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3 days ago
- Business
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AdventHealth taps Brasfield & Gorrie for $660M medical tower
This story was originally published on Construction Dive. To receive daily news and insights, subscribe to our free daily Construction Dive newsletter. Award: Hospital tower Value: $660 million Location: Orlando, Florida Client: AdventHealth Orlando AdventHealth Orlando has tapped Birmingham, Alabama-based contractor Brasfield & Gorrie to build a 14-story medical tower as the centerpiece of a $1 billion investment from the health system, according to a May 14 news release. The tower comes with a $660 million price tag, according to Health News Florida. Located on AdventHealth's 172-acre campus in downtown Orlando, the facility will have capacity for 24 operating rooms and 440 inpatient beds. It will also provide endoscopy and imaging services. Brasfield & Gorrie, which had $6.4 billion in revenue in 2024 according to Engineering News-Record, has long focused on the healthcare market. It boasts a portfolio ofover 3,100 projects in the sector with a value of $23.2 billion, according to its website. Other aspects of AdventHealth's investment in its Orlando campus include the development of: Advanced services and technologies such as robot-assisted kidney transplants. Its Genomics Risk Assessment for Cancer and Early Detection program, which uses a patient's family history, medical history and artificial intelligence data to assess potential risk. The Little Miracles Unit, which provides more intensive care for infants born as early as 22 weeks. '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,' said AdventHealth Orlando CEO Rob Deininger in the release. Today, AdventHealth Orlando is home to 24 accredited programs, with 358 accredited residents and fellows. With the investment, it aims to add seven more programs and an additional 109 residents and fellows. The campus currently employs nearly 10,000 people and is on pace to enroll nearly 2,000 students at AdventHealth University, with a goal of 3,000 students when the tower opens. The tower's completion is slated for 2030, according to the release
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Health
- Yahoo
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.
