AdventHealth is building a Winter Haven ER on Cypress Gardens Boulevard. Next: a hospital
WINTER HAVEN — AdventHealth held the official groundbreaking ceremonies for its new Winter Haven emergency room on Wednesday morning.
The health care provider acquired 42 acres off the northwest corner of Cypress Gardens Boulevard and Cypress Gardens Road last year. It plans to construct a new hospital and emergency room with medical facilities in stages at 6945 Cypress Gardens Boulevard.
"We are very excited to be taking this first step to further expand our footprint of emergency care services here in Winter Haven," Tim Clark, president and CEO of AdventHealth Polk Market, said in a statement. "The community has told us there is a need for convenient world-class, whole-person care here in the southeast area of Winter Haven and AdventHealth is proud to provide those services."
The company will build a nearly 20,000-square-foot, free-standing emergency department with 24 exam rooms in the first phase of construction. The emergency department will have resuscitation, bariatric, obstetrics and isolation rooms in addition to 20 private patient rooms. Two of these spaces will be designed to be pediatric-friendly. AdventHealth plans to build two triage rooms off the lobby to help patients get into treatment quickly.
The emergency department will offer laboratory services, including X-rays, CT scans and ultrasounds. There will be a helicopter pad setup behind the emergency department.
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AdventHealth's new facility was designed by architectural firm HuntonBrady, and construction will be overseen by Alabama-based Robins & Morton, which has offices in Orlando and Tampa. Construction is estimated to be completed by summer 2024.
A second phase of construction will see the buildout of a 192-bed hospital with medical office buildings that will connect to the emergency department.
Winter Haven Mayor Brad Dantzler said AdventHealth's new emergency room and hospital will help support the city's rapid growth by providing high-quality medical services.
"All you've got to do is drive down Cypress Gardens Boulevard and you will see over 1,500 units that are under construction," he said in a statement. "Winter Haven is in a massive growth spurt right now and this time couldn't be better for AdventHealth and Winter Haven to come in here and service the people who are moving in."
AdventHealth's new site will tie into its existing Winter Haven network with physician offices, a Central Care location and build upon its relationship with the Bond Clinic.
The site is less than 2.5 miles and a five-minute drive from the Legoland Florida Resort, for which AdventHealth is the official medical partner.
Sara-Megan Walsh can be reached at swalsh@theledger.com or 863-802-7545. Follow on Twitter @SaraWalshFl.
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