While Florida
Hospital Ormond Memorial and Halifax Health Medical Center in Daytona
Beach compete on many levels, both are in the throes of creating
state-of-the-art facilities with a common purpose—to improve the quality
of health care in the region.
Within the past
few years, Adventist Health System and Halifax Community Health System
(now known as Halifax Health) announced ambitious plans for new,
technologically-advanced complexes, each boasting state-of-the-art
medical centers.
Today, these
facilities are rising rapidly from the ground, changing the health care
landscape in the region, figuratively and literally.
“This is a
growing and vibrant community,” said Mike Schultz, chairman of the Board
of Florida Hospital Ormond Memorial. “The new Florida Hospital complex
will offer the very best of everything including an award-winning
medical staff, the very finest medical and surgical facilities,
outpatient services and comfortable surroundings for patients and their
families.”
The Chairman of
the Board of Commissioners of Halifax Health agreed the community
deserves the very best health care resources. “Health care in the 21st
century is complex,” admire Hosseini. “Meeting contemporary health
care needs requires the kind of highly trained professionals and
outstanding facilities that Halifax always has offered.We are proud of
Halifax’s new expansion, which enhances the outstanding health care
resources for our residents and visitors to our community. Halifax is a
community health system in every sense of the word. The expansion of
Halifax Medical Center serves all and it belongs to all.”
Florida
Hospital Ormond Memorial, which is an Adventist Health System facility,
is creating a stunning 12-story hospital complex on a 135-acre site on
Williamson Boulevard, just south of the Ormond Beach/Daytona Beach line.
Its medical complex will occupy more than 700,000 square feet, plus a
137,000-square-foot medical office building on the campus, with offices
for 43 physicians. The complex features distinctive architecture and has
become an instant landmark, visible fromWilliamson Boulevard on the east
and Interstate 95 on the west. The Adventist Health System also serves
the region through its other facilities—Florida Hospital/Fish Memorial,
Florida Hospital/DeLand, Florida Hospital/Oceanside, and Florida
Hospital/Flagler.
Meanwhile,
Halifax Health is continuing its commitment to the community with a
state-of-the-art medical complex that also is reaching skyward. The
10-story, 500,000-square-foot hospital addition is the cornerstone of
the Halifax expansion, a $200-million undertaking. The new hospital will
feature 180 patient rooms and will increase the size of the emergency
department to about four times its present size. Additionally, Halifax
Hospital Port Orange opened last year, bringing 80 beds and a complete
emergency department to one of the fastest growing areas of the county.
The system also includes Hospice of Volusia/Flagler, Florida Health Care
Plans, Volusia Health Network and Healthy Communities.
A Florida Hospital billboard bordering the new campus and visible from
I-95 proclaims the new complex as bringing “Groundbreaking Health Care”
to the area. It was posted before the Adventist Health System broke
ground on the $270-million complex in 2007.
Halifax
Community Health System recently shortened its name to Halifax Health
and introduced its advertising campaign, entitled “breaking ground.” So
while both entities put the spotlight on “groundbreaking” and both are
investing hundreds of millions of dollars in the future of health care
in the region, the big winners are the residents and visitors who will
benefit from leading edge medical and surgical care and related
services.
