Memorial Hospital

Memorial Hospital, also called Ormond Memorial Hospital, sat at 875 Sterthaus Avenue in Ormond Beach, Florida, and served folks in Volusia County for more than forty years, starting back in 1967, and you'll find that the main hospital was a seven-story building that had 205 staffed beds and included special units like coronary intensive care (CCU) and intensive care unit (ICU), with about 124 beds for regular care and 64 for special care needs, plus a nursery, and it provided emergency department services, inpatient care, outpatient care, and diagnostic imaging, along with laboratory services, and folks could access advanced cardiac and surgical technology as well, like robotic surgery and vascular procedures, with team members such as physician assistants working within the emergency department and a laboratory director running the lab operations who focused on compliance and team building. The hospital also offered maternity and neonatal care, comprehensive nursing support, personalized medical services, and a pharmacy right onsite, and had round-the-clock nursing, which included skilled nursing services for seniors with chronic or complex conditions whether for short-term or long-term needs, so both physical and mental health issues requiring 24-hour personal care were supported; these services covered memory care with secure communities, specialized programs for people living with Alzheimer's or dementia, and memory-enhancing activities, giving 24-hour support and safe environments, plus respite care for caregivers who needed a break. Rehabilitation and wound care were on offer, along with home pediatric services, while the medical staff made sure to provide careful assistance focused on each person, and nursing home services were available as part of the broader senior living and health care setup, making Memorial Hospital part of the nursing home and elder care directory, even showing up on senior living lists like A Place For Mom, and user reviews over time often gave high marks, with 80% awarding five stars and one review set showing 9.8 out of 10 based on 48 reviews, so feedback was often positive. The campus sat on a 28-acre property, and even though the hospital closed its doors around 2009 and finally shut the cancer center in 2010, it kept a focus on senior care and nursing support right until its facilities finally closed, and the old hospital needed about $800,000 a year to keep up maintenance before the decision came to demolish the building using a controlled implosion, which left the land open for other possible plans like apartments, townhomes, or a new assisted living community, but even with the building gone, the hospital's long history in Ormond Beach is remembered, and its services, amenities like free onsite parking, virtual visits, an onsite pharmacy, and specialized care options made it a central place for health care and senior living for many years. The hospital was part of Florida Hospital, under the Adventist Health System, operated as a voluntary nonprofit, and ran with a focus on quality care and compliance until its end, with annual patient numbers showing over 6,900 discharges and 42,000 inpatient days, so it played a big role in community health, and though the land was originally donated with the idea it'd be used only for hospital services-a rule discussed in court-events led to changes and now the site's waiting for new use that'll serve the area for future generations.