AdventHealth Orlando is launching a transformation of its campus, making the largest single investment in health care in Central Florida's history to meet our region’s growing health care needs today and in the years ahead.

The investments include a 14-story patient and surgical tower, expanded services in a range of specialties, and ongoing recruitment and training of physicians, nurses, and other clinical team members.

With approximately 1,500 people moving to the Orlando area each week, AdventHealth is committed to ensuring the region never outgrows its health care, and that we have a workforce of highly skilled and compassionate physicians and nurses.

AdventHealth’s more than $1 billion investments. With this new development, the hospital is looking forward to advanced services and technologies to help save more lives, such as with robot-assisted kidney transplant at Orlando’s only Transplant Institute; the Genomics Risk Assessment for Cancer and Early Detection (GRACE) program, which uses a patient’s family history, medical history and AI data to assess potential risk; and the Little Miracles Unit, providing more intensive care for infants born as early as 22 weeks.

The plan also includes creating additional residency and fellowship programs to train and attract more physicians to the region. Today, AdventHealth Orlando is home to 24 accredited programs, with 358 accredited residents and fellows. With additional investments, the goal is to have 33 accredited programs and 467 positions by 2029.

An additional priority is also advancing today’s clinicians and training the health care workforce of the future with investments at AdventHealth University, located on the AdventHealth Orlando campus. Investments underway include a new simulation center and bold recruitment goals – enrollment is on pace to reach 2,000 students this year, and 3,000 by 2030.

“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.

AdventHealth Orlando traces its roots to 1908, when a hospital opened on the shores of Lake Estelle with four patients, a handful of employees and one doctor. The campus is now a 172-acre complex with nearly 10,000 team members that includes AdventHealth for Women, AdventHealth for Children, AdventHealth University, the nationally recognized AdventHealth Institutes, residences, lodging, retail, a church and more.

It’s also the flagship of AdventHealth’s national network, with 100,00 team members, 55 hospitals and more than 2,000 care sites across nine states.

“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. “We will work to host conferences and attract top talent and business partners to AdventHealth from across the country and the world.”

For clinicians, the investments and new surgical advancement tower are an important step in the journey to national preeminence among leading health care systems.

“We are setting the national standard for advanced medicine,” said AdventHealth Orlando Chief Nursing Officer Britney Benitez. “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.”

The tower is expected to open in 2030 with capacity for 24 operating rooms, endoscopy and imaging services, and 440 inpatient beds.

Commissioner Robert Stuart, whose District 3 includes the hospital campus, noted AdventHealth’s important role in the city and the state – it’s the only not-for-profit, faith-based health system headquartered in Florida.

“Collaboration and innovation are the hallmarks of a successful community, and Central Florida would not be where it is today without AdventHealth,” Stuart said. “Our city’s future is bright, and I’m confident these new investments will propel us to the future.”

Additional announcements are planned in coming months as plans for the multi-phased project move forward.

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