Your Generosity Inspires Healing

Serving Highlands and Hardee counties, AdventHealth Heartland is rooted in faith and compassionate care through our Lake Placid, Sebring and Wauchula hospitals. We are honored to care for each patient we serve as a whole person — body, mind and spirit.

Locations to Support

We've been serving our community by providing compassionate care in exceptional facilities since 1948. To continue to do so, our network of hospitals relies on your generosity. Learn more about each of our locations.

Campaign Highlights

Lake Placid Therapy Campaign

Our Therapy campaign focuses on renovating the Lake Placid Therapy Center to provide modern, accessible spaces that enhance healing and recovery. The improvements will allow patients to receive high quality therapy services close to home.

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Sebring Wellness Center

The Sebring Wellness Center campaign supports the construction of a new facility dedicated to caring for the whole person — body, mind and spirit. This center will promote preventive care, wellness education and healthier lifestyles for the community.

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Wauchula Capital Campaign

The Wauchula Capital Campaign addresses the community’s greatest areas of need by strengthening essential health care services. Funds raised ensure flexibility to respond to urgent priorities and long-term growth in patient care.

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Upcoming Events

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Pink On Parade: October 4, 2026

Pink On Parade is a breast cancer 5K and one-mile fun run honoring breast cancer survivors and those currently in treatment. Proceeds support the Breast Care Fund, helping provide vital screenings and care for patients in need.

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Clays and Camo: May 1, 2026

Clays and Camo is a skeet shoot tournament bringing together community members for a day of friendly competition. Funds raised support the AdventHealth Lake Placid Therapy Campaign and the AdventHealth Wauchula Capital Campaign.

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Celebrity Golf Tournament: November 6, 2026

The Celebrity Golf Tournament is a premier fundraising event combining golf, community and philanthropy. Proceeds benefit the AdventHealth Sebring Wellness Center and support whole-person health initiatives.

Peggy's Miracle: A Story of Hope and Healing of the Heart

Peggy, a longtime Lake Placid resident and AdventHealth Lake Placid Foundation board member, arrived to the hospital critically ill this spring – unable to walk and dependent on a wheelchair. Her heart function had dropped to dangerous levels.

Over multiple transfers and weeks of therapy across AdventHealth Lake Placid, Sebring and Wauchula, Peggy received expert, compassionate care. Nurses anticipated her needs, transport teams moved her smoothly and therapists supported her every step. Small acts made a big impact: warm blankets, bedside prayers, birthday surprises and sta who treated her like family. She even played piano during recovery. A month later, her cardiologist declared her heart function fully restored – a recovery Peggy calls nothing less than miraculous.

Feeling whole – body, mind and spirit. Whether it is a life saved or a life just getting started, your generosity brings hope to light. As a faith-based nonprofit health system, 100% of your donation to the AdventHealth Heartland Foundations goes directly to ensuring patients receive world-class care when it matters most.

Ways You Can Help

Donations of money, time and resources to our Foundation allow us to discover new and groundbreaking ways of treating illness while remaining true to our original mission of helping everyone feel whole in body, mind and spirit.

Volunteer

Sometimes time is more valuable than money. Ready to join more than 900 annual hospital volunteers in making a difference? Here are the steps you need to take:

  • Complete the Online Application
  • Interview with Volunteer Services
  • Background check for volunteers 18 years and older (the minimum age to volunteer is 16)
  • Health screening: drug and TB tests, and immunization records review
  • Assignment of start date, shirt and badge
  • Orientation
  • Annual flu vaccine

Learn more about volunteering at our hospital, or get started by filling out your Volunteer Application today.

Gift Shops

Located near the main lobbies at all three of our hospital campuses, our gift shops offer a variety of cards, gifts, magazines and personal care items. Your gift shop purchases not only bring a smile to our patients but also directly support our Foundation efforts.

AdventHealth Sebring Gift Shop
To contact the Sebring gift shop or place an order over the phone, please call 863-402-3131.

Hours:
Monday and Wednesday, 8 am to 5 pm
Tuesday and Thursday, 8 am to 6 pm
Friday, 8 am to 4 pm
Saturday and Sunday, closed

AdventHealth Lake Placid Gift Shop
To contact the Lake Placid gift shop or place an order over the phone, please call 863-699-4368.

Hours:
Monday, 12 pm to 4 pm
Tuesday, 8 am to 12 pm
Wednesday, 8 am to 4 pm
Thursday, 8 am to 4 pm
Friday, 8 am to 12 pm
Saturday and Sunday, closed

AdventHealth Wauchula Gift Shop
To contact the Wauchula gift shop or place an order over the phone, please call 863-767-8114.

Hours:
Monday through Wednesday, closed
Thursday, 9 am to 1 pm
Friday, 8 am to 12 pm
Saturday and Sunday, closed

Support What Speaks to You

Your generosity can help support meaningful initiatives, such as honoring caregivers, dedicating personalized bricks and memorials, assisting our team members, supporting our campaigns, making scholarships for health care workers possible and much more. Learn how you can make a difference.

See Our Support Opportunities

Reach Out to Learn How You Can Give

Contact our team to find out ways you can give back to our community.

About CREATION Life

CREATION Life is AdventHealth’s faith-based, whole-person health care program. Guided by the eight principles that make up CREATION — Choice, Rest, Environment, Activity, Trust, Interpersonal Relationships, Outlook and Nutrition — it provides a framework for the Heartland Foundation to positively influence our community’s physical, mental and spiritual health.

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