New Hospital Under Construction in Wesley Chapel

Wesley Chapel, FL (June 7, 2024) – Ground has been broken and construction is progressing rapidly at Orlando Health’s new Pasco County hospital.

Orlando Health Wiregrass Ranch Hospital will open with 102 beds and can accommodate up to 300 at ultimate build out. It sits on a 47-acre plot, located at the northeast corner of the intersection at State Road 56 & Wiregrass Ranch Blvd in Wesley Chapel.

With plans to open in April of 2026, the new hospital will provide exceptional emergency and inpatient care from clinical experts in a variety of specialties. It will be easily accessible for residents in Pasco and northern Hillsborough counties.

For more information on the Orlando Health network of hospitals, medical offices and emergency rooms, please visit www.orlandohealth.com.

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state- accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.

The 3,487-bed system includes 17 hospitals, 10 free-standing emergency rooms and nine Hospital Care at Home programs. An additional four hospitals and six free-standing emergency rooms are coming soon. The system also includes 10 specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,500 physicians.

In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.

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