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AdventHealth Daytona Beach soon will start construction on a $220 million, 240,000-square-foot expansion.
The Altamonte Springs-based nonprofit health system will add 104 beds and four new surgical suites as a part of the growth, which will include vertical expansion on two existing towers. It will grow from 362 inpatient beds to 466.
Other features that will be added include:
- More intensive care and progressive care beds, which will include an expanded cardiovascular intensive care unit and a dedicated neuro-ICU unit.
- Support services will include a new lab, a bigger pharmacy, more imaging space, and an expanded sterile processing unit.
- The facility's surgical suites will grow from 18 to 22.
“As an organization, AdventHealth has a deep commitment to growing with our communities and this major expansion at our Daytona Beach hospital will increase the community’s access to world-class, patient-centered care,” Audrey Gregory, executive vice president and CEO of AdventHealth's East Florida Division, said in a press release. “Less than two weeks ago, we celebrated the opening of our three-story, $45.7 million ambulatory surgery center and medical office building at our Daytona Beach campus. Now, as we embark on this new expansion project, patients will soon have even greater access to high-quality care close to home.”
Work on the hospital expansion will start this summer and the building will grow to nearly one million square feet. The project will have space to accommodate more growth in the future.
AdventHealth Daytona Beach opened in July 2009 and was a $270 million, 718,000-square-foot facility that was more than double the size of the original hospital, which was then known as Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial.
The health system has more than 6,500 employees in Volusia County and is the second-largest employer there based on Orlando Business Journal research.
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| Rank | Prior Rank | Hospital Name/URL |
|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Northeast Florida State Hospital |
2 | 2 | UF Health Jacksonville |
3 | 3 | Ascension St. Vincent's Riverside Cancer Program |