Port St. Lucie crossed a real milestone this year: a brand-new hospital. Florida Coast Medical Center opened its doors on September 9, 2025, becoming the first new hospital to open on the Treasure Coast in more than a decade.
The numbers are substantial. It's a $200 million, 180,000-square-foot facility with 54 inpatient beds and a 24-hour emergency department. It sits near Florida's Turnpike off Becker Road, in the fast-growing southern stretch of the city that keeps adding rooftops.
It's not just an ER and beds. The hospital offers neurosciences, orthopedics, spine care, robotics, general surgery, urology and advanced cardiac care. An adjacent medical office building houses physician practices and an ambulatory surgery center, so a lot of care can happen on one campus.
Behind it is a familiar player. Florida Coast is part of the Palm Beach Health Network, the Tenet Healthcare-affiliated system that already runs surgery centers in Vero Beach, Port St. Lucie, Jensen Beach and Stuart. So this is an established operator planting a bigger flag in the 772.
"Our vision is to redefine what the new normal for healthcare looks like on the Treasure Coast," CEO Tyler Sherrill said around the opening. The facility was also built with room to expand as the area's population keeps climbing.
For locals, the practical upside is simple: more emergency and surgical capacity closer to home, in a part of the county that's been outrunning its infrastructure for years. One more reason you don't have to drive south for serious care.