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Lower Your Stress Level in 10 Minutes
Everyone experiences stress. Whether it’s short-term stress from getting caught in a traffic jam or long-term concerns over finances, the more stress you have, the more it can affect your health and well-being.
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Stress and Fertility
Chronic stress can disrupt the fertility cycle, from the speed and shape of sperm to the frequency of ovulation. While experts don’t fully understand how this happens, it is widely believed that high levels of stress hormones such as adrenaline and cortisol play a key role.
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Orlando Health Shares Medical Outcomes With Patients And Families Using Digital Technology Inside Hospital
How Orlando Health is taking its quality and patient care initiative to the next level.
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New Affordable Care Act tools and payment models deliver $372 million in savings, improve care
We all have a stake in improving the quality of care we receive, while spending our dollars more wisely.
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Orlando Health to install free sunscreen dispensers at Seminole parks
Bicyclists, joggers, softball players or anyone else enjoying one of a half dozen Seminole County parks soon will be able to protect themselves from sunburn or skin cancer for free.
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Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital using defibrillators with enhanced shock capability for difficult-to-defibrillate patients
Orlando, FL (April 22, 2024) Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital will begin using defibrillators with an enhanced energy shock capability that can improve the odds of reviving difficult-to-defibrillate patients who experience sudden cardiac arrest.
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Orlando Health Network launched innovative care models in 2023
Orlando, FL (January 2, 2024) Orlando Health Network launched various innovative health care models in 2023 to enhance the quality of patient care. Since its inception in 2013, the network has generated more than $165 million in savings to patients, payers, employers and taxpayers, according to the Clinically Integrated Network Value Report 2023.
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Orlando Health First in the World to Use Abbotts New Blood Test for Traumatic Brain Injuries
Orlando, FL (Aug. 13, 2024) – Today, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is the first hospital in the world to use a new, groundbreaking blood test to help assess patients with suspected mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), or concussions. The rapid TBI blood test provides results in just 15 minutes and was developed by Abbott, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, and built upon innovative research that Orlando Health’s Dr. Linda Papa and others helped pioneer over 20 years ago.
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Study Finds Clues In Your Blood Could Help Assess Traumatic Brain Injuries Within Minutes Of Impact
Orlando, FL (Sept. 4, 2024) – Groundbreaking research published on Wednesday shows that clues in your blood could help assess traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) within 30 minutes of impact, much sooner than previously known. The first-of-its-kind study, published in JAMA Network Open, marks a significant milestone that could inform how TBIs are treated in multiple areas including on the sidelines of sporting events, in military settings and in the field when ambulance crews respond to a patient before transporting them to a hospital. The study builds on decades of research by Dr. Linda Papa, lead author of the study and Director of Academic Clinical Research at Orlando Health.
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Holiday Health: Choose Wisely
For Americans, November is a month of contrasts. On one hand, we celebrate the abundance of Thanksgiving with a huge meal, and on the other, we are cautioned against the health risks of eating too much with November’s designation as National Diabetes Month.
