Caption: The project will transform the health system’s Orlando campus by adding a 14-story patient and surgical tower and expanding services across a range of specialties. | Photo Credit: AdventHealth
By Lindsey Coulter
ORLANDO, Fla. — AdventHealth recently announced a $1 billion investment that will impact healthcare quality and access across the rapidly growing Central Florida region. The big-ticket project will transform the health system’s Orlando campus by adding a 14-story patient and surgical tower and expanding services across a range of specialties. The sweeping project will also support ongoing recruitment efforts as well as the training of physicians, nurses and other clinical team members.
In a statement, AdventHealth noted the system is serving an ever-growing population, with approximately 1,500 people moving to the Orlando area each week. This increase in patient density inspired the health system to invest heavily in its national flagship campus to “ensure the region never outgrows its health care, and that we have a workforce of highly skilled and compassionate physicians and nurses.”
The new tower is expected to open to patients in 2030, offering the capacity for new endoscopy and imaging services as well as 24 operating rooms and 440 inpatient beds. Brasfield & Gorrie is the general contractor on the project, and HuntonBrady is the architect.
In addition to the new patient tower, the project will also include investments in new life-saving technologies such as robot-assisted kidney transplant and creating additional residency and fellowship programs to train and attract more physicians to the region, moving the health system from 24 accredited programs with 358 accredited residents and fellows to 33 accredited programs and 467 positions by 2029. Training a larger healthcare workforce will also require the development of a new simulation center.
“This project is paving the way for our Orlando campus to become America’s epicenter for surgical advancement, breakthrough treatments, pioneering research and medical education—all centered on our whole-person health philosophy,” said AdventHealth Orlando CEO Rob Deininger in a statement.
The AdventHealth Orlando campus was first established in 1908 as a small facility staff by one doctor and several staff members. Over the past century, the campus has expanded exponentially to encompass 172 acres, employing an estimated 10,000 team members across different services and specialties.
“Our vision is for AdventHealth Orlando to serve our city as a vibrant civic center while growing as a magnet for science and health care innovation,” Deininger said in a statement. “We will work to host conferences and attract top talent and business partners to AdventHealth from across the country and the world.”
“We are setting the national standard for advanced medicine,” added AdventHealth Orlando Chief Nursing Officer Britney Benitez in a statement. “We’re not only Central Florida’s leading health system and most trusted by our neighbors, we’re a medical destination for people across the world.”
