- November 13, 2024
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AdventHealth Palm Coast's next project will be a new cancer center and office building called the Freytag Health Plaza.
"People can receive their care under one roof, without having to leave their community," said Denyse Bales-Chubb, AdventHealth Palm Coast president and CEO.
AdventHealth announced the project in the open lot next to the AdventHealth Palm Coast hospital on Memorial Medical Parkway on July 11.
We need this cancer center. All of us know someone [with cancer]."
— SUE FREYTAG
The health plaza building will be a 30,000-square-foot medical office building housing the new cancer center, which will offer outpatient rehab, radiation treatments and occupational and speech therapy.
AdventHealth hopes to break ground on the project this fall and complete it by the end of 2024, Bales-Chubb said.
The current hospital's medical oncology team will move to the new building when it opens.
AdventHealth Palm Coast is partnering with the AdventHealth Palm Coast Foundation to build and fund the center, which will be named after AdventHealth Foundation philanthropists and board members Sue and Peter Freytag, Bales-Chubb said.
"They have been so dedicated to the Flagler-Palm Coast community," she said.
Peter Freytag said that his father taught him two very important lessons in life: Take care of your family, and then take care of your community. Foundation Chairman Tony Papandrea said the Freytags have a large philanthropic heart and have been contributing to Palm Coast's community for years.
The Freytags were also honored for their contributions when the Freytag Children’s Rehabilitation Center, also named after them, opened in 2011.
"They've impacted thousands of children's lives on a daily basis," Papandrea said.
Peter and Sue Freytag said they are proud to have the opportunity to take care of their community.
"We need this cancer center," Sue Freytag said. "All of us know someone [with cancer]."
Bales-Chubb said the current cancer treatment floors have far out-grown the space.
"Cancer is one of our fastest-growing health care concerns," Bales-Chubb said.
