to provide rapid transportation of trauma and critically ill patients.  PGY3 residents rotate here for a rural medicine rotation.

Dermatology Specialists

Board certified dermatologists and physician assistants provide a broad variety of surgical, medical, and cosmetic dermatological services as well as skin care products and services to the residents and visitors of Florida’s Emerald Coast. PGY1 residents rotate in this clinic. 

Orthopedic Associates

Comprehensive, multidisciplinary orthopedic practice serving the residents of Okaloosa, Walton, and Bay county. Orthopedic Associates specialists treat every bone, joint, muscle, tendon, and ligament injury and condition, including fractures and sports injuries, as well as musculoskeletal and spine disorders in adults and children including scoliosis and arthritis. 

 


Contact Us

Remy Thomason, residency coordinator

Remy Thomason

Residency Program Coordinator  
Florida State University College of Medicine
Email: remy.thomason@med.fsu.edu

7800 US HWY 98
Miramar Beach, FL 32550

Phone: (850) 608-6494

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