Orlando Health breaks ground on new freestanding emergency room in Longwood

Orlando, FL (April 11, 2024) – Today Orlando Health broke ground in Longwood on its new freestanding emergency room (ER). The Orlando Health Emergency Room – Longwood will be an 11,900 square foot facility with 10 exam rooms, an imaging suite, lab and ambulance bay.

Orlando Health Emergency Room – Longwood is being built on the campus of Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. Plans call for the ER to be ready to serve the community in

2025 concurrent with the opening of the new Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital. Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital will close once the new Lake Mary hospital opens..

Most of the Longwood campus will be redeveloped, leaving two existing medical office buildings to continue offering important services such as cardiology, pulmonology, rehabilitation, general surgery, infectious disease, and urology.

“The new Orlando Health Emergency Room – Longwood represents our continued commitment to this community which we have been proudly serving for 40 years,” says Shawn Molsberger, senior vice president of Orlando Health’s northeast region and president of Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. “Our goal is to continue to expand and enhance the types of healthcare services we provide to the Longwood community.”

The new freestanding emergency room will serve patients 24 hours a day, seven days a week and be fully staffed with the same team members who currently serve Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital’s emergency room. The opening date for the new facility has not yet been announced.

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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