In November 1996, Florida Hospital applied with the Agency for Health Care Administration to build a hospital in Celebration, Florida for $1.2 million. The state agency criticized the cost of the project.[6] On January 13, 1997, the Agency for Health Care Administration rejected Florida Hospital's request to build a hospital at Celebration, Florida. It had wanted to move 60 beds from Florida Hospital Kissimmee to Celebration Health.[7][8] In early July, the Agency for Health Care Administration rejected Florida Hospital's second request to build a hospital. The reason was given that there was no need for more beds in the area.[9]The Walt Disney Company wanted a hospital in Celebration, Florida and chose Florida Hospital to build and operate it. On October 1, Florida Hospital Celebration Health opened with 40 beds.[3][10][11]
2002-2019
Healing Garden at AdventHealth Celebration
On March 14, 2002, it was announced that Florida Hospital Celebration Health had applied with the Agency for Health Care Administration for 60 new beds.[12][13] In early June, they were instead given permission to add only 40 new beds.[14]
On November 11, 2009, construction workers began to build a five-story patient tower at the hospital for a cost of $90 million that would increase the number of patient beds to 120.[15] The cost of the project increased to $100 million when it also started constructing a building for the Nicholson Center For Surgical Advancement.[3] In late April 2011, Florida Hospital Celebration Health announced it would increase the number of beds available from 112 beds to 174 beds.[16] On November 1, the hospital opened its 234,000-square-foot tower.[17]
In late April 2017, Florida Hospital Celebration Health announced that it would build a patient tower for $80 million, it would open with 76 beds and later increase to 160.[18][19] On July 19, 2018, Florida Hospital Celebration Health broke ground on a new 174,224-square foot five-story patient tower. When at full capacity the new patient tower would increase the number of beds for the hospital to 400.[20][21] On September 5, Florida Hospital Celebration opened its infusion tower for cancer patients receiving outpatientinfusion therapy.[22][23]
On July 30, 2020, AdventHealth Celebration opened a five-story patient tower with 80 beds and at full capacity the tower will have 120 beds.[28][29] In early January 2022, AdventHealth Celebration was one of three hospitals in the United States, to use Memic Innovative Surgery's Hominis Surgical System. It is the first and only surgical robot with human shaped arms.[30][31]
In early January 2024, the hospital performed the world's first histotripsy on a patient with a kidney tumor.[40][41] In early April, AdventHealth filed with the South Florida Water Management District to expand AdventHealth Celebration. They planned to add a 44,966-square-foot five story patient tower at the hospital. This will be the fourth tower for AdventHealth Celebration, making it one of the largest hospitals in Osceola County.[42][43] Later that year AdventHealth changed its plans for AdventHealth Celebration, to a $340 million, eight-story 302,000-square-foot-tower. With three operating theatres and eighty progressive care beds, this will increase the number of beds to 437. And the tower will have shell space for future expansion.[44][45][46] On January 15, 2025, construction workers broke ground on the tower at the hospital.[44]
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