Company Profile
Halifax Health
Company Overview
With an expanding network of specialized healthcare services, Halifax Health offers a tertiary hospital, community hospital, free standing emergency department, psychiatric services and a cancer treatment with four outreach locations, the area’s largest hospice, and Florida’s largest Emergency Department. Halifax Health provides a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Neonatal Intensive Care and Child and Adolescent Behavioral Services. Widely recognized for its outstanding medical staff and leading edge technology, Halifax health consistently receives top statewide and national ratings for its specialties including orthopedics, spinal surgery, stroke services, vascular services, and cardiology.
Superior pay and benefits, plus a workplace where modern medicine is the standard attracts a staff with unsurpassed skills and a caring attitude. Halifax Health employs more than 4,000 staff and has been recognized for its working environment by many area publications and was ranked #1 in the Orlando Sentinel’s 2007 Top 100 Companies for working Families. Halifax Health is the only company in Volusia County ranked in the Top 25 for the last four years.
Company History
Halifax District Hospital opened its doors to the community on January 3, 1928. Founded by the state legislature, the hospital began operations with 125 licensed beds. During World War II, the hospital became a convalescent facility. In 1947, it was remodeled and returned to the community as an acute care general hospital. In 1985, the hospital was designated as the area's only Level II Trauma Center and changed its name to Halifax Medical Center.
In 2007, after many additional services were added, Halifax Medical Center became Halifax Community Health System, and recently simplified the name to Halifax Health. Halifax Health is the area's largest healthcare provider with a tertiary and community hospital with 678 licensed beds, more than 500 physicians on its medical staff representing 46 medical specialties.
Halifax Health is proud to offer the residents of East Central Florida outstanding diagnostic and treatment capabilities that have been consistently ranked in the top five percent of all hospitals in the nation for clinical outcomes in the following areas:
Halifax Health - Center for Cardiology
Halifax Health - Center for Orthopedics
Halifax Health - Center for Neurosciences
Halifax Health - Center for Oncology
Trauma Center - Level II
Neonatal Intensive Care - Level III
Pediatric Intensive Care - Level II
Child and Adolescent Behavioral Services
Halifax Health expanded its services to the residents of Port Orange, New Smyrna Beach and other Southeast Volusia county communities with the opening of Halifax Health - Medical Center of Port Orange, an 80-bed community hospital in fall 2006.
In April 2007, Halifax Health proudly announced the beginning of the first phase of a new 10-year master plan - the construction of a new 10-story inpatient tower and Emergency Department. Halifax Health announced the official name of the tower during its grand opening celebration on June 12, 2009. The France Tower at Halifax Health Medical Center is named for the France family, who has pledged $10 million toward this technologically advanced facility.