Orlando Health Opens Community Grant Program to Central Florida

Orlando, FL (May 20, 2024) – Orlando Health has opened the 2025 cycle of the Orlando Health Community Grant Program. As part of Orlando Health’s ongoing commitment to be engaged and involved in communities throughout Central Florida, it offers competitive grants to assist in coordinating, enriching and supporting efforts that help promote health and wellness in our community.

These grants will serve to provide resources needed to fill a specific health- or wellness-related need. The Orlando Health Community Grant Program will focus mostly on funding initiatives that align with the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment, specifically initiatives that enhance access to care.

“Central Florida is teeming with organizations doing impactful work in the health and wellness space every day,” said Lainie Fox Ackerman, assistant vice president, Orlando Health External Affairs and Community Benefit. “By investing in organizations that are working toward building a healthier community, particularly in the areas of opportunity we see in the Community Health Needs Assessment, we can expand our own efforts beyond the hospital walls.” 

All interested organizations should submit a letter of intent application, which can be accessed by clicking here: Orlando Health Community Grant Program LOI Application. The deadline for letters of intent is June 9.

By June 18, organizations will be notified whether they are moving forward to a full proposal. Only invited organizations will be asked to submit a full grant proposal by July 7. Upon invitation, organizations will be provided instructions for submission. The grant year will run from Oct. 1, 2024 to Sept. 30, 2025.

The grants are one way that Orlando Health is investing back into the Central Florida region by supporting important work that enhances the community. The Orlando Health Community Grant Program awarded nearly $600,000 in its last cycle. 

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 33 hospitals and emergency departments – 26 of which are currently operational with seven coming soon. The system also includes nine 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 1,400 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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