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AdventHealth Celebration

AdventHealth Celebration is a non-profit hospital in Celebration, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a tertiary, statutory teaching hospital, psychiatric hospital, burn center, and comprehensive stroke center that has multiple specialties.[1] Built in the Mediterranean-style[2] it treats patients from around the world.[3] The hospital has an affiliation with AdventHealth Orlando.[4] In 2023, AdventHealth Celebration was tied with AdventHealth Kissimmee, as being the second largest employer in Osceola County with 3,565 employees.[5]

History

1996-1997

In November 1996, Florida Hospital applied with the Agency for Health Care Administration to build a hospital in Celebration, Florida for $1.2 million. The state agency criticized the cost of the project.[6] On January 13, 1997, the Agency for Health Care Administration rejected Florida Hospital's request to build a hospital at Celebration, Florida. It had wanted to move 60 beds from Florida Hospital Kissimmee to Celebration Health.[7][8] In early July, the Agency for Health Care Administration rejected Florida Hospital's second request to build a hospital. The reason was given that there was no need for more beds in the area.[9] The Walt Disney Company wanted a hospital in Celebration, Florida and chose Florida Hospital to build and operate it. On October 1, Florida Hospital Celebration Health opened with 40 beds.[3][10][11]

2002-2019

On March 14, 2002, Florida Hospital Celebration Health announced that it had applied with the Agency for Health Care Administration for 60 new beds.[12][13] In early June, they were instead given permission to add only 40 new beds.[14] On November 11, 2009, construction workers began to build a five-story patient tower at the hospital for a cost of $90 million that would increase the number of patient beds to 120.[15] The total cost of the project increased to $100 million, and another $35 million was added when construction on the Nicholson Center For Surgical Advancement began,[3][16] the Nicholson Center opened on October 6, 2011.[17] The Nicholson Center was named in honor of a married couple from Winter Park, Florida who donated $5 million for it.[16]

In late April 2011, Florida Hospital Celebration Health announced it would increase the number of beds available from 112 beds to 174 beds.[18] On November 1, the hospital opened its 234000 sqfoot tower.[19] In late September 2012, Florida Hospital announced that it would have a building constructed at its hospital in Celebration, Florida for women's health.[20][21] In early October 2013, the hospital opened Celebration Health Women's Institute.[22][23][24]

In late April 2017, Florida Hospital Celebration Health announced that it would build a patient tower for $80 million, it would open with 76 beds and later increase to 160.[25][26] On July 19, 2018, there was a groundbreaking on a 174224 sqfoot five-story patient tower. When at full capacity the patient tower would increase the number of beds of the hospital to 400.[27][28] On September 5, Florida Hospital Celebration opened its outpatient infusion center for patients with cancer.[29][30]

On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Celebration Health rebranded its name to AdventHealth Celebration.[31][32] On November 1, AdventHealth Celebration opened a new pediatrics emergency department with 11 rooms.[33]

2020-present

On July 30, 2020, AdventHealth Celebration opened a five-story patient tower with 80 beds and at full capacity the tower will have 120 beds.[34][35] From 2021 to early July 2024, the hospital increased its infection prevention staff to protect patients after they have surgery.[36][37][38]

On January 1, 2021, all hospitals were required to have their chargemaster on its website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.[39] In early February 2023, almost all of the AdventHealth hospitals had their chargemaster on their website, including AdventHealth Celebration.[40] In August 2021, the hospital purchased a 320 sqfoot intermodal container from Freight Farms for $150,000. To grow such vegetables as lettuce, kale, bok choy, radishes, carrots and such herbs as dill, cilantro and basil for its cafeteria.[41][42][43] In early January 2022, AdventHealth Celebration was one of three hospitals in the United States, to use Memic Innovative Surgery's Hominis Surgical System. It is the first and only surgical robot with human shaped arms.[44][45]

In early January 2024, the hospital performed the world's first histotripsy on a patient with a kidney tumor.[46][47] In early April, AdventHealth filed with the South Florida Water Management District to expand AdventHealth Celebration. They planned to add a 44966 sqfoot five story patient tower at the hospital. This will be the fourth tower for AdventHealth Celebration, making it one of the largest hospitals in Osceola County.[48][49] Later that year AdventHealth changed its plans for AdventHealth Celebration, to a $340 million, eight-story 302000 sqfoot tower. With three operating theatres and eighty progressive care beds, this will increase the number of beds to 437. And the tower will have shell space for future expansion.[50][51][52] On January 15, 2025, construction workers broke ground on the tower at the hospital.[50]

On June 14, 2025, Vipul Patel medical director at AdventHealth Global Robotic Institute performed the very first prostatectomy via transcontinental robotic telesurgery on a patient in Angola.[53][54][55]

Notable patients

On January 9, 2023, Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized with abdominal pain under an alias. It was talked about worldwide from the United States,[56][57] Malawi,[58] Nigeria,[59][60][61] South Africa,[62][63] Zambia,[64] India,[65][66][67] Thailand,[68] Saudi Arabia,[69] Azerbaijan,[70] Philippines,[71] Australia,[72] France,[73][74] Spain,[75][76][77] Ireland,[78] Greece,[79] Malta,[80] Portugal,[81][82] Dominican Republic,[83] Uruguay,[84] Colombia,[85] Argentina,[86][87][88] and Brazil.[89][90][91]

Data breach

From January 2009 to July 2011, Dale Munroe II stole over 12,000 medical records from the hospital, of patients who had been in motor vehicle accidents to Sergei Kusyakov. On July 12, 2011, he was fired for the data breach.[92][93] His wife Katrina continued the data breach until she was fired on August 2012.[92] On October 10, 2012, 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.[92][93][94] In December, his wife was arraigned in court and pleaded guilty.[92] Sergei Kusyakov paid the couple $10,000 to steal the medical records.[95] On January 7, 2013, Sergei Kusyakov was arraigned and pleaded guilty to the same criminal charges.[92][96] On January 14, Dale Munroe II was sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison and two years of supervised release.[92][95][97]

See also

  • List of Seventh-day Adventist hospitals
  • List of burn centers in the United States
  • List of stroke centers in the United States

Further reading

External links

References

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