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Doug Harcombe, CEO of AdventHealth Central Florida South Market and AdventHealth Lake Nona, said AdventHealth Celebration is in a much better place than it was in 1997.
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The former CEO of the hospital held up an October 1997 magazine cover citing issues the hospital had at its start. The $150 million hospital, known at the time as Florida Hospital Celebration Health, was built without the then-required certificate of need from the state, which had delayed its opening.
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