Fort Walton Beach Medical Center is one of more than 450 HCA Florida Healthcare affiliated sites of care across the state uniting as HCA Florida Healthcare. 

• Now, as part of a statewide rebranding, Fort Walton Beach Medical Center will be known as HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital.

For the first time in Florida’s history, more than 450 HCA Florida Healthcare affiliated sites of care across the state will unite under a shared brand on March 3rd.

• According to HCA Florida, this transformation will create a leading collaborative healthcare network in the state.

“Our Florida colleagues and physicians have always been united in their commitment to serving our patients and caring like family,” said Chuck Hall, national group president at HCA Healthcare. “Over the past two years, we’ve come together in ways that better serve our communities and our colleagues, proving that our connectedness is our strength.”

HCA Florida Healthcare connects approximately 11,000 staff physicians, 77,000 colleagues, 49 hospitals and more than 450 physician practices, freestanding emergency rooms and urgent care centers.

• HCA Florida Fort Walton-Destin Hospital (as it will now be known as) has served the local community for nearly 50 years.

In the past five years, the hospital, and connected sites of care, have served more than 740,000 patients and invested in the community through the expansion of needed healthcare services, including:

• The addition of freestanding ERs in Destin and Navarre.
• A 10-bed expansion to the only acute inpatient care rehab facility in Northwest Florida.
• An expansion of our main emergency room and addition of a roof-top emergency flight helipad.
• A new parking garage.
• And a multi-phase project that encompasses building a new two-story patient tower with the capability of expanding vertically to four floors, bringing total capacity to 309 beds.

“This transition reflects our mission and our commitment to all we serve as we continue to work together to deliver high-quality care for patients across the Sunshine State,” said Hall.

To kickoff their rebranding, the Fort Walton-Destin Hospital will be sponsoring the FWB Chamber’s First Friday Coffee on March 4th at the First Baptist Church in Fort Walton Beach.