In 1951, Dr. John Canakaris' opened Bunnell Medical Clinic with 5 beds.[citation needed] And later the clinic increased the number of beds to 22.[5]
In 1960, Bunnell Medical Clinic became Bunnell General Hospital with 60 beds.[5] In 1977, Bunnell Community Hospital with 80 hospital beds was built.[5]
In late May 2000, Memorial Health Systems chose to merge with Adventist Health System. On October 1, Florida Hospital officially took over the management of Memorial Hospital-Flagler.[8][9]
In September 2002, Memorial Hospital-Flagler moved to Palm Coast and was renamed Florida Hospital Flagler.[7] On September 22, 2002, Florida Hospital Flagler opened with 81 hospital beds and cost $67 million to build.[10]
In October 2002, the only YMCA in Flagler County opened by renting 6,500 square feet inside of Florida Hospital Flagler. On May 31, 2011, it closed after losing $50,000 for three consecutive years.[11][12][13] In June 2005, a helipad was built at Florida Hospital Flagler.[14]
In July 2011, Florida Hospital Flagler purchased 3 acres in the Cobblestone Village located by Golden Corral. On September 28, 2011, Florida Hospital Flagler had a ground breaking ceremony for the 34,000 square-foot Florida Hospital Flagler Medical Plaza.[15][16][17] On July 10, 2012, the outpatient clinic opened for $15 million.[18][19]
On September 23, 2012, Florida Hospital Flagler celebrated its tenth anniversary being in Palm Coast.[20][21][22] In early December 2012, Kangaroo Express donated $110,000 to Florida Hospital Pink Army for its fight against breast cancer. Florida Hospital received about $37,000 of that money donated.[23][24]
On August 1, 2013, during a special meeting Flagler County commissioners voted 4-to-1 to purchase the former Memorial Hospital-Flagler for $1.23 million. The reason why the county wanted the former hospital was for a new location for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office.[25][26] On September 21, the purchase of the former hospital was finalized.[27]
On November 11, 2015, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it was adding 32 beds and would ask for licenses for 16 current overflow beds. The number of beds would be increased from 99 beds to 147 beds and would add a second story above the emergency department. The expansion will cost $15 million.[28][29] On February, 15, 2016, Florida Hospital Flagler had a ground breaking ceremony for the 18,500 square-foot expansion. The expansion of the hospital was completed in the fall.[30][31][32]
In late January 2016, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it would expand its cancer center by 2,000-square-feet for $4.5 million.[33][34] On July 11, Florida Hospital Flagler broke ground on the expansion of its cancer center.[35][36] In early March 2017, the expanded cancer center opened.[34][37] Florida Hospital Flagler became the first hospital in the area to have the True Beam Radiotherapy System by Varian Medical Systems.[34][37][38]
On January 1, 2021, the United States government required all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website.[46] In early February 2023, almost all of the AdventHealth hospitals had their chargemaster on their website, including AdventHealth Palm Coast.[47]
In September 2021, AdventHealth Palm Coast had a simulation center built by renovating some of its offices. The renovation and the equipment for the simulation center cost a total of $1 million. It opened on April 22, 2022, and is the largest in the AdventHealth Central Florida Division. Its five classrooms train about 140 AdventHealth nurses each month and also nursing students from Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida.[48][49][50]
On July 11, 2023, AdventHealth Palm Coast announced that it would have a new cancer center built on campus. It would be 30,000-square-feet, two stories tall and would cost $30 million to build. It will be located on Florida State Road 100 and will be named Freytag Health Plaza after a married couple that donated money for it.[51][52][53][54] On October 26, AdventHealth Palm Coast had a groundbreaking ceremony for Freytag Health Plaza.[55][56][57] On March 19, 2024, AdventHealth Palm Coast and Robin & Morton celebrated the topping out of Freytag Health Plaza.[58][59]
Services
In early April 2012, Florida Hospital Flagler became the first hospital in Florida to offer Third Eye colonoscopy.[60][61]
On October 5-6, 2016, Florida Hospital Flagler under a mandatory order moved its patients by ambulance to other Florida Hospital facilities due to Hurricane Matthew.[65][66][67]
Award
In late December 2011, Florida Hospital Flagler became the first hospital in Florida to win the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award for its electronic health record.[68][69][70]
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