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• Orlando Regional Medical Center Receives Atrial Fibrillation Certification

  New doors open for Orlando Regional Medical Center because of Atrial Fibrillation Certification.

• Orlando Regional Medical Center in the top one percent nationwide

  Orlando, FL (August 17, 2018) – Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) has been recognized by U. S. News & World Report as one of the highest performing hospitals nationwide in nine essential clinical areas. Out of 4,500 hospitals, ORMC is one of only 18 to be rated “high performing” for two consecutive years in two chronic conditions – chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and heart failure – and seven surgical procedures; abdominal aortic aneurysm repair, aortic valve surgery, colon cancer surgery, heart bypass surgery, hip replacement, knee replacement and lung cancer surgery.

• Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center reaches 200th stroke-prevention device implant for heart patients

  Photo credit: Janine Moore-Starling, BSN, RN, CCRN | Orlando Health Health & Vascular Institute

• Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center introduces new technology that breaks barriers in coronary artery disease

  Orlando, Fla. (August 31, 2021) – Cardiologists at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center are breaking through heart disease with new technology. The doctors are the first in Central Florida to offer shockwave technology to break up severely calcified plaque in heart arteries. The new technology for severely calcified coronary artery disease uses sonic pressure waves to break away problematic calcium so heart arteries can be safely expanded, and blood flow restored. The treatment is also a new way to use lithotripsy - an approach that has been used for decades for kidney stones. The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the technology to treat coronary arteries.

• Orlando Health Expanding Services in Seminole County with Planned Medical Office Building

  Orlando, FL (December 5, 2023) – Orlando Health continues to plan and prepare for the region’s growing healthcare needs. To support the organization’s expanding Seminole County presence, the healthcare system recently purchased property along Rinehart Road in a new mixed-use development known as Bent’s Landing.

• Boston bombing survivors meet with Pulse survivors at Orlando Regional Medical Center

  Orlando, FL (June 25, 2016) – Nearly two weeks after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub that claimed 49 lives, six of the survivors who are still being treated at Orlando Regional Medical Center, in Orlando, FL received some very special visitors, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing. Ten survivors, along with their service dogs, visited patients in their hospital rooms on Saturday. The survivors of the Boston bombing felt that meeting with survivors was a critical part of their mission to pay it forward. The visit to Orlando Health was facilitated by Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer's office.

• New Orlando Health Emergency Room and Medical Pavilion Unveiled at Osceola’s 2017 State of the County Address

  Kissimmee, FL (April 25, 2017)  – Osceola County and Tupperware Brands are working in conjunction with Orlando Health to bring a new emergency room and medical pavilion to the community, officials announced today during Osceola’s 2017 State of the County Address. The $32 million, 13-acre project will be located in Osceola County Commissioner Viviana Janer’s district on the northwest corner of Orange Avenue and Osceola Parkway; property that is part of Tupperware Brands’ Osceola Corporate Center. 

• Orlando Regional Medical Center continues advances in stroke care services, receives state designation as comprehensive stroke program

  Learn how UF Health Neurosurgery is improving stroke care services.

• 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

• Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center researchers show a blood test for traumatic brain injury performs just as well as clinical guidelines, may reduce the need for computed tomography scans

  Orlando, Fla. (March 14, 2022) --- A new study by researchers at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) found a blood test for traumatic brain injury performs just as well as the clinical guidelines emergency medicