$45.7 million investment: AdventHealth Daytona Beach celebrates opening of new surgical center

AdventHealth's new three-story surgery center and medical office building is located on the hospital campus at 103 Memorial Medical Parkway.

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AdventHealth surgical patients who don't require overnight hospital stays now have access to a $45.7 million surgery center.

On Thursday, April 11, AdventHealth Daytona Beach celebrated the grand opening of its three-story surgery center and medical office building, located on the hospital campus at 103 Memorial Medical Parkway. A joint venture with Meadows & Ohly, health care real estate services firm, AdventHealth began constructing the building in February 2023. The facility is part of a partnership with Cardiology Physicians Group and North Florida Surgeons. 

"This $45.7 million investment is an investment that increases the community's access to the high quality compassionate care that one should expect from AdventHealth," said Audrey Gregory, executive vice president and CEO of the AdventHealth East Florida Division.

Spanning 60,000 square feet, the facility houses cardiac rehabilitation and imaging services, a surgical clinic dedicated to North Florida Surgeons, a 20,000-square foot cardiology clinic for Cardiology Physicians Group and a 20,000-square foot ambulatory surgery center. The architect on the project was HuntonBrady and the general contractor was Brasfield & Gorrie.

Gregory said that AdventHealth's East Florida Division is home to seven hospitals totaling almost 1,400 hospital beds for patients in Volusia, Flagler and Lake counties. Last year, AdventHealth added over 60 physicians and advanced practitioners to Volusia County facilities, specializing in gastroenterology, general surgery, oncology, urology and neurology, Gregory said.

"This is an incredible representation of that, expressed right here locally in Daytona Beach of how we're growing to serve the growing needs of our community and access to health care close to home," said David Weis, president and CEO of AdventHealth Daytona Beach and AdventHealth operations in the East Volusia market.

When AdventHealth broke ground on the facility last year, Weis said the vision was to have all the needed services under roof, particularly in cardiac and women's services. He's proud that this has been accomplished, he said.

Weis also recognized the support for the project from local elected officials — both from Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach. 

"We see ourselves as really honored to serve both the communities of Ormond Beach and Daytona Beach," Weis said."... It's taken this whole village to provide this much needed access point to health care here on this campus."

Ormond Beach Mayor Bill Partington said that inside the surgical center is a "hub of innovation and health care excellence, where lives are healed, bringing hope and the promise of a brighter tomorrow for so many."

"People are on a quest for the best health care possible care that is close to home, and near loved ones," Partington said. "We as elected officials hear about this need all the time, and it's a project like this that will make all the difference for so many in our community."

Daytona Beach City Commissioner and Vice Mayor Paula Reed commented on the population growth in Volusia County and how AdventHealth is responding to it.

"As our population grows, so does AdventHealth as our partner," Reed said. 

While construction started last year, the building is years in the making. Dr. Mark White of North Florida Surgeons met with Weis five years ago to speak about the building. 

"We're very excited to to bring state-of-the-art surgical care to this community in a safe, cost- effective, friendly place that really I think that the patients and their families will really enjoy having their procedure done there," White said.

The facility is symbolic to the evolution of medicine, said Dr. Dinesh Arab of Cardiology Physicians Group. The concept has been in the works for 10 years he said, and thanks to technological advances, patients can now receive minimally invasive procedures without a hospital stay.

"Hopefully this is a place where we patients come in quickly, get their procedures, get home quickly, heal quickly at home," Arab said.

 

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