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AdventHealth Wauchula
Adventist Health System-Sunbelt, Inc. (doing business as AdventHealth Wauchula) is a non-profit hospital in Wauchula, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a critical access hospital and a statutory rural hospital. In 1988, the hospital received national attention after it was revealed that two babies were switched at birth there in 1978. In 2019, AdventHealth Wauchula received a bomb threat that forced it to evacuate.
In 1968, construction began on the first hospital in Wauchula, Florida. In 1970, Hardee Memorial Hospital opened. In late July 1992, hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the United States Bankruptcy Court in Tampa. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection had nothing to do with the baby-swap incident. Also in July 1992, the only physician who worked at the hospital quit their job and the medical facility closed later that month. When the hospital closed it had been going by the name Crest Medical Center. In 1994, Adventist Health System had reopened it as Walker Memorial Hospital Wauchula.
On May 31, 2016, there was a groundbreaking for a new hospital. The new 50,000 square foot (4,600 m2) facility was being built on U.S. Route 17 for $32 million about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) to the northeast. It would have twenty-five beds, a fifteen bed emergency department and extensive therapy rooms. On December 21, 2017, Florida Hospital Wauchula opened. In 2018, the Hardee County Industrial Development Authority purchased the old location for $2 million.
On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Wauchula rebranded to AdventHealth Wauchula. On November 8, the hospital received a bomb threat forcing it to evacuate all of its patients and employees. First responders from Desoto County, Hardee County, Highlands County, Manatee County, Polk County, Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission all responded to a 911 call from the hospital. But they could not find a bomb in the facility.
On January 1, 2021, all hospitals were required to have their chargemaster on its website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a 2022, survey most hospitals in Florida, including AdventHealth Wauchula, were found to have failed to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Law; the hospital came into full compliance with the law in February 2023.
In December 1978, babies Arlena Twigg and Kimberly Michelle May, were born at Hardee Memorial Hospital, they were inadvertently switched, unknown to their parents at the time.
In early September 1988, Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Florida, filed a lawsuit against Hardee Memorial Hospital and four of its employees in a United States District Court in Tampa for $100 million. They did this after a genetic test on Arlena, before she died in August 1988 from a congenital heart defect, revealed that she was not their daughter. The Twiggs asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate Hardee Memorial Hospital, which they did, finding that no federal crime had been committed.
In 1989, the Twiggs filed a lawsuit against Robert Mays of Sarasota, Florida to seek custody of Kimberly Mays; after almost a year they agreed to drop their custody lawsuit if a genetic test was done on Kimberly. Originally Robert Mays had refused to submit Kimberly to a genetic test. When the genetic test was carried out on Robert and Kimberly by Johns Hopkins University, it found that Kimberly was, to 99.9 percent probability, the daughter of the Twiggs.
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AdventHealth Wauchula
Adventist Health System-Sunbelt, Inc. (doing business as AdventHealth Wauchula) is a non-profit hospital in Wauchula, Florida, United States owned by AdventHealth. The medical facility is a critical access hospital and a statutory rural hospital. In 1988, the hospital received national attention after it was revealed that two babies were switched at birth there in 1978. In 2019, AdventHealth Wauchula received a bomb threat that forced it to evacuate.
In 1968, construction began on the first hospital in Wauchula, Florida. In 1970, Hardee Memorial Hospital opened. In late July 1992, hospital filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with the United States Bankruptcy Court in Tampa. The Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection had nothing to do with the baby-swap incident. Also in July 1992, the only physician who worked at the hospital quit their job and the medical facility closed later that month. When the hospital closed it had been going by the name Crest Medical Center. In 1994, Adventist Health System had reopened it as Walker Memorial Hospital Wauchula.
On May 31, 2016, there was a groundbreaking for a new hospital. The new 50,000 square foot (4,600 m2) facility was being built on U.S. Route 17 for $32 million about 0.75 miles (1.21 km) to the northeast. It would have twenty-five beds, a fifteen bed emergency department and extensive therapy rooms. On December 21, 2017, Florida Hospital Wauchula opened. In 2018, the Hardee County Industrial Development Authority purchased the old location for $2 million.
On January 2, 2019, Florida Hospital Wauchula rebranded to AdventHealth Wauchula. On November 8, the hospital received a bomb threat forcing it to evacuate all of its patients and employees. First responders from Desoto County, Hardee County, Highlands County, Manatee County, Polk County, Florida Highway Patrol and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission all responded to a 911 call from the hospital. But they could not find a bomb in the facility.
On January 1, 2021, all hospitals were required to have their chargemaster on its website by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. In a 2022, survey most hospitals in Florida, including AdventHealth Wauchula, were found to have failed to comply with the Hospital Price Transparency Law; the hospital came into full compliance with the law in February 2023.
In December 1978, babies Arlena Twigg and Kimberly Michelle May, were born at Hardee Memorial Hospital, they were inadvertently switched, unknown to their parents at the time.
In early September 1988, Ernest and Regina Twigg of Sebring, Florida, filed a lawsuit against Hardee Memorial Hospital and four of its employees in a United States District Court in Tampa for $100 million. They did this after a genetic test on Arlena, before she died in August 1988 from a congenital heart defect, revealed that she was not their daughter. The Twiggs asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to investigate Hardee Memorial Hospital, which they did, finding that no federal crime had been committed.
In 1989, the Twiggs filed a lawsuit against Robert Mays of Sarasota, Florida to seek custody of Kimberly Mays; after almost a year they agreed to drop their custody lawsuit if a genetic test was done on Kimberly. Originally Robert Mays had refused to submit Kimberly to a genetic test. When the genetic test was carried out on Robert and Kimberly by Johns Hopkins University, it found that Kimberly was, to 99.9 percent probability, the daughter of the Twiggs.