Florida Hospital Begins Construction Expansion

WESLEY CHAPEL, Fla. — Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel will begin construction this year on a $78 million expansion that will nearly double the size of patient rooms, operating rooms and emergency rooms.

“Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel was originally designed with the ability to grow with the needs of the community,” said Chief Medical Officer Robert Rosequist in a statement. “Since opening less than three years ago, the hospital has experienced extremely high volumes of patients seeking care.”

The 200,000-square-foot hospital opened Oct. 1, 2012, with 83 inpatient rooms, 18 emergency rooms, a catheterization lab and five operating rooms. The cost of the land and construction of the hospital and adjacent medical office building was $161 million.

“The community has overwhelmingly shown us both the need for the hospital and their confidence and appreciation for the high quality care our staff delivers every day,” said President and CEO, Denyse Bales-Chubb, in a statement. “We are so blessed by their faith in us and we know need to grow to meet both the current demands and future growth of the community.”

The expansion involves 111,993 square feet of new construction and 10,834 square feet of renovation. This will add three additional floors to the hospital’s center wing and add an additional three-story wing that will connect the south and center wings.

In the expansion, Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel will add additional emergency rooms, inpatient rooms, surgical suites and related surgical services, heart catheterization lab, and recovery/observation rooms as well as shelled space for future growth.

Robins and Morton of Birmingham, Ala., is the engineering company in charge of the expansion. Robins & Morton is the same construction company who built Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel from the ground up.

Construction is expected to begin this summer with the expansion opening at the end of 2016. A groundbreaking ceremony will be held on Aug. 5 at 10 a.m.