CHARLOTTE COUNTY – AdventHealth plans to expand its footprint in Charlotte County, with a new free-standing emergency department off Jones Loop Road, west of Punta Gorda Airport.

The proposed facility will be the first major undertaking by the West Florida division of AdventHealth since the Seventh-Day Adventist nonprofit healthcare system purchased the existing 254-bed Port Charlotte hospital at 200 Harbor Boulevard and a closed hospital campus from Community Health Systems Inc. in March for $265 million.

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