Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel celebrated its fifth anniversary Sunday afternoon.

  • Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel celebrates 5th anniversary
  • Multi-million dollar expansion
  • New women's health center to open Oct. 23

It opened its backyard to the community with bounce houses, Pasco County Sheriff K-9 dogs, food trucks, and health and wellness stations to mark the occasion.

This past year, the hospital invested $78 million for an expansion, according to a news release.

Hospital CEO and President Denyse Bales-Chubb said the emergency department used to have patients waiting outside the rooms on stretchers.

“Patients were having to wait to be admitted to the hospital," Bales-Chubb said. "This year we don’t have that. We have plenty of beds to make sure we accommodate anyone who comes to the emergency room.”


Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel is celebrating its fifth anniversary and a multi-million dollar expansion. (Stephanie Claytor, staff)

“The community is growing just exponentially here.  We’ve had so many families move into the area and this allows us to continue to serve the community” she said.

On Oct. 23, the hospital will open its new women’s health center, dubbed “Inspiration Place.” The hospital’s CEO said it will offer a slew of new services, catering to women, as well as a spa.

“The female urologist is brand new," Bales-Chubb said. "The female breast surgeon is brand new. The female endocrinologist is brand new. We continue to look for other female specialties that are needed by the community and we’ll keep adding those.”  

The women’s health center will be housed in the hospital’s $11 million medical office building, which also houses its health and wellness center, physician offices and outpatient rehab. The women’s health center cost $2.8 million, according to a news release.

The hospital is also welcoming neuro-spine surgeons this week.

Bales-Chubb said the hospital currently has around 1,000 full time employees. It’s still hiring for the new women’s health center.

In January, the hospital will open an off-site 24-bed emergency department in Land O’Lakes.