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  • Orlando Health Announces Plans for Regional Neuroscience Institute

    Orlando, FL (July 6, 2022) – Orlando Health has announced plans to build a state-of-the-art neurosciences institute that will serve patients throughout the southeastern United States. The three-story, 45,000-square-foot medical office building will be the new home of Orlando Health neuroscience service lines including neurosurgery, neurology, neurodiagnostics, interventional pain, and the Orlando Health Neuroscience Institute Spine Care Center. 

  • Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital names new Chief Quality Officer

    Orlando, FL (July 12, 2022) – Amit Bansal, MD MBA has joined Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital as chief quality officer (CQO) and assistant vice president, Orlando Health. In his role as CQO, Dr. Bansal collaborates with leadership and medical staff to support activities, processes, and policies resulting in high quality patient care driven by system-wide clinical practices and standards.

  • Hospital Care at Home

    Orlando, FL (November 7, 2022) Orlando Health has received approval from the state Agency for Health Care Administration to provide acute hospital-level care in adult patients’ homes.

  • After Knee Replacement Surgery, 74-Year-Old Says ‘I Feel Young Again’

    “You look so young!” friends exclaimed to Helen Pennacchio after her knee replacement surgery.

  • 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.

  • Drive for Men's Health 2016 Reaches Millions Worldwide

    Orlando, Florida (July 1, 2016) - For men’s health experts Dr. Jamin Brahmbhatt and Dr. Sijo Parekattil it was a June to remember. For the 3rd year in a row, in honor of Men’s Health month, their Drive for Men’s Health tour travelled the country, covering 6,000 miles from Orlando to Los Angeles in 10 days and reaching hundreds of millions around the world with a simple message - men drop your excuses and take your health seriously.

  • July 12 Event - Transfer of 49 Pulse Tribute Crosses from Orlando Health to History Center

    Monday, July 11, 2016 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

  • Orlando Pride Players Surprise Pediatric Cancer Patient

    ORLANDO, FL. (July 11, 2016) – It was special day at Orlando Health as a pediatric cancer patient got a surprise visit from some of his soccer idols. Orlando Pride soccer players Aubrey Bledsoe (goalkeeper), Christina Burkenroad (forward), Jamia Fields (forward) and Dani Weatherholt (mid-fielder) dropped in at UF Health Cancer Center - Orlando Health to surprise 12-year old Zayne Burton who was completing his final round of proton therapy treatment. Zayne, who was diagnosed with a brain tumor earlier this year, made history when he became the first pediatric patient to undergo proton therapy treatment here in Central Florida at the Center for Proton Therapy at Orlando Health. The players brought Zayne a signed Alex Morgan jersey and then helped him with the ceremonial ringing of the bell to celebrate completing his proton treatment.

  • Special program for pulmonary hypertension receives national recognition

    ORLANDO, Fla. (January 14, 2016) --- The Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute’s Pulmonary Hypertension Program recently received accreditation as a Comprehensive Care Center from the Pulmonary Hypertension Association (PHA)’s accreditation program for Pulmonary Hypertension Care Centers. The institute’s program is second in the state and among the first 30 hospitals in nation to receive this accolade.