Healthcare in Sebastian, Florida

Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital, a 145-bed medical and surgical hospital at 13695 U.S. Highway 1, is the only hospital in Sebastian and runs an emergency room open 24 hours.

Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital is a 145-bed comprehensive medical and surgical facility (Orlando Health). The emergency room is listed as open 24 hours at 13695 U.S. Highway 1, Sebastian, FL 32958, and the hospital switchboard is (772) 589-3186. The campus fronts U.S. Highway 1, the road that links Sebastian with Roseland to the north and Vero Beach to the south.

Orlando Health lists the Sebastian hospital's service lines as digestive health, emergency care, heart and vascular care, orthopedics, primary care, a spine program, stroke care, surgical care, and weight loss and bariatric surgery. The same page states full hospital and laboratory accreditation from The Joint Commission and advanced certification as a Primary Stroke Center. Those are facility designations; the page does not publish a current bed breakdown by unit.

The building has grown in steps. Vero News reports that the brick-and-mortar Sebastian hospital opened in February 1974 and that the 103-bed hospital was run by American Medcorp until Humana purchased it in 1978 and added 30 beds (Vero News, October 2024). In 2016 Sebastian River Medical Center filed notification NF160017 with the state's Certificate of Need program to add 48 acute care beds (Florida Agency for Health Care Administration). The 145-bed figure on Orlando Health's page as of October 11, 2026 is the current published count.

Orlando Health has owned the Sebastian hospital since October 2024, when it bought Sebastian River Medical Center out of the Steward Health Care bankruptcy and renamed it Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital.

Steward Health Care, the previous owner, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in May 2024. Orlando Health signed a binding asset purchase agreement for the Sebastian hospital on August 14, 2024, and no competing offers arrived by the August 26 deadline. U.S. Bankruptcy Court Judge Christopher Lopez approved the purchase, valued at $439.42 million in cash, on September 10, 2024 (Sebastian Daily). The same sale moved Melbourne Regional Medical Center and Rockledge Regional Medical Center in Brevard County to Orlando Health, which ties the Sebastian hospital to two hospitals north of the county line.

Vero News reported the Orlando Health go-live date as Thursday, Oct. 24, 2024, and described the deal as a $460 million purchase of Sebastian River Medical Center plus the two Brevard County hospitals. The court-approved cash figure reported by Sebastian Daily is $439.42 million; the Vero News total is higher. Either way, the change ended the Steward era at the Sebastian campus and placed it in a nonprofit system based in Orlando.

Walk-in urgent care in Sebastian is at Cleveland Clinic's Indian River Hospital Outpatient + Urgent Care, 801 Wellness Way, open weekdays 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturdays 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Cleveland Clinic lists the Wellness Way building as Indian River Hospital Outpatient + Urgent Care, with urgent care closed on Sundays and open to ages 6 months and up (Cleveland Clinic). The urgent care phone number is 772-226-4200. The provider directory places Urgent Care Sebastian in Suite 107 and lists it as a walk-in clinic that sees children, adolescents and adults (Cleveland Clinic provider listing). Parking at the Sebastian building is free surface parking.

The same Sebastian building holds a primary care office open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., at 772-581-5581. Among the services Cleveland Clinic lists at the location are X-Ray, Electrocardiogram (EKG), lacerations involving suturing, wound care, and school, sport and work physicals. The table below sets the Sebastian facilities side by side with their published hours as of October 11, 2026.

Sebastian's walk-in options narrowed in 2026. Treasure Coast Community Health said in a March 2026 release that it would close its Sebastian Health Centers in June 2026 and move its Sebastian family practice and behavioral health teams to its Fellsmere and West locations (Indian River Guardian). The West center at 8505 20th Street opened in September 2025 as an 18,000 sq ft facility. Treasure Coast Community Health was founded in Fellsmere in 1993 and offers a sliding fee discount based on household income and family size.

The larger hospital south of Sebastian is Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital at 1000 36th Street in Vero Beach, the other hospital in Indian River County, reached from Sebastian by U.S. Highway 1.

Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital is renovating and expanding its emergency department, adding 20 new treatment spaces with that work expected to be completed in late 2026, followed by eight additional treatment rooms and a renovated main entrance and lobby (Cleveland Clinic Indian River Hospital). Cleveland Clinic states that emergency services stay open through the construction. The Vero Beach campus also hosts the Welsh Heart Center and the Scully-Welsh Cancer Center, specialty programs that the Sebastian outpatient building on Wellness Way does not list.

To the north, the 2024 sale placed Melbourne Regional Medical Center and Rockledge Regional Medical Center in the same Orlando Health system as Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital (Sebastian Daily). That makes Sebastian the southern end of a three-hospital Orlando Health group on the Space Coast and northern Treasure Coast, while Vero Beach and most of Indian River County sit with Cleveland Clinic. Sebastian and Roseland sit at the Brevard County line, where the two systems meet.

GoLine Route 5 starts every run at Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital, leaving on the hour from 6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. on weekdays, and the bus is fare-free.

The Route 5 timetable runs from the hospital past US 1 and Riverwalk Plaza, Wal-Mart, U.S. 1 and Main St, and Graces Landing to Pelican Isle Apartments at a quarter past the hour, then along Fleming Street and Barber Street to the North County Hub at half past (GoLine Route 5 schedule). The return trip reaches Orlando Health Sebastian River Hospital again on the hour, with the last scheduled arrival at 9:00 p.m. GoLine is the Indian River County bus system, so the hospital stop is the northern anchor of the county's fare-free network in Sebastian.

For Sebastian riders who cannot reach a bus stop, the Senior Resource Association runs Community Coach, a door-to-door shared-ride service for eligible riders with no other means of transportation, including trips to medical appointments (Sebastian Daily, August 2024). Saturday service for both GoLine and Community Coach was extended to 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. starting August 3, 2024. Community Coach accommodates riders who use mobility aids, which matters for trips to Wellness Way and the U.S. Highway 1 hospital campus.

Last verified: October 11, 2026, on the Orlando Health, Cleveland Clinic and GoLine websites.