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  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute Opens New Clinic In Melbourne

    Orlando, FL (December 16, 2024) – The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute is thrilled to open a new clinic in Melbourne this week, expanding its unparalleled orthopedic and sports medicine care to the Space Coast. The practice will serve as a one-stop-shop for patients suffering from various musculoskeletal injuries or conditions.

  • Orlando Health Set to Debut New Emergency Room at Reunion Village

    Davenport, FL (April 26, 2022) – To continue to meet the growing need for emergency services driven by Central Florida’s rapidly increasing population, Orlando Health is preparing to open its newest freestanding emergency room, the Orlando Health Emergency Room – Reunion Village. The full-service emergency room will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and will be fully staffed by Board-certified emergency room physicians, registered nurses, and other clinicians. Located along the I-4 corridor at 8011 Osceola Polk Line Road in Davenport, the Orlando Health Emergency Room – Reunion Village will be the seventh freestanding emergency room Orlando Health has opened since 2018.

  • Three Orlando Health Hospitals named Best Places to Work in Healthcare in 2022

    Orlando, FL (May 26, 2022) – Three Orlando Health hospitals have recently been selected by Modern Healthcare as one of the 2022 Best Places to Work in Healthcare. The hospitals chosen by the leading healthcare publication were Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital, Orlando Health Horizon West Hospital, and Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital. This is the third, consecutive year that Orlando Health South Seminole has been named to the list.

  • Orlando Health Hospitals Excel at Patient Safety and Quality

    Orlando, FL (May 10, 2022) – Orlando Health hospitals have been recognized for their excellence in keeping patients safe and providing quality care. The Leapfrog Group, a national independent organization that’s committed to healthcare quality and patient safety has released its spring 2022 safety grades in which all Orlando Health legacy hospitals received A grades: Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center, Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital and Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, which with this current grading period, has now received its eighth consecutive A grade.

  • Orlando Health Providing Care at 2022 Special Olympics USA Games

    Orlando Health is delivering care to more than 4,000 athletes and 1,500 coaches plus 10,000 volunteers and an expected 125,000 fans at the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games.

  • Orlando Health Opens First Proton Therapy Center in Central Florida

    ORLANDO, FL. (April 4, 2016) –Central Florida has a valuable new tool in the fight against cancer. Orlando Health has officially opened The Marjorie and Leonard Williams Center for Proton Therapy, bringing state-of-the-art cancer treatment options to those battling cancer in Central Florida. The center, the first to offer proton therapy treatments in Central Florida, joins an elite group of proton therapy centers around the world. It is the third pro-ton therapy center to open in the state of Florida and only the 23rd in the nation. Currently there are 67 proton therapy centers worldwide.

  • Orlando Health Treats First Pediatric Patient using Proton Therapy

    ORLANDO, FL. (May 26, 2016) – When Zayne Burton’s parents, Lori and Chaz, heard the diagnosis that their 12-year-old son had a medullablastoma, a tumor of the brain and spine, they were in shock. Quickly, however, their focus turned to treating the curable cancer so their son could go on to live a healthy life. Their journey brought them to The Marjorie and Leonard Williams Center for Proton Therapy at UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health, which had just opened, becoming the first proton center in Central Florida to treat patients us-ing proton beams, a type of radiation therapy, to shrink tumors. Just weeks after his diagnosis and surgery to remove the tumor, Zayne, a 7th grader from Orlando, began proton therapy treatment at UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health, becoming the first pediatric patient treated in Central Florida with this revolutionary treatment option.

  • Orlando Health – Media Update 11:30 a.m.

    Orlando, FL (June 13, 2016) – This is the 11:30 a.m. update from Orlando Health.