Annette Seabrook, MPT, MHA, FACHE named President of new Orlando Health freestanding rehabilitation institute

Orlando, FL (September 20, 2022) – Annette Seabrook, MPT, MHA, FACHE has been named president of Orlando Health’s new freestanding inpatient rehabilitation institute. Located on the Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital campus, the 54-bed inpatient facility will provide a full range of advanced rehabilitation services and will specialize in care for patients suffering from complex neurological conditions.

Seabrook previously served as the Market CEO for LifePoint Health (formerly Kindred Healthcare). In that role, she was responsible for the operations of two rehabilitation hospitals, including Community Rehabilitation Hospital North – a 60-bed inpatient facility, and the construction project of a third rehabilitation hospital in the Indianapolis market. She begins her new role with Orlando Health on October 3.

“Annette’s extensive experience in leadership roles at rehabilitation hospitals, as well as her work specifically in the neuroscience field, is exactly the right fit for the successful launch and overall operation of this new inpatient facility,” said Greg Ohe, Orlando Health senior vice president of ambulatory and post-acute services. “She will ensure that our accomplished rehabilitation team continues to provide the highest quality services to patients in Central Florida.” The current inpatient rehabilitation program at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, recognized by the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities, will relocate to the new site as the first freestanding comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility in Orange County, Florida.

Seabrook is a graduate of Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. She received her Master of Physical Therapy from Hahnemann University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and her Master of Health Administration from Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).  She founded the Coalition for an Indiana Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Fund in 2007.

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $8 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level Two Adult Trauma Center in the St. Petersburg region. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. 

Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows. The 3,200-bed system includes 10 award-winning hospitals, 9 hospital based ERs, and 7 free-standing emergency rooms; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,200 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 23,000 team members. In FY21, Orlando Health served more than 160,000 inpatients and 3.6 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided approximately $648 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.