History
1961-1995
In 1961, Carrollwood Community Hospital was founded. [1] In 1989, Centurion Health of Carrollwood purchased the hospital which was in debt and changed its name to Centurion Hospital of Carrollwood. [1] Two years later Centurion Health of Carrollwood filed for bankruptcy and put Centurion Hospital of Carrollwood up for sale. [1]
In early July 1993, University Community Hospital agreed to purchase the hospital from Centurion Health of Carrollwood for $17.4 million. The sale had to be approved by creditors and the United States bankruptcy court. [1] In early November, University Community Hospital officially took over the management of Centurion Hospital of Carrollwood and renamed it to University Community Hospital-Carrollwood. [5]
On February 15, 1995, a physician did arthroscopy on the wrong knee of a woman, [6] University Community Hospital-Carrollwood settled the case with the woman out of court. [7] Also a physician mistakenly removed a woman's healthy ovary, while leaving the one that was diseased. [8] The woman threatened to sue the hospital, her mistake took place in November 1993. Her lawyer told the hospital that he was willing to settle the case for $1 million, University Community Hospital-Carrollwood considered the request to be blackmail. [9] [10] The Agency for Health Care Administration ordered both University Community Hospital-Carrollwood, and its parent facility in Tampa University Community Hospital, to stop all elective surgeries on April 8, 1995. [11] In late April, the ban was lifted at midnight, after University Community Hospital-Carrollwood paid a $195,000 fine for its violations. [12] [13]
2009-2019
In 2009, an expansion and renovation project began at University Community-Carrollwood. [14] In the summer of 2010, phase one of construction was finished at the hospitals medical arts tower for $12.3 million. Three operating rooms were added to the second story increasing the number to nine. The third story was increased in size to 12,000-square-foot by renovating offices for a twenty-three intensive care unit and a progressive care unit. [15] [16] [17] On September 1, 2010, University Community Hospital-Carrollwood became part of Adventist Health System. This happened after University Community Health merged with Adventist Health System. [18] [19] [20] In late September 2011, University Community Hospital-Carrollwood was rebranded to Florida Hospital Carrollwood. [21]
In early January 2012, Stevens Construction started renovations at the hospital with the radiology department. [22] In late June 2013, construction workers finished renovating the fifth floor of Florida Hospital Carrollwood, and the hospital's surgical care unit with twenty-five private rooms opened in July on the newly renovated fifth floor. [23] [24] In 2015, construction workers began to expand the surgical tower by 45,200-square-foot, and renovated the older 51,000-square-foot space. The tower was finished in January 2017 for $71 million. [25] [26] In early April 2018, a $17.5 million expansion of the emergency department began at Florida Hospital Carrollwood. [27] The expanded Patel emergency department opened on December 19. It was named after Kiran C Patel who donated $5 million to the hospital. [28] [29] On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Carrollwood rebranded to AdventHealth Carrollwood. [30] [31]
2021-present
On January 1, 2021, all hospitals were required to have their chargemaster on its website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. [32] In a survey done in 2022, the majority of hospitals in Florida including AdventHealth Carrollwood had failed to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Law. [32] [33] It was not until early February 2023, that the hospital was in full compliance with the law. [34]
On February 1, 2021, The Weeknd donated 150 meals to AdventHealth Carrollwood for its employees, he did this to celebrate Black History Month. The meals were purchased at an african-american restaurant and were delivered by Postmates. [35] [36] [37]
In early February 2022, AdventHealth Carrollwood announced that it would renovate 25 patient rooms to treat COVID-19 patients. It will be 10,680-square-feet and coast $5.4 million. The money is part of a $285.9 million given to Hillsborough County from the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021. [38] [39] On June 21, ThunderBug visited employees and patients at AdventHealth Carrollwood after the Tampa Bay Lightning won game 3 of the 2022 Stanley Cup Finals. [40] [41]
In early February 2023, AdventHealth Carrollwood purchased 2.38 acres for $20.725 million. The reason why the hospital purchased the lot was for the 53,685-square-foot medical office building on it. [42]
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