AdventHealth West Florida

FOX13 Tampa Bay recently featured AdventHealth Wesley Chapel's new residency program, which will help fill the growing need for doctors in Pasco County. Learn more about the program and the ribbon cutting for the new AdventHealth Wesley Chapel Family Medicine facility:

Recently, AdventHealth graduate medical education (GME) residents attended the Bloom Health Expo to share their expertise and assist community members with their health care needs. Dr. Omari Hodge, Residency Program Director at AdventHealth Wesley Chapel, shares his thoughts on the importance of the expo for the community:

The Pepin Heart Institute at AdventHealth Tampa is always finding new ways improve patient outcomes, including employing leading-edge technology. Dr. Kenneth Yamamura recently completed the hospital's first Medtronic PulseSelect™ System procedure, performing a Pulse Field Ablation, a novel treatment option for atrial fibrillation.

AdventHealth recently served as a sponsor of Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield's Youth Football ProCamp! 🏈 While the campers ran routes and caught passes, AdventHealth's Nancy Dahl APRN FNP-C, MS shared her expertise with their parents about the importance of hydration and nutrition, as well as how to recognize signs of concussion. This info can be crucial in protecting kids during future games and events. Good luck to Baker and the Bucs this season!

AdventHealth Tampa's General Surgery Training Program is empowering graduate medical education (GME) residents to become future leaders in surgery. The program's newest group of residents recently began their training with suturing in the Simulation Lab, as well as cardiac arrest simulation.

Recently, Pasco County AdventHealth leaders and team members donned their hard hats, picked up their shovels and broke ground on the new AdventHealth Meadow Pointe Emergency Room! 🎥 Take a look at the highlights from the groundbreaking event and learn more about this new Pasco County facility:

Yesterday, AdventHealth Wesley Chapel cut the ribbon on the new Family Medicine Residency practice! ✂️ The new facility will serve to equip and encourage AdventHealth Wesley Chapel's residents as they train in the highest standards of clinical care. This AdventHealth residency program is the first of its kind in Pasco County, demonstrating our long-term commitment to the health and wellbeing of this region. The newly renovated 13,000 square foot practice features state-of-the-art facilities, including an in-house laboratory, procedure room, classrooms and 11 exam rooms. The physician shortage in Florida is currently projected to be 36,000 by 2035. AdventHealth aims to address this growing need, with plans to graduate 88 residents over the next three years through our GME programs at AdventHealth Sebring, AdventHealth Tampa and AdventHealth Wesley Chapel.

Over the weekend, our team hosted the Bloom Health Expo at the AdventHealth Training Center with WFLA and the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Our Care Crew offered visitors a variety of free health screenings, including 3D mobile mammography, plus CPR training, a combine challenge and more. Thank you to our team members for your hard work and expertise that made the Bloom Health Expo a fun and accessible health care resource for the community!

Thanks to generous donations to the West Florida foundations, we're welcoming a new unit to our fleet of mobile mammography buses! With one in eight women being diagnosed with breast cancer in their lifetime, early detection is key and contributes to a high survival rate. More than 7,000 patients (including 1,300 Hillsborough County Public Schools teachers and employees) were screened in 2023 through our mobile mammography program. This fully funded additional bus will significantly increase the number of lifesaving screenings provided every year!

AdventHealth is growing with the Pasco County community! This week, community and hospital leaders broke ground to mark the start of construction on the new AdventHealth Meadow Pointe Emergency Room. This will be AdventHealth's fifth ER location in Pasco County, and another impactful step in meeting the health care needs of a rapidly growing community. Opening in spring of 2025, the new 13,000 sq ft facility on Chapel Commerce Drive will feature 12 patient beds and two triage rooms, and will offer imaging and lab services.