Orlando Health, which just cut the ribbon on its newest hospital in west Orange County, already is underway on three other major projects.
The nonprofit health system — with $3.42 billion in revenue — will open the Orlando Health - Horizon West Hospital to patients on Jan 30 at 17000 Porter Road in Winter Garden. The six-story, 228,000-square-foot facility initially will open with 30 acute care beds, as well as shell space over three floors to add an additional 90 beds as demand for services in the area increases.
In addition, the hospital includes four surgery suites, a catheterization lab and imaging services, with space to add an additional surgical suite and cath lab to meet demand. Orlando Health's $145 million hospital tower is adjacent its existing 78,000-square-foot emergency department and medical pavilion that opened in 2018.
Once fully operational, the Horizon West hospital will create more than 150 new permanent health care jobs. Orlando-based Robins & Morton Corp. is the general contractor and Orlando-based HuntonBrady Architects is the architect.
"We are fortunate we had some community leaders at Health Central [Hospital] that had the foresight to buy this property long before any of this development," David Strong, president and CEO of Orlando Health, said during a Jan. 19 event for the hospital.
Strong also gave an update on three other big projects the health system has in the works, including:
- Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute: Construction is underway on the $341 million downtown complex, which includes a 75-bed orthopedic hospital and surgical pavilion. The project is expected to be completed by second-quarter 2023, according to project contractor Skanska.
- Freestanding emergency room at Interstate 4 and Championsgate: Construction has started on the project. Additional details were not available for the project, which is at 8011 Osceola Polk Line Road in Davenport near Interstate 4. Orlando Health owns a roughly 28-acre portion of the 108-acre Reunion Village mixed-use development. The site eventually could hold a full medical campus with a patient bed tower, but plans for a hospital in a future phase have not been announced.
- Randal Park Emergency Room: Construction is nearing completion on the facility in southeast Orlando. The three-story, 42,000-square-foot freestanding emergency room at the northeast corner of Dowden Road and Randal Park Boulevard is expected to be completed this spring.
Hospital executives couldn't be reached for additional details about the three projects.
Orlando Health is not the only area health care provider converting a medical pavilion and emergency room into a full hospital. Altamonte Springs-based AdventHealth is building a 100-bed patient tower on Fowler Grove Boulevard in Winter Garden that it expects to open in 2022.
Those projects come during a national construction slowdown. Nonresidential building, which includes medical facilities, declined 11% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $225.3 billion in December when compared to November, according to the most recent report from Hamilton, New Jersey-based Dodge Data & Analytics.
Orlando Health is a 3,200-bed system with $6.8 billion in assets, including 15 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments and a number of services across several medical specialities. Nearly 4,200 physicians have privileges across the system and it has more than 22,000 employees. During fiscal 2019, Orlando Health served nearly 150,000 inpatients and nearly 2.7 million outpatients.
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No. of licensed beds
| Rank | Prior Rank | Hospitals |
|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Jackson Memorial Hospital |
2 | 2 | AdventHealth Orlando |
3 | 3 | UF Health Shands Hospital |
