Approximately 1,000 patients pass through the various doors of Gessler Clinic each day, receiving care in virtually every area of medicine. For years, the clinic has been an anchor for Winter Haven's health-care community
with its main facility located at 635 First Street North.

Three physicians – Drs. Ivan Gessler, Newell J. Griffith and Charles T. Parks, - founded Gessler Clinic in January 1957 to provide quality services in an efficient and expeditious manner to the greater Winter Haven community.

When it celebrates its 50th anniversary next month, it will be as a 54,000-square-foot facility providing medical and surgical care. In addition to Family Practice, specialties include Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Gastroenterology, Pulmonology, Infectious Diseases, Orthopedics, Allergy/Immunology, Endocrinology, Rheumatology, Medical Oncology, General and Vascular Surgery, Colon-Rectal Surgery, Plastic Surgery, Obstetrics-Gynecology, Ophthalmology, Otolaryngology, Pain Management, Pediatrics and Podiatry.

The main facility, which expanded in 1997 to include the adjacent building, provides extensive diagnostic services and an in-house laboratory. These services include conventional and fluoroscopic x-ray studies, bone densitometry, computerized axial tomography, MRI, mammography, ultrasound, nuclear studies, holter monitoring, stress testing and carotid, cardiac and peripheral vascular Doppler studies.

The Women's Division, two separate locations on Central Avenue, provides obstetric and gynecological care. The Children's Division at Avenue C, N.W. provides pediatric services. The Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center opened in January 1992, and the Orthopedic Division located at Ave. D, N.W. was added in July of 1995.