15-05-2025
AdventHealth plans new 14-story tower at Orlando campus, other changes
AdventHealth plans to construct a new 14-story tower on its main campus near downtown Orlando, add more training programs to attract more new doctors and boost robot-assisted surgeries and other technological advancements.
The healthcare company announced its plans Wednesday, saying it would add more than $1 billion of enhancements to the campus in what it touted as the largest single investment in health care in Central Florida history.
Advent will spend about $660 million on the new tower, which will include 24 operating rooms, endoscopy and imaging services, and 440 in-patient beds. It plans to open the new facility in 2030, a company spokesman said. No date for when construction would begin was given.
'This project is paving the way for our Orlando campus to become America's epicenter for surgical advancement, breakthrough treatments, pioneering research and medical education — all centered on our whole-person health philosophy,' AdventHealth Orlando CEO Rob Deininger said in the company's news release. 'Our vision is for AdventHealth Orlando to serve our city as a vibrant civic center while growing as a magnet for science and health care innovation.'
The campus, located about two miles north of downtown Orlando on East Rollins Street, is a 172-acre complex where nearly 10,000 people work.
In addition to the new tower, Advent plans new services and technologies such as robot-assisted kidney transplants; the Genomics Risk Assessment for Cancer and Early Detection (GRACE) program, which uses a patient's family history, medical history and AI data to assess potential risk; and the Little Miracles Unit, which provides more intensive care for infants born as early as 22 weeks.
'We are setting the national standard for advanced medicine,' said Britney Benitez, AdventHealth Orlando's chief nursing officer, in the release. 'We're not only Central Florida's leading health system and most trusted by our neighbors, we're a medical destination for people across the world.'
AdventHealth Orlando also plans to attract and train more doctors, hoping that expanded residency and fellowship programs will grow from 358 physicians to 467 by 2029. It also wants what it called 'bold' recruitment goals for AdventHealth University, which trains nurses, healthcare administrators, physical therapists and others, to help enrollment grow to 3,000 by 2030. The university expects to enroll 2,000 students this year.
