AdventHealth bought 17.47 acres in North Port with an eye toward building its first hospital in Sarasota County as part of a major move into Southwest Florida.
The West Florida division of AdventHealth, a Seventh-day Adventist nonprofit healthcare system, closed on the $7.86 million purchase on March 1, 2025, which is the same month it announced the purchase of two former ShorePoint Health hospitals in Charlotte County.
How might AdventHealth expand in Sarasota County and the region?
Since then AdventHealth unveiled plans to build a free-standing ER in Punta Gorda, on the southeast corner of Jones Loop Road and Mac Ever Street.
It is also one of three finalists seeking to either lease or buy DeSoto Memorial Hospital, a 49-bed facility in Arcadia, according to Suncoast Searchlight…