Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital Earns Patient Care Excellence and Operating Room Safety Awards

Orlando, FL (October 6, 2025) – Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital has recently been recognized with two prestigious awards, the American Heart Association Get With The Guidelines^® - Resuscitation Silver Award and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) Go Clear™ Award. These accolades highlight the hospital’s dedication to providing excellent patient care and fostering a culture of team member wellbeing.

Earning the Get With the Guidelines^® – Resuscitation Silver Award underscores the team’s commitment in treating in-hospital cardiac arrests. During these emergencies, timely medical team response and effective CPR are crucial in saving lives. The Get with the Guidelines – Resuscitation program was developed to ensure hospitals are following the latest research-based guidelines as outlined by the American Heart Association.

The AORN Go Clear™ Award signifies that Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital’s surgical team has successfully completed AORN’s comprehensive, evidence-based program and implemented advanced technologies to ensure a smoke-free environment wherever surgical smoke is generated. This achievement demonstrates the facility’s proactive approach to protecting the health and well-being of everyone in the operating room.

“I’m incredibly proud of our team’s commitment to continually raising the bar,” said Joe Khayat, Orlando Health vice president and president of Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital. “These accomplishments are the result of dedication, collaboration, and hard work, and they will have a lasting impact on the community we serve.”

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Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $14 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States – including Florida and Alabama – and Puerto Rico. With corporate offices in Orlando, Florida the system provides a complete continuum of care across a network of medical centers and institutes, community and specialty hospitals, physician practices, urgent care facilities, skilled nursing facilities, home healthcare, and long-term and behavioral health care services. Founded more than 100 years ago, Orlando Health’s mission is to improve the health and the quality of life of the individuals and communities we serve. The system provided nearly $2 billion in community impact in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 24, the most recent period for which the information is available. For more information, visit orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and X.