Florida's Agency for Health Care Administration gave final approval for the University of Central Florida in Orlando and Nashville, Tenn.-based HCA Healthcare's proposal to build a 100-bed teaching hospital near UCF's medical school, according to the Orlando Business Journal.
The new 100-bed teaching hospital, named UCF Lake Nona Medical Center, will be built adjacent to UCF's College of Medicine campus in Lake Nona, Fla. The new hospital will be used to train medical students, advance clinical research and expand opportunities for medical residency programs.
Final approval for the project comes after the Florida Board of Governors, which oversees the state's public universities, approved the public/private hospital in March. UCF can increase the hospital up to 500 beds without further approval, according to the report.