Florida Hospital Flagler is a non-profit organization that operates under a Christian mission of hope, health and healing. The hospital is a member of Adventist Health System, Inc., which currently operates 37 hospitals within ten states.
Adventist Health System was founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1973 and it has quickly become the largest not-for-profit Protestant healthcare provider in the nation. Today, Adventist Health System organizations provide 37 hospitals totaling more than 6,000 licensed beds, care for nearly 4 million patients each year in inpatient, outpatient and emergency room visits, and employ almost 43,000 members of their communities.
The Adventist Health System acquired the Bunnell Community Hospital - which is now known as Florida Hospital Flagler - in 2000. The Bunnell facility maintained a daily census of approximately 20 patients. In order to meet the healthcare needs of the Flagler County community, Florida Hospital Flagler was constructed. In the fall of 2002, Florida Hospital Flagler opened its new facility, equipped with care centers for heart, cancer and women's health, the latest in medical technology and specially trained physicians who are experts in a wide variety of health care needs.
Within the past six years, the nonprofit Florida Hospital Flagler has invested more than $100 million in Flagler County's healthcare, both in the facility and state-of-the-art equipment, enhancing the level of care patients receive at the facility. Florida Hospital Flagler has grown with the community and now has 99 licensed beds, with the capacity to license 16 additional beds. This 320,000 square-foot facility employs nearly 700 people, not including medical staff, and each employee is dedicated to providing high-quality, compassionate care that continues to exemplify our Christian mission of hope, health and healing.
Our belief is to not only grow with the community and provide the facilities and equipment to improve healthcare, but to also recruit the needed physician specialties. In the past two years, we have recruited and attained physicians in the field of: Neurology, Family Practice, General Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Medical Oncology, Radiation Oncology, Gastroenterology, Emergency Medicine, Anesthesia, Radiology and Vascular Surgery. This represents a significant number of specialties and we are proud to be associated with the recruited physicians.
As the backbone of healthcare in the community, our not-for-profit hospital adds services that are needed in the community both profitable and not-profitable. Because our philosophy is to serve the community, 100% of our income is invested into healthcare services in Flagler County. We realize the community has a choice when choosing where to receive their healthcare and we hope the community will continue to choose Florida Hospital Flagler both for inpatient and outpatient services.
Florida Hospital Flagler is a member of the Flagler County Chamber of Commerce.
