Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital commemorates five years with Orlando Health

St. Petersburg, FL (October 3, 2025) – Today Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital team members and the Tampa Bay Rowdies are celebrating five years of being a part of the Orlando Health system! Celebrations at Pinellas County’s only adult trauma center started early this morning and will continue through the evening, as team members and the community reflect on the journey from Bayfront Health St. Petersburg to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital. 

Since joining the Orlando Health family on October 1, 2020, Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital’s team members have made tremendous strides to improve the hospital’s Leapfrog safety rating from a “D” to an “A”.  The St. Petersburg hospital and Orlando Health also invested more than $3.5 million in local community non-profit organizations.

“Through the systematic focus on improving quality, enhancing patient experience, building a culture of excellence, supporting team members and reducing turnover,  reconnecting with the community and investing nearly $500 million in our Pinellas County facilities, we were able to turn this hospital into a place Tampa Bay area residents choose for quality healthcare”, said Jim Tucker, assistant vice-president and chief quality officer of Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital.

Milestones in the hospital’s history with Orlando Health include:

2020

• Orlando Health acquires Bayfront Health St. Petersburg and converts it from a for-profit hospital to a not-for-profit hospital

2021

• Bayfront Health St. Petersburg becomes the official healthcare partner of the Tampa Bay Rays and Tampa Bay Rowdies
• The MyChart patient management system goes live

2022

• The West Entrance closes and renovations begin. Updates were made to the hospital’s structural waterproofing, the clinical software system, the West Entrance and shared patient rooms are converted to private rooms
• Same-Day Discharge Joint Replacement Program begins, allowing patients to recover at home
• Orlando Health Emergency Room – Crossroads breaks ground

2023

• Orlando Health Emergency Room - Crossroads opens and begins providing closer, 24-hour medical emergency care to residents in St. Petersburg’s Tyrone Mall area

2024

• Bayfront Health St. Petersburg officially becomes Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital
• Bayfront Health Medical Group joins Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health, spanning Hillsborough, Pasco and Pinellas counties
• Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute – Bayfront launches
• The newly renovated West Lobby opens to the public
• Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital’s emergency room wins the HealthImpact DAISY Nurse Leader Team Award in Compassionate Policy, for their care of patients struggling with addiction

2025

• The new 22-private room Progressive Care Unit opens
• The new Surgery Lounge opens 
• Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital earns an ‘A’ safety rating from the Leapfrog Group
• Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute expands to the Tampa Bay area
• All Florida Medical Clinic Orlando Health sports medicine and orthopedic physicians join the newly expanded Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute in the Tampa Bay area
• Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital’s emergency department receives the Emergency Nurses Association’s Lantern Award

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $14 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States – including Florida and Alabama – and Puerto Rico. With corporate offices in Orlando, Florida the system provides a complete continuum of care across a network of medical centers and institutes, community and specialty hospitals, physician practices, urgent care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare, and long-term and behavioral health care services. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health’s mission is to improve the health and the quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. The system provided nearly $2 billion in community impact in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 24, the most recent period for which the information is available. For more information, visit orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X.