Healthcare Industry in Melbourne, Florida

Four hospitals carry a Melbourne address in the federal hospital database: Holmes Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital, Viera Hospital and Circles of Care (CMS Hospital General Information).

All four are classed as voluntary non-profit private hospitals; three are acute care hospitals with emergency departments and Circles of Care is a psychiatric hospital without one (CMS). Holmes Regional is on South Hickory Street, while the Orlando Health hospital and Viera Hospital are both on Wickham Road.

For directions and switchboard calls, the federal listing gives Holmes Regional Medical Center at 1350 S Hickory St in ZIP 32901, Orlando Health Melbourne Hospital at 250 North Wickham Road in ZIP 32935, and Viera Hospital at 8745 N Wickham Rd in ZIP 32940 (CMS).

Health First is the largest health employer on the City of Melbourne principal employers list, with 2,371 Melbourne employees in 2025 (City of Melbourne ACFR 2025).

That count ranks Health First fourth among all Melbourne employers in 2025, at 5.72 percent of city employment, behind Northrop Grumman, the School Board of Brevard County and the Florida Institute of Technology (ACFR Schedule 16). Nine years earlier Health First was first, with 4,066 employees and 11.45 percent of city employment. The report notes that Health First and MIMA merged in 2013.

The city schedule draws on the Revenue Department and the companies listed and does not explain the fall from 4,066 to 2,371, so readers comparing years should treat it as a change in the Melbourne count reported to the city (ACFR Schedule 16).

No other health organization reaches the 2025 Melbourne top ten, whose tenth entry, WABTEC Transportation System, counts 405 employees (ACFR Schedule 16). Eastern Florida State College, which runs the Melbourne nursing program described below, was tenth in 2016 with 591 employees and is not on the 2025 list.

Private health care and social assistance employers in Brevard County, which includes Melbourne, had 33,954 jobs at 2,239 establishments in March 2026, about one in six private jobs in the county (BLS QCEW, Brevard County).

Doctors' offices, outpatient centers and other ambulatory care employ the most people in Brevard County health care, 15,806 in March 2026, and pay the highest average weekly wage of the health lines, $1,491 (BLS QCEW). Private hospitals employed 8,153 and added 384 jobs in a year, the fastest growth among the main health lines. Nursing and residential care paid an average of $816 a week, a little over half the county average of $1,522 for all private jobs. These are county totals, so they include the Viera, Palm Bay and Titusville areas as well as Melbourne.

Within those Brevard County lines, offices of physicians (NAICS 6211) had 6,626 jobs at 598 establishments in March 2026 with an average weekly wage of $1,984, and general medical and surgical hospitals (6221) had 7,159 jobs at 18 establishments, up 412 or 6.1 percent from a year earlier (BLS QCEW). Home health care services (6216) moved the other way, with 2,465 jobs at 89 establishments in March 2026, 59 fewer than in March 2025, at an average weekly wage of $971.

Holmes Regional Medical Center is the largest sewer customer and second largest water customer of the City of Melbourne utility, behind only the City of West Melbourne for water (City of Melbourne ACFR 2025).

In fiscal year 2025 Holmes Regional paid $474,715 in water revenue and $709,276 in sewer revenue, 2.70 percent of the city's sewer total (ACFR Schedule 10). Orlando Health INC ranked seventh for water at $119,638 and sixth for sewer at $178,071, and did not appear on either 2016 list. On the property tax roll, Health First Physicians Real Estate was the second largest Melbourne taxpayer in 2025 with $59,025,110 in taxable assessed value, behind the Melbourne Airport Authority (ACFR Schedule 7).

Those schedules give a plain local signal that the city's own report does not spell out: the two hospital operators on Hickory Street and Wickham Road are among the heaviest users of Melbourne water and sewer service, and Orlando Health is a new name on the list since 2016.

Eastern Florida State College teaches its Associate Degree Nursing program on the Melbourne Campus at 3865 North Wickham Road, and the college reported a 98 percent job placement rate for 2023 ADN graduates (Eastern Florida State College ADN).

The Melbourne ADN program takes 72 credit hours, is accredited by the Accreditation Commission for Education in Nursing and approved by the Florida Board of Nursing (EFSC). Core courses meet on the Melbourne Campus in the daytime, and clinical rotations run from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM at sites throughout Brevard County, including weekends. The college's general line is 321-632-1111.

The Melbourne ADN program admits two cohorts a year, with core courses starting each Fall Term in August and each Spring Term in January; the application deadline is the second Thursday in March for the fall cohort and the second Thursday in July for the spring cohort (EFSC ADN). The college reports first time NCLEX-RN pass rates of 81.94 percent in 2023, 80.79 percent in 2024 and 69.52 percent in 2025, a decline applicants may want to check against the newest figures. The same page lists related programs: a Transition to Nursing RN A.S., a Practical Nursing/LPN CTC and a Patient Care Assistant CTC.

In July 2017 the college announced a Bachelor of Science in Nursing to begin in 2018, based in the new Health Sciences Institute on the Melbourne campus (EFSC news release, 2017). The release said the program was scheduled to launch in January 2018, that an Associate in Science Degree in Nursing would be required for entry, and that classes would be held on campus and online. That release is dated; the college's current program pages are the place to check present admission dates.

The Florida Department of Health in Brevard County runs a Melbourne Clinic at 601 East University Boulevard, open weekdays from 8 in the morning to 5 in the afternoon (DOH-Brevard Melbourne Clinic).

The Melbourne Clinic lists four services: family planning, immunizations, STI/STD services and Women, Infants, and Children (WIC); the main number is 321-726-2920 and clinic appointments are booked through 321-637-7300 (DOH-Brevard). Immunization hours end an hour earlier, at 4 p.m., and the immunizations line is 321-726-2916. A Teen Clinic runs on Tuesdays from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., booked through the same 321-637-7300 appointment line, and medical records are at 321-726-2925. The clinic is closed on weekends.

The City of Melbourne also listed Brevard Health Alliance among the projects completed or underway in the city by the end of 2025, alongside commercial and apartment projects such as Pineda Commons (City of Melbourne ACFR 2025). The Melbourne demographics hub and the economy section's major employers guide put these health employers in the context of the wider city workforce. Last verified: October 14, 2026, on CMS Hospital General Information, the City of Melbourne 2025 ACFR, BLS QCEW, DOH-Brevard and Eastern Florida State College pages.