Punta Gorda HMA Inc history

After the war in the late 1950’s another boom began with new subdivisions platted with canals connected to Charlotte Harbor in the Punta Gorda Isles and Burnt Store Isles neighborhoods.

In 1959 the hospital changes its name to Charlotte Community Hospital to better identify itself as a facility dedicated to serving the entire community.

In 1974 a new three-story addition is built, expanding patient capacity to 156.

The year 1977 brings a significant expansion in the hospital's diagnostic capabilities with the acquisition of an ultrasound unit and CT scanner.

When Schoen was elected to the board of directors in February 1983, HMA had reported a meager profit of $251,000 on revenues of $25 million in its latest annual results.

Over the course of two years, he helped shift the company’s focus to non-urban hospitals and brought in $7 million in outside investments, which led to Schoen being named co-CEO with Greene in December 1985.

In February 1986, two cardiologists perform the first cardiac catheterization.

HMA added three more hospitals in 1987, leasing a facility in Van Buren, Arkansas, and buying hospitals in Durant, Oklahoma, and Hamlet, North Carolina.

Another hospital, located in Gaffney, South Carolina, was purchased in March 1988.

In January 1989, HMA purchased an Orlando psychiatric hospital and a year later added the second of the company’s two psychiatric hospitals by acquiring a Tesquesta, Florida, facility.

In 1990 Sunbelt purchases Home Health Services of Charlotte and later adds a Lee County office.

In 1991, it bought 281-bed Riverview Regional Medical Center, located in Gadsden, Alabama, the company’s largest facility to date.

In 1993, HMA acquired hospitals in Greater Haines City, Florida, and Natchez, Mississippi.

In December 1994, the name changed to Charlotte Regional Medical Center.

In 1995, they added two hospitals, one in Hartsville, South Carolina, and another in Statesboro, Georgia.

In April 1997, he was named HMA’s president as well as chief administrative Officer and chief operating officer.

In 1999, HMA arranged to lease two more hospitals, located in Jackson, Mississippi, and Key West, Florida, and bought a third in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

In January 2001, Schoen, at 65 years of age, stepped down as CEO in favor of Vumbacco, some ten years younger, although he stayed on as chairman.

In 2011, the da Vinci Si Sugical System is purchased for $1.5 million and was the first system of its kind in Charlotte County.

Our cardiac care program remains a thriving one until 2012 when the program is transferred to our sister hospital at Peace River Regional, where a cardiac care wing has been built.