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  • Orlando Health's academic chairman named Master of Critical Care Medicine

    ORLANDO, Fla. (March 3, 2016) --- The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) recently awarded Orlando Health’s Jay L. Falk, MD, the title of Master of Critical Care Medicine. This honor was presented at the SCCM 45th Critical Care Congress held in Orlando. Dr. Falk joins only 73 practitioners to receive this distinction.

  • Orlando Health’s Lake County Freestanding Emergency Departments receive 2025 Press Ganey Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award®

    Clermont, FL (Jan. 7, 2026) – Orlando Health South Lake Hospital Emergency Room – Blue Cedar and Orlando Health South Lake Hospital Joe H. and Loretta Scott Emergency Room – Four Corners have been named 2025 Human Experience Guardian of Excellence Award® winners by Press Ganey, the global leader in healthcare experience solutions and services.

  • Couple Discover Surprise Benefits of Having Weight-loss Surgeries

    Betsy and Gary Appelsies had an easy cure for a bad day: Load the dogs into the car and head to a nearby ice cream shop. A vanilla cone with rainbow sprinkles for her, a cup of chocolate ice cream with hot fudge and peanut butter cups for him, and they both felt better.

  • Central Florida Urology Associates Joins Orlando Health

    Longwood, FL (June 8, 2021) – Orlando Health is expanding its roster of urology specialists.

  • Orlando Health announces new president of Dr. P. Phillips Hospital

    Orlando, FL (March 15, 2016) – Orlando Health has named Thibaut van Marcke, senior vice president, Orlando Health and president, Dr. P. Phillips Hospital. Mr. van Marcke most recently served as vice president and chief operating officer for HCA - North Florida Regional Medical Center in Gainesville, a 432-bed tertiary care hospital. In that position, he was responsible for all hospital operations including executive oversight of surgical services, cardiovascular services, and all ancillary and support departments.

  • Orlando Health Celebrates Topping Out of Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute

    Orlando, FL (December 13, 2021) – Today Orlando Health leaders, physicians, team members, and community partners came together to celebrate a major milestone in the construction of the new orthopedic medical complex currently underway on Orlando Health’s booming downtown Orlando campus. The health system staged a traditional Topping Out ceremony to mark the end of the vertical construction phase of its newest specialty hospital, the Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute. The ceremony culminated with the final placement of an 11 ft. steel beam that had been signed by hundreds of Orlando Health team members and was sandwiched between two giant replicas of a human femur bone[i].

  • Orlando Health Breaks Ground on New Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery Institute

    Orlando, FL (Feb. 26, 2026) – On Thursday, Orlando Health broke ground in downtown Orlando on its new state-of-the-art Orlando Health Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery Institute that will serve patients throughout the southeastern United States. The two-story, 28,000-square-foot medical office building will be the new home of Orlando Health bariatric service lines including weight-loss surgery, endoscopic procedures, obesity medicine, revision and conversion procedures, robotic procedures and surgical body contouring. The Institute will dedicate space to its psychiatry and nutrition programs, including group meeting spaces and a demonstration kitchen. The Institute will also house an advanced training environment known as a Bioskills Lab. 

  • Male and female differences in concussion blood test: New research shows males have a higher elevation of a biomarker used to detect mild traumatic brain injury compared to females

    Orlando, Fla. (September 21, 2023) – New research shows male patients with mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), or concussion have a higher elevation of a biomarker used to detect the condition, compared to female patients with the injury. The study, led by researchers at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) and recently published in Nature Journal, is among the first and largest studies to compare the two biomarkers between sexes among trauma patients at the time of diagnosis and over time. The findings will help the diagnosis and treatment of patients with concussion.

  • Five Orlando Health surgeons initiated into American College of Surgeons

    Orlando, FL (December 8, 2021) – Five surgeons at Orlando Health recently became Fellows of the American College of Surgeons (FACS) during their Convocation ceremony at the College’s virtual Clinical Congress 2021. For each surgeon who was acknowledged, the FACS designation means they’ve passed a rigorous evaluation and they’re committed to providing a high standard of surgical care.  

  • Orlando Health Starts Construction of New Orthopedic Complex

    On November 17, Orlando Health leaders and physicians were on-hand to launch the official start of construction of a new orthopedic complex on