Florida Hospital Pours Foundation on New Winter Garden Facility

Florida Hospital officials and community leaders are set to start pouring the foundation of the new Florida Hospital Winter Garden facility. Scheduled to open in winter 2015, Florida Hospital’s new Winter Garden facility will feature a state-of-the-art Emergency Department as well as imaging services, a multi-specialty physician clinic, a sports medicine and rehabilitation program, and an outpatient surgery center.

FACTS:

• It will take 49,000 man-hours to complete the concrete work. That is equal to 40 workers onsite for seven months (or one worker 23.5 years).

• 8,540 cubic yards of concrete, 854 truckloads will be used in this project.

• 1,518,000 pounds of reinforcing steel will be used in this project, approximately 95 percent of which will be derived from recycled steel.

WHERE:         Florida Hospital Winter Garden

Located between Daniels Road and State Road 535, across from Winter Garden Village at Fowler Groves. Parking will be available within the construction site.

WHEN:           Thursday, Oct. 23

Pour to begin at 10 a.m.