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• Karen Frenier Appointed Chief Human Resources Officer

  Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital President, Karen Frenier has accepted the position of Vice President Orlando Health and Chief Human Resources

• 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.

• Orlando Health and Florida Department of Health Team Up to Develop Innovative Newborn Screening Process

  Orlando, FL (August 15, 2019) – Orlando Health has teamed up with the Florida Department of Health (FDOH) to develop a more efficient and accurate way to collect mandated health data from newborn babies. Before leaving the hospital, five drops of blood are collected from babies and sent to FDOH to screen for 54 medical disorders, including cystic fibrosis and sickle cell anemia. It is crucial that the blood samples are sent and read quickly so that physicians and parents can move forward with additional testing or treatment. If not treated in a timely manner, some of these abnormalities can be life-threatening.

• Bad posture often to blame for chronic pain and health issues, but survey finds too few Americans are concerned

  Orlando, Fla - The average American adult spends more than three and a half hours looking down at their smartphones every day. Looking down or

• National CPR and AED Awareness Week builds awareness of simple steps to improve chances of survival after cardiac arrest. Recent research shows increase in bystander CPR rate.

  Orlando, FL (June 4, 2019) – Two steps and one button can turn a deadly statistic into a stronger chance of survival after cardiac arrest. Calling 9-1-1, administering early CPR - cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and rapid defibrillation (with an AED – automated external defibrillator) are key steps to improve chances of survival and recovery after cardiac arrest. 

• Orlando Health Joins the HHS Perinatal Improvement Collaborative to Improve Outcomes for Mothers and Babies Across the Nation

  Orlando, FL (November 8, 2021) -- Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies and Bayfront Health St. Petersburg are participating in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Perinatal Improvement Collaborative, a large-scale, data-driven collaborative of over 200 leading hospitals caring for diverse populations in all 50 states. The collaborative is overseen by the HHS Office on Women’s Health (OWH), using real-time data, analytics and performance improvement methodologies from Premier Inc. 

• Orlando Health expands free education benefit for team members

  Orlando, FL (November 10, 2021) – Orlando Health’s popular employee benefit, the Preferred Education Program, has expanded. Effective November 10, Orlando Health and Bayfront Health St. Petersburg team members will be able to pursue an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or certificate at Lake Sumter State College or St. Petersburg College, without incurring any out-of-pocket costs.

• Orlando Health Partners with Seminole State College to Expand Preferred Education Program

  Orlando, FL (August 18, 2021) – Orlando Health is launching a new partnership with Seminole State College of Florida to expand its Preferred Education Program (PEP) and create more opportunities for Orlando Health team members to pursue an associate degree, bachelor’s degree, or technical certificate.

• Orlando Health Orthopedic Surgeon Named Chief Medical Officer for 2022 Special Olympics USA Games

  Orlando, FL (June 7, 2021) – Thousands of athletes will be in Orlando for the 2022 Special Olympics USA Games and preparations are underway to ensure they have the medical care they need to perform their best.

• 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].