# AdventHealth Palm Coast

AdventHealth Palm Coast is a non-profit hospital campus in Palm Coast, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. It became the first hospital built in Flagler County and it is also the second largest employer in the county.

## History
### 1951-1989

In 1951, Dr. John Canakaris' opened Bunnell Medical Clinic with 5 beds. And later the clinic increased the number of beds to 22.
In 1960, Bunnell Medical Clinic became Bunnell General Hospital with 60 beds. In 1977, Bunnell Community Hospital with 80 hospital beds was built.
Later Hospital Corporation of America purchased the hospital and renamed it Memorial Hospital-Flagler.
In 1989, a diesel fuel spill occurred at the hospital. Soon after the Florida Department of Environmental Protection ordered Memorial Hospital-Flagler that both of its underground fuel tanks had to be taken off of its property.

### 2000-2012

In late May 2000, Memorial Health Systems chose to merge with Adventist Health System. It had to be approved by both of the hospital networks boards, and by regulators from Florida and the federal government.
In September 2002, Memorial Hospital-Flagler moved to Palm Coast and was renamed Florida Hospital Flagler. On September 22, Florida Hospital Flagler opened with 81 hospital beds and cost $67 million to build.
In October 2002, the only YMCA in Flagler County opened by renting 6,500 square feet inside of Florida Hospital Flagler. On May 31, 2011, it closed after losing $50,000 for three consecutive years.
In July 2011, Florida Hospital Flagler purchased 3 acres in the Cobblestone Village located by Golden Corral. On September 28, 2011, Florida Hospital Flagler had a ground breaking ceremony for the 34,000 square-foot Florida Hospital Flagler Medical Plaza. On July 10, 2012, the outpatient clinic opened for $15 million.
On September 23, 2012, Florida Hospital Flagler celebrated its tenth anniversary being in Palm Coast. In early December 2012, Kangaroo Express donated $110,000 to Florida Hospital Pink Army for its fight against breast cancer. Florida Hospital received about $37,000 of that money donated.

### 2013-2019

On August 1, 2013, during a special meeting Flagler County commissioners voted 4-to-1 to purchase the former Memorial Hospital-Flagler for $1.23 million. The reason why the county wanted the former hospital was for a new location for the Flagler County Sheriff's Office. On September 21, the purchase of the former hospital was finalized.
On November 11, 2015, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it was adding 32 beds and would ask for licenses for 16 current overflow beds. The number of beds would be increased from 99 beds to 147 beds and would add a second story above the emergency department. The expansion will cost $15 million. On February 15, 2016, Florida Hospital Flagler had a ground breaking ceremony for the 18,500 square-foot expansion. The expansion of the hospital was completed in the fall.
In late January 2016, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it would expand its cancer center by 2,000-square-feet for $4.5 million. On July 11, Florida Hospital Flagler broke ground on the expansion of its cancer center. In early March 2017, the expanded cancer center opened. Florida Hospital Flagler became the first hospital in the area to have the True Beam Radiotherapy System by Varian Medical Systems.
On November 19, 2018, Florida Hospital Flagler announced that it was purchasing six acres from Flagler County for $175,000. It is located by Interstate 95 and Matanzas High School. It planned on building a 12-bed emergency department and a two-story medical office building for a total of $25 million. Later plans for the ER were dropped and AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway was built instead. On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Flagler rebranded to AdventHealth Palm Coast.

### 2021-present

On January 1, 2021, the United States government passed a law requiring all hospitals to have their chargemaster on its website. In early February 2023, almost all of the AdventHealth hospitals had their chargemaster on their website, including AdventHealth Palm Coast.
In September 2021, AdventHealth Palm Coast had a simulation center built by renovating some of its offices. The renovation and the equipment for the simulation center cost a total of $1 million. It opened on April 22, 2022, and is the largest in the AdventHealth Central Florida Division. Its five classrooms train about 140 AdventHealth nurses each month and also nursing students from Jacksonville University and the University of North Florida.
On July 11, 2023, AdventHealth Palm Coast announced that it would have a new $30 million cancer center built on campus. The 30,000-square-foot, two story building would be built on Florida State Road 100. On October 26, AdventHealth Palm Coast had a groundbreaking ceremony for Freytag Health Plaza. On March 19, 2024, AdventHealth Palm Coast and Robin & Morton celebrated the topping out of the building. The Freytag Cancer Center started treating patients in mid November and the hospital had a grand opening for the building on January 16, 2025. It was named after a local couple who donated money.

## Manhunt

On July 28, 2024, a prisoner was taken to AdventHealth Palm Coast for treatment for an injury by the police (the injury was faked by the prisoner), the inmate later escaped from the hospital. This caused AdventHealth Palm Coast to go on lockdown for the safety of its employees and patients. Seven hours later the prisoner was arrested by the police.

## Services

In early April 2012, it became the first hospital in Florida to offer Third Eye colonoscopy.

## Charity giving

In early August 2017, Florida Hospital Flagler, donated stationery and medical supplies to the Jewish Federation of Volusia and Flagler County.

## Hurricane evacuation

In October 5, 2016, the hospital was evacuated due to Hurricane Matthew. The hospital's patients were moved by ambulance to other Florida Hospital facilities.

## Award

In late December 2011, the hospital became the first in Florida to receive the HIMSS Analytics Stage 7 Award for its electronic health record.