Orlando Regional Healthcare is proud to be home to Central Florida's only Level One Trauma Center.
Not all hospitals are trauma centers, and not every emergency department can handle every emergency. A trauma center is not an emergency department. A trauma center is a state-accredited hospital facility capable of highly specialized treatment for the most critical injuries. In Central Florida, this care can only be received at Orlando Regional Medical Center. In 2004, ORMC had 4,201 trauma patients from 47 counties and 36 states. Twenty-eight percent of these patients were from outside Central Florida and 20 percent of our trauma patients are children.
ORMC's trauma center features a multidisciplinary team of board certified doctors, nurses and technicians ready to treat the most severely injured patients 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Comprehensive trauma care services include dedicated, state-of-the-art trauma resuscitation rooms, operating rooms, radiology, and a 64-slicer CT scanning.
ORMC's Level One Trauma Center is designated as a "Trauma Program of Excellence" under the leadership of:
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Trauma Program Medical Director, Ernest Block, MD
- Co-Directors of Pediatric Trauma Services, Ross Morgan, MD and Donald Plumley, MD
We are here to provide comprehensive care to the most critically-injured patients throughout our community.
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Getting a patient to definitive care within the first hour (the Golden Hour) after injury increases their chance of survival by 85%.
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Trauma is the leading cause of death for adults under 45 and children over the age of one.
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The majority of trauma patients at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) are from motor vehicle-related injuries.
For more information or if you have any questions, please contact our Trauma Concern Line at 321 841-6582.