Our Training Facilities and Units
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a private not-for-profit, integrated academic healthcare system with $10.5 billion of assets under management, that serves the southeastern United States 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 $1.3 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 22, 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 (formerly Twitter.)
Clinical Training – Critical Care Medicine Fellowship
Our curriculum is designed to train intensivists skilled in the management of critically ill patients. We understand care of the critically ill takes a multidisciplinary approach, as such it is important that our fellows are also effective communicators and leaders in the intensive care unit. We also believe in the importance of scholarly activity and quality improvement.
Clinical Rotations
Orlando Health ORMC – Multisystem ICU
Multisystem ICU at Orlando Health ORMC is a 20-bed unit that cares mostly care for medical patients however this unit is equipped to care for surgical patients and those with neurological diseases. Fellows are responsible for the care of all patients admitted to this unit. The team includes an attending physician, fellow, residents, pharmacist, medical students, nurses, respiratory therapist, and dietician.
Orlando Health ORMC – Coronary Care Unit
The CCU at Orlando Health ORMC is a 12-bed unit caring for patients post-MI, cardiogenic shock, cardiac arrest, and other cardiovascular diseases. Patients with ARDS and other medical diseases are commonly on this service as well. This is the second teaching service which has an attending physician, residents, pharmacists, nurses, medical students, respiratory therapists, and dieticians.
Orlando Health ORMC - Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit/Mechanical Circulatory Support
The CVICU cares for advanced heart failure patients, post operative cardiac surgery patients and patients on mechanical circulatory support. Fellows work directly with a cardiac intensivists managing patients that are post cardiac surgery and who are being supported by various mechanical circulatory support devices which include balloon pumps, Impella devices, ECMO, RVADs and LVADs.
Orlando Health ORMC – Neuro-intensive Care Unit
The Neuro-ICU at Orlando Health ORMC is a 16-bed unit managing patients with ischemic strokes, subarachnoid hemorrhage, intracerebral hemorrhage, status epilepticus, traumatic brain injuries, and postoperative neurosurgery patients. Fellows work with our neurointensivists, advance practice practitioners, pharmacist, nurses, and respiratory therapists.
Orlando Health ORMC – Trauma ICU
The Trauma/Burn ICU is a 16-bed unit that cares for admitted patients with various injuries from gunshot wounds, car accidents and burns. Orlando Health ORMC is Central Florida’s only Level One Trauma Center and is one of five burn centers in the state of Florida. The multidisciplinary team is comprised of the surgical critical care attending, fellows, residents, pharmacist, nurses, dieticians, and respiratory therapist.
Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital - Women’s Intensive Care Unit
The Women’s ICU is a 5-bed ICU that cares for critically ill patients with antepartum, postpartum and postoperative compilations. Management of these patients occurs in conjunction with OBGYN, maternal fetal medicine, and gynecology and oncology.
