AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway

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AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway
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AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway
Geography
Location1 AdventHealth Way, Palm Coast, Florida, United States
Coordinates 29°33′7.09″N81°14′38.65″W / 29.5519694°N 81.2440694°W / 29.5519694; -81.2440694
Organization
Care system Private hospital
Funding Non-profit hospital [1]
Type General hospital [1]
Religious affiliation Seventh-day Adventist Church
Services
Emergency department Yes [1]
Beds100 [1]
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History
Construction startedSeptember 2, 2021
OpenedAugust 2, 2023
Links
Website www.adventhealth.com/hospital/adventhealth-palm-coast-parkway
Lists Hospitals in Florida

AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway is a non-profit hospital campus in Palm Coast, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a tertiary that has multiple specialties. [1] In 2025, the hospital fired an employee for pretending to be a registered nurse. [2] [3]

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History

On November 19, 2018, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it was purchasing six acres of land from Flagler County for $175,000. It is located by Interstate 95 and Matanzas High School. It planned on building a 12-bed emergency department and a two-story medical office building for a total of $25 million. [4] [5] [6] Later plans for the ER were dropped.

On January 19, 2021, AdventHealth announced that it was building a new $100 million, [7] [8] [9] 153,000-square-foot, four-story hospital in Palm Coast, Florida with 100 private beds. The cost grew to $167 million. [10] [11] It expected that the new hospital would create 300 to 500 full-time jobs, in addition to the 1,100 at AdventHealth Palm Coast. [7] [8] [12] In late April, by a vote of 7-to-0, the Planning and Land Development Regulation Board approved rezoning the 11-acre site. [13] In early May, the Palm Coast City Council approved the construction of AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway and a medical office building. The Palm Coast City Council made zoning changes to the district since it limited the height of buildings to 50-feet to allow the 80-foot tall hospital. [14] On September 2, there was a virtual groundbreaking for the new building. [15] On September 14, Robins & Morton began construction of the hospital. [16] [17] [18]

On May 24, 2022, there was a topping out of AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway. [19] [20] On July 31, 2023, construction was completed. [10] [21] On August 2, the hospital opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. [22] The hospital's design was led by HuntonBrady Architects. [21] It opened next to a 30,000-square-foot medical office building which opened on June 2, 2023. [23] [24]

After being open for one year, the emergency department at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway had treated 30,000 people, had 5,300 inpatient visits, and had 16,700 outpatient visits. The new hospital hired 650 employees. [25] [26]

Nurse imposter

On July 3, 2023, Autumn Bardisa was hired by AdventHealth as an advanced nurse technician. [2] [27] [28] She told AdventHealth that she had finished her education, and that she still had to take the required state exam to be a licensed registered nurse. She later told them that she had passed the exam and gave AdventHealth her license number, when they looked at it they noticed that the last name was different. To explain the discrepancy they required Bardisa to provide a marriage license to prove her identity. [29] [30] Bardisa later took the required residency program with AdventHealth. [3]

In January 2025, she was up for a promotion as a charge nurse, this intrigued a fellow employee who did some investigating and found out that she was really a certified nursing assistant with an expired license. [31] [32] On January 22, Autumn Bardisa was fired for impersonating a registered nurse and giving false documents. [33] [34] From June 2024, until her termination, she had treated 4,486 patients at AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway. [28] [29] [35] After the firing the Flagler County Sheriff's Office began an investigation into Bardisa, after the hospital reported to them that she had been impersonating a registered nurse. [36] Also the Florida Department of Health and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services joined the investigation; they interviewed employees at the hospital and the nurse from the other AdventHealth hospital that she was impersonating. [27] [28] [37]

On February 18, 2025, Bardisa passed the state exam and received a license to become a registered nurse. [2] On August 5, the Flagler County Sheriff's Office got an arrest warrant for Autumn Bardisa, she was apprehended at her Palm Coast home and was taken to the Sheriff Perry Hall Inmate Detention Facility. [27] [38] The police are charging her with seven counts of practicing health care profession without a license and seven counts of fraudulent use of personal identification information, they holding her on a $70,000 bond. [30] [31] [35] On September 2, Bardisa will be arraigned in court. [28]

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References

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