By Dan Hounsell, Senior Editor

AdventHealth recently broke ground on a100-bed Palm Coast Parkway hospital, which is designed to increase in inpatient care to the growing population of Florida’s Flagler County. The project, Flagler County’s largest health care investment, includes the second AdventHealth hospital in Palm Coast. The four-story hospital will be approximately 158,000 square feet.

AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway will include: an emergency department with full-service imaging; five operating suites; endoscopy services; outpatient laboratory; heart catheterization labs; 20 critical care patient rooms; and 80 general medical or surgical care rooms.

Flagler County’s only other hospital, the 99-bed AdventHealth Palm Coast, was built in 2002. Between 2010 and 2019, Flagler’s population increased by 20 percent, according to data collected by World Population Review. By 2026, Flagler County’s population is expected to grow by an additional 7 percent, according to SG2 Insurance Coverage Forecast, and providing accessible, high-quality acute care services to the burgeoning community is integral.

Plans also call for a 30,000-square-foot medical office building to be constructed as part of this $145 million project. AdventHealth Palm Coast Parkway will bring up to 700 new jobs to the area.