AdventHealth Orlando

Adventist Health System-Sunbelt, Inc. (doing business as AdventHealth Orlando) is a non-profit hospital campus in Orlando, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth and is the largest in the hospital network. The medical facility is a tertiary, research, statutory teaching hospital, psychiatric hospital, burn center, and comprehensive stroke center that has multiple specialities. It is the second largest hospital in Florida and the largest in central Florida. AdventHealth Orlando is the 3rd largest hospital in the United States in 2023. AdventHealth Orlando is the very first Seventh-day Adventist hospital in Florida owned by the hospital network. The medical facility is recognized by the state as being part of the Baker Act. In 2011, a murder-suicide took place at the hospital when a transplant physician was murdered by one of his patients.

In 1908, Seventh-day Adventists purchased a tuberculosis sanatorium for $9,000 that was for sale. The facility was on a former 72 acres (29 ha) farm, it was located between Estelle lake and Winyah lake in Formosa north of Orlando. In October 1908, Florida Sanatorium opened with 20 beds, two physicians, one nurse, dairy cattle and four patients. In 1912, a building made of concrete was constructed across the farmhouse. In 1918, a third story was added to the sanitarium increasing the capacity to 60 beds. In 1925, a new wing was constructed connecting the farmhouse to the concrete building. Beginning in the 1940s, Florida Sanatorium and Hospital began using modern medicines, molecular diagnostic and surgical procedures. On May 12, 1941, a new hospital unit opened with an operating theater, nursery and rooms for 20 patients. In 1970, Florida Sanatorium and Hospital changed its name to Florida Hospital Orlando. In 1986, Florida Hospital Orlando bought a helicopter and it was stationed at the hospital.

In October 2005, the hospital had a groundbreaking for a fifteen-story tower and it topped off one month later. The tower was being built for $260 million, it would open with 200 patient rooms and later expand to 440. One floor will be completely occupied by sixteen medical laboratories. The new larger emergency department will have seventy-two exam rooms, doubling the capacity of the emergency department. The old emergency would be renovated for radiology. In mid July 2007, the Ginsburg Family Foundation donated $20 million to the hospital for its heart institute. In December 2008, the Ginsburg Tower opened for $255 million saving the hospital $5 million. In late November 2015, Florida Hospital Orlando called the Florida Department of Health after a patient at the Ginsburg Tower tested positive for Legionella. They tested the water at the Ginsburg Tower, and on January 13 the tests confirmed that the bacteria was in the water. It was revealed that the bacteria that the patient had was different from the hospital. The hospital hired Chicago-based Phigenics to flush the water system at Ginsburg Tower, which took a couple of weeks to do. In late June 2018, Florida Hospital Orlando announced that it expanded its coronary care unit by adding eight beds. On October 4, the hospital announced that it would expand its Cardiovascular Institute after receiving a $3 million donation from the Ginsburg Family Foundation. On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Orlando changed its name to AdventHealth Orlando. On March 11, the hospital filed with Orlando to expand the emergency department at the Ginsburg Tower by 45,000 square foot (4,200 m2). Also in March, Brett Spenst became president and CEO of the hospital.

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