History
In 1961, Don W. Welch, CEO of Florida Sanitarium and others purchased a pasture north of Orlando, Florida. [5] In 1979, Mardian J. Blair the second CEO of Florida Hospital. [5] In 1970, the name Florida Hospital was first used when Florida Sanitarium changed its name to Florida Hospital Orlando. [6] [7] In 1984, Thomas L. Werner became the president and CEO of Florida Hospital. [8] In late August 1993, Florida Hospital purchased Kissimmee Memorial Hospital from Columbia Hospital Corporation. Making it the fifth hospital to be operated by the subsidiary. [9] Also Willow Creek Hospital in Arlington, Texas was sold by Columbia Hospital Corporation to Adventist Health System. Both hospitals were sold for $26.5 million, ending a lawsuit filed by Adventist Health System against Columbia Hospital Corporation. [9] In August 1999, Thomas L. Werner president and CEO of Florida Hospital left to become the president and CEO of Adventist Health System. [8] [10]
In late March 2000, Florida Hospital announced that it planned to purchase Winter Park Memorial Hospital. [11] In early July, it took over the management of the hospital. [12] In late February 2006, Donald L. Jernigan executive vice president and CEO of Florida Florida was chosen as president and CEO of Adventist Health System. He took office on March 1. [13] [14] In 2006, Lars Houmann became the new president and CEO of Florida Hospital. [15]
In early December 2012, Kangaroo Express donated $110,000 to Florida Hospital Pink Army for its fight against breast cancer. [16] [17] In early October 2013, Florida Hospital opened two women's health centers, one in Celebration, Florida and another in Winter Park, Florida. [18] [19] [20] On December 1, 2015, Lars Houman became president and CEO of only Adventist Health System's Florida Division, he and his predicures were doing both of the jobs. [15] [21] [22]
In early February 2016, Florida Hospital opened its third free lung clinic in Kissimmee, Florida. [23] [24] [25] After the Pulse nightclub shooting in early June, Florida Hospital spent $3.5 million on security. [26] It purchased 2,500 security cameras and had them installed at there central Florida campuses. And it also purchased six German Shepherds. [27] [28] Florida Hospital hired 162 security guards to patrol its central Florida campuses, the majority of them would be in uniform and twelve of them would be in dress clothes. [26]
In late May 2017, Florida Hospital was negotiating with Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute to purchase their facility in Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida. [29] [30] But in late January 2018, they changed their mind about purchasing the facility. The reason why they changed their mind was because they did not want to compete against their partner University of Central Florida. [31] [32] [33] Before Florida Hospital changed its mind they had tried to secretly purchase the facility from Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, when Orange County officials found out about it they were upset. [34] In November, Florida Hospital became the first hospital network in the United States to purchase the Senhance Surgical System. The European robotic surgical system was approved by the FDA in October. [2] [35]
In early February 2018, Florida Hospital opened a fitness park in Daytona Beach, Florida. [36] [37] [38] On August 14, it was announced that Florida Hospital, a subsidiary of Adventist Health System, would be rebranded to AdventHealth. [39] [40] [41]
On January 2, 2019, all Florida Hospital health facilities rebranded to AdventHealth. [42] [43]
Walt Disney World
On February 2, 2018, Walt Disney World chose Florida Hospital and Orlando Health to offer health insurance for the majority of their 70,000 employees. [44] [45] By doing this they are cutting out the middle man. [46] Cigna will offer health insurance for employees outside of the service areas of the hospital networks. [47]
Sports
In 1989, Florida Hospital became the official health care partner of the Orlando Magic. It was renewed in 2017. [48]
In 2011, it was announced that the Florida Hospital would be the sponsor and official health and wellness partner of the Tampa Bay Lightning, their sponsorship was extended in 2014 [49] [50] and 2017. [51]
In 2012, it was announced that Florida Hospital would the exclusive hospital of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers under a sponsorship agreement. [52] [53] On August 27, 2018, Florida Hospital signed a naming rights deal with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. For ten years the training facility of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers will be known as the AdventHealth Training Center. [52] [54] [55] Florida Hospital and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers have made a series of educational health and wellness videos. [53] [55]
