Orlando Health announces plans to build new freestanding emergency room in Lutz

Orlando, FL (December 15, 2023) – Today, Orlando Health purchased land at the corner of State Road 54 and Henley Road in Lutz, Florida, and announced plans to build a new freestanding emergency room (ER). Construction will begin in 2024, and the new Lutz ER will feature a 10,865 square foot facility with 10 exam rooms, imaging suite, lab and ambulance bay.

“Over the last decade, greater Pasco County has experienced tremendous population growth,” said Matt Taylor, senior vice president of asset strategy for Orlando Health. “The demand for convenient access to a wider range of choices in healthcare services has been increasing and continues to grow in this area. Orlando Health is pleased to expand its presence to serve this community and address their healthcare needs,” adds Mr. Taylor.

The property for the Lutz ER was purchased from LIV Development. LIV Development is currently under construction with Livano Sunlake, a 234-unit luxury multifamily and mixed-use development. Delivering its first units in April 2025, Livano Sunlake will provide to its residents an integrated clubhouse with leasing offices, fitness center, outdoor lounge area, resort-style pool, courtyard spaces, and a family playground. In addition to the multifamily and medical office components, this mixed-use development will offer vertically integrated public retail including a coffee shop, coworking spaces, and a freestanding pet care center.

The new freestanding emergency room will serve patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week and be fully staffed. The opening date for the new facility has not yet been announced.

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 the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system 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 3,429-bed system includes 29 hospitals and emergency departments – 25 of which are currently operational with four coming soon. The system also includes nine 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 FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,750 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 27,000 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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