Orlando Health and Winter Garden Little League Score Home Run with New Partnership

Orlando, FL (July 17, 2024) – Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital and Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital are excited to partner with the Winter Garden Little League to help enhance baseball games for the community. Through a new sponsorship, three digital scoreboards have been installed on the fields.

“We love finding new ways to support the Winter Garden community and being involved with youth sports is a meaningful way to do that,” said Orlando Health Senior Vice President and Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital President Philip Koovakada. “The Winter Garden Little League plays an important role in providing healthy activities for local kids and bringing neighbors together.”

The new scoreboards were installed over the summer, just in time for the fall season.

“Our mission as board members of Winter Garden Little League is to provide a memorable experience playing the game of baseball for our 600 young athletes and families,” said Mark Kirkland, Vice President of the Winter Garden Little League. “Thanks to our partnership with Orlando Health and the city of Winter Garden, we’ve provided three new scoreboards for teams, families, and fans to easily keep track of the games. The scoreboards are a home run for all involved and key part of the recent field upgrades, marking a new era for our Winter Garden Little League community.”

About Orlando Health

Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.

Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems 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 3,487-bed system includes 17 hospitals, 10 free-standing emergency rooms and nine Hospital Care at Home programs. An additional four hospitals and six free-standing emergency rooms are coming soon. The system also includes 10 specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,500 physicians.

In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients.  The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.

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