AdventHealth Heart of Florida

AdventHealth Polk North, Inc. (doing business as AdventHealth Heart of Florida) is a non-profit hospital campus in Davenport, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is tertiary and a primary stroke center that has multiple specialties. The hospital was purchased from Community Health Systems in May 2019.

In 1964, physician David Green donated real estate to Heart of Florida Hospital Association. On March 27, 1966, Heart of Florida Hospital opened to the public in Haines City. In August 1993, Health Management Associates began to lease the hospital. On June 6, 1997, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center opened to the public on U.S. Route 27. The three story 120,000 square foot (11,000 m2) hospital was built on 60 acres (24 ha) for $30 million, it had fifty-one licensed beds, twenty-one outpatient beds, an MRI and a cardiac catheterization lab.

In the spring of 2000, an expansion project began with a 7,000 square foot (650 m2) $5 million for a diagnostic radiology suite. In August 2000, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center had 75 beds. In March 2002, construction workers began to expand the emergency department by 7,000 square feet (650 m2), and renovating it for a total of $3.8 million. In August, construction workers began expanding the second and third floors of Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center for $3.4 million. In late January 2003, construction was finished on the hospital adding forty-five beds, that increased the total number of beds to 115. Originally the hospital had planned to add only 30 beds. In late October, the cities of Davenport and Haines City wanted to annex the land that Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center was on. In the end the city of Davenport annexed the land. In late November, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center broke ground on an $11 million, 38,000 square foot (3,500 m2) addition. It added a 15-bed cardiac intensive care unit, it expanded its laboratory, upgraded and enlarged offices, added a cafeteria and a physician's lounge. It also added two operating theaters, expanded its anesthesia care unit from five beds to nine and added a surgery unit for ambulatory care. In 2005, the hospital had 142 beds. On August 2005, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center announced that it would have a 5,981 square feet (555.7 m2), two-story $4 million addition built, for emergency cardiac procedures. In March 2006, the hospitals cardiac imaging center opened. In late August 2008, Heart of Florida Medical Center opened its fourth floor for $25 million, the joint replacement unit moved to the floor from the third floor. The new floor added fifty-two beds to the hospital.

In 2012, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center had 194 beds. In early March, construction workers began a 31,000 square foot (2,900 m2) expansion onto the fifth floor at the hospital for $9.5 million. When the construction was finished on the expanded floor, it included two operating theaters, a women's surgical suit with five beds, ten birthing suites, twenty post-partum beds and thirty-five beds for observation. The former women's and obstetrics space was taken over by the Acute Care for the Elderly unit and a fourteen room pediatrics unit. Originally the hospital had planned to only add 47 beds for $9 million. In late June, Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center had a grand opening for its Women's Health Center and opened it to the public later that same week. On July 30, 2013, Community Health Systems agreed to purchase Health Management Associates for $7.6 billion. On January 24, 2014, the Federal Trade Commission approved the merger of Health Management Associates with Community Health Systems and two days later the merger was completed. In late May 2016, Heart of Florida Medical Center

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