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• Staying Active On Spring Break

  By Shaista S. Safder, MD

• Quick Tips for Keeping Kids Active

  As a parent, it’s important to encourage your children to be active by showing them what a healthy lifestyle looks like. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) recommends children get at least one hour (60 minutes) of physical activity each day. By going on bike rides together, walking around the neighborhood, coaching sports teams and even playing simple games around the house, you have the opportunity to play a vital role in keeping your kids active and healthy.

• 10 Creative Ways To Keep Kids Active

  Prying your children away from smartphones and gaming consoles to get some exercise can be a challenge. But regular physical activity is important – and easier when you make it a family affair, says Dr. Stuart Janousky, a board-certified pediatrician with Orlando Health Physician Associates.

• Orlando Health Pediatric Trauma Director Receives National Impact Award

  Orlando, FL (April 29, 2021) – Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children’s medical director of pediatric trauma, Dr. Donald Plumley, has been awarded the 2020 Children’s Miracle Network (CMN) Hospitals Impact Award. This inaugural award recognizes one clinician or team across the country that has made a significant impact on the care provided to children in their hospital.

• Orlando Health Magnet Program Director Appointed to American Organization for Nursing Leadership 2020 Board of Directors

  Orlando, FL (November 18, 2019) – The American Organization for Nursing Leadership (AONL) appointed Joy Parchment, PhD, RN, system director of the Magnet program at Orlando Health, as a member of its 2020 leadership board. The organization boasts a membership of 9,800 nurse leaders from around the country and acts as a voice for nursing leadership in healthcare.

• ER Medical Director Launches “Sun, Suds, and Stitches” Campaign to Prevent Spring Break ER Visits

  Melbourne, Fl – (March 20, 2026) – Spring break is supposed to end with memories, not medical bills. But spring break also concentrates the conditions that drive ER visits – more travel, more time around water, longer days in the sun, and more late nights that include alcohol.

• Restoring Hope for an Active Life

  For Will Whitlock, life in Central Florida always had meant enjoying the outdoors and his favorite pastimes of hunting and fishing. But over the past three years, he spent more and more of his spare time sidelined on the sofa with chronic back pain. Some days it was an ache, other days it felt like somebody was “putting a screwdriver in my back,” he says. And then there were the multiple back spasms each day.

• Top Five Benefits of Having a Primary Care Doctor

  By Wendy Bacigalupi-Bednarz, Editorial Contributor

• Orlando Health Level One Trauma Team and Orange County Office of the EMS Medical Director launched bleeding control training to help save lives following man-made or natural mass casualty events

  The two entities joined to announce their response to a national call to provide special training to first responders and civilian bystanders to help

• New Medical Director Brings Expanded Fetal Procedures to Central Florida

  Orlando, FL (June 9, 2022) – Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies is pleased to welcome Emanuel “Mike” Vlastos, MD as the newest member of the expert team at the Fetal Care Center. With more than 20 years of experience, Dr. Vlastos is a board-certified maternal-fetal medicine physician who offers advanced expertise in the diagnosis and treatment of fetal anomalies, often before the baby is born.