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  • Orlando Health Enters into a Stalking Horse Purchase Agreement with Steward Health Care for Three East Central Florida Operations

    Orlando, FL – (August 14, 2024) – Orlando Health today announced that it has entered into a binding asset purchase agreement to purchase from Steward Health Care (“Steward” or the “Company”), its East Central Florida operations, comprised of Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Melbourne Regional Medical Center, Sebastian River Medical Center, and Steward Medical Group Practices. Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization serving the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Earlier this month, the system entered into a definitive agreement to purchase majority interest in Baptist Healthcare, located in central Alabama. Steward Health Care is the country’s largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system. Orlando Health’s qualified bid has been designated as the stalking horse and, subject to the terms of the agreement, Orlando Health’s bid will be subject to higher or better qualified bids received by August 26th, 2024, at which time a bankruptcy court-approved auction may occur.

  • Visit Orlando partners with Orlando Health to launch health and wellness support for travel and tourism industry

    Orlando, FL (August 23, 2022) – Visit Orlando, the Official Tourism Association® for Orlando, and Orlando Health, a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization that serves the southeastern United States, have joined forces to create a unique partnership. The new alliance designates Orlando Health as the Official Health and Wellness Partner of Visit Orlando and offers health-related benefits for the millions of visitors who help make Orlando the most visited destination in the United States and Theme Park Capital of the World.

  • Shoulder Injury Threatens To Keep Athlete from Activity He Loves

    Scott Starr has been a competitive athlete for decades, playing soccer in high school and — for a short time — in a British professional league. Later, he discovered CrossFit, the popular high-intensity strength and conditioning training regimen. He loved it so much he and his wife, Marisol, opened a CrossFit gym in Eustis.

  • Frozen Shoulder Injury Threatens To Derail Grandmother’s Family Vacation

    Tonya Oxford always looks forward to her annual family vacation, and she was particularly excited this year. She and her husband, Tony, were taking their three daughters and three grandchildren to Bimini in the Bahamas.

  • Orlando Health Earns 2022 Great Place to Work Certification™

    Orlando, FL (August 24, 2022) – Orlando Health is proud to be Certified™ by Great Place to Work® for the second year in a row. The prestigious award is based entirely on what current employees say about their experience working at the organization.

  • Team of 11 Orlando Health Physicians Performs Consecutive Surgeries on Mother and Baby with Rare, Life-Threatening Heart Tumor

    Orlando, FL (November 23, 2022) – Orlando Health clinicians from seven different specialties came together to perform back-to-back surgeries on a mother and her baby who developed a life-threatening tumor in utero. Randyiah Paul came to Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies after learning that the teratoma (a type of germ cell tumor) on her unborn daughter’s heart had grown so rapidly, she wouldn’t survive unless surgeons intervened. Doctors say this is a rare type of tumor, and it is exceptionally rare for it to require fetal intervention.

  • Walk to Save Lives! Join the 2022 Greater Orlando Heart Walk

    On your mark, get set, go! The 2022 Greater Orlando Heart Walk will be taking place November 12 at UCF. Sign up now to help Orlando Health have the most registered participants in Orlando!

  • Orlando Health South Lake Hospital Recognized for Commitment to Reducing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

    Clermont, FL (June 29, 2022) – Orlando Health South Lake Hospital has received the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification Silver for implementing hospital-wide best practices and educating parents and caregivers on sleep safety to help prevent sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). A recognition conferred by Cribs for Kids, a national organization that advocates for the standardization of safe sleep practices in alignment with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) guidelines, the National Safe Sleep Hospital Certification confers recognitions at a bronze, silver and gold level.

  • Orlando Health brings families, friends, and loved ones to patients with Virtual Visitation

    ORLANDO, Fla. (April 13, 2020) --- Orlando Health hospitals are adding a new way for patients to stay connected to family, friends, and loved ones during the COVID-19 pandemic. With restricted visitation in place to ensure the health and safety of patients, visitors and care teams, the healthcare system has implemented virtual visitation with tablet devices for inpatients who don’t have their own personal communication technology.

  • Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare Hold Groundbreaking Ceremony For New Behavioral Health Hospital To Serve Greater Orlando Area

    APOPKA, Fla. (February 15, 2024) – Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare today held a ceremony to celebrate the start of construction on a previously announced 144-bed behavioral health hospital that will expand access to critical mental health services in the Orlando metro area. The event occurred on the site of the new hospital – located at 1452 S. Orange Blossom Trail in Apopka, Florida – and celebrated the joint venture partnership between Orlando Health and Acadia Healthcare.