{"id":226312,"date":"2026-04-10T13:43:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226312\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T13:43:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T13:43:14","slug":"new-200m-tower-construction-at-hca-florida-ocala-hospital-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226312\/","title":{"rendered":"New $200M tower construction at HCA Florida Ocala Hospital announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; HCA Florida Healthcare announced a major $200 million expansion at its hospital in Ocala on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The company plans to construct a new multi-story patient tower at HCA Florida Ocala Hospital. The expansion will add more than 470,000 square feet to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The tower will include 62 private care rooms and expand surgical services with new operating rooms. The company plans to employ 70 healthcare workers in addition to other positions once the expansion is complete.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, part of HCA Florida Healthcare, announced a nearly $200 million...\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/KFVIIGLEI5HFHLH4OUOI26FBAM.jpg\" width=\"980\" height=\"734\" \/>HCA Florida Ocala Hospital, part of HCA Florida Healthcare, announced a nearly $200 million investment to construct a new multi-story patient tower(HCA)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThis investment will allow us to expand and enhance our surgical capabilities, which will allow our highly skilled teams to serve more patients,\u201d said Lisa Tzanakis, chief operating officer, HCA Florida Ocala Hospital. \u201cThis project not only addresses today\u2019s needs but positions us to serve future generations with expanded access, advanced technology and exceptional care.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A new parking garage with more than 800 parking spots will be constructed as well.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcjb.com\/newsletter\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WCJB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OCALA, Fla. (WCJB) &#8211; HCA Florida Healthcare announced a major $200 million expansion at its hospital in Ocala&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226313,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10745,28,30,29,13119,102003,7931,5078,3833,102004],"class_list":["post-226312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-expansion","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hca-florida-healthcare","tag-hca-florida-ocala-hospital","tag-healthcare","tag-hospital","tag-marion-county","tag-new-tower"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}