On October 30, 2014, it was announced that Florida Hospital would become the official healthcare partner of Daytona International Speedway, replacing Halifax Health which the racetrack had not renewed its contract with. [56] [57] On January 1, 2015, Florida Hospital officially became the sponsor of Daytona International Speedway [56] and during the Daytona 500 it operated the racetracks care center and ambulances. [58] On October 8, 2018, Florida Hospital was announced the sponsor of Speedweeks. [59] [60]
Health
In August 2013, Florida Hospital and Health First started offering Medicare Advantage plans in Flagler County and Volusia County. A year later it was expanded to individual commercial merchandise for those counties. Medicare Advantage was also added to Hardee County and Highlands County. [61] [62] On November 9, 2018, it was announced that Florida Hospital would buy a minority interest in Health First. The new partnership has to be approved by Health First's board of directors and be approved by the government. [61]
On January 11, 2017, it was announced that Florida Hospital would manage 15 health clinics inside Walgreens in the Tampa Bay area. They would officially be known as Florida Hospital Express Care at Walgreens. [63] [64] [65] [66] On June 15, Florida Hospital officially took over the walk-in clinics. [67] [68] In late January, the subsidiary signed an agreement to be part of Connected City, Florida. [69] [70] In early October, Florida Hospital partnered with the American Diabetes Association to fight childhood obesity by creating the Morning Mile program. The program encourages students to walk and run, it was introduced at five elementary schools in Flagler County and Volusia County. [71] [72] [73]
In early June 2018, Volusia County School approved a $2 million, five-year partnership with Florida Hospital by a vote of 4-0. [74] This made Florida Hospital the Official Healthcare Champion of Volusia County Schools. [75] It will involve the renaming of fifteen health services academies and programs at the school districts middle schools and high schools. [74] The students are being taught biomedical sciences, sport science and Emergency medical technician/paramedic classes for future jobs in the medical field. [75] [76] As of a result of the partnership a meeting was held at Deltona High School, it was made up of mostly Halifax Health employees who were worried that their behavior therapy and mental health services would be restricted. [74]
Data breaches and aftermath
From January 2009 to July 2011, Dale Munroe II stole over 12,000 medical records from Florida Hospital Celebration Health, of patients who had been in motor vehicle accidents to Sergei Kusyakov. On July 12, 2011, Dale Munroe II was fired by Florida Hospital for the data breach. [77] [78] His wife Katrina continued the data breach until she was fired on August 2012. [77] On October 10, Dale Munroe II was indicted for conspiracy and four counts of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida. Later on October 22, he was arraigned in court and pleaded guilty. [77] [78] [79] In December, his wife was arraigned in court and pleaded guilty. [77] On January 7, 2013, Sergei Kusyakov who had hired the Munroe's was arraigned and pleaded guilty to the same criminal charges. [77] [80] On January 14, Dale Munroe II was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and two years of supervised release. [77] [81]
On March 20, 2015, Florida Hospital fired two employees for copying 9,000 medical records. It was notified by the Federal Bureau of Investigation of the crime on May 2, 2014,the data breach began in January 2012. [82] [83] [84] On February 28, 2018, Tanganica Corbett and Kevin Weaver II were indicted in the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida for conspiracy to defraud the United States, and two counts of wrongful disclosure of individually identifiable health information. [85] [86] On March 1, Corbett was arraigned in court and she pleaded not guilty. [87] On March 13, Weaver II was arrested and arraigned in court and he pleaded not guilty. [87] On April 24, the defendants appeared in court and changed their not guilty pleas to guilty, causing the trial against them to be cancelled. [87] On July 16, Corbett was sentenced to 1 year and 1 month in prison and 3 years of supervised release. Also Weaver II was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months in prison and 3 years of supervised release. [87]
In early July 2015, due to these two data breaches Florida Hospital faced two lawsuits from patients. The hospital network asked a judge to dismiss both of them. [88] [89] [90]
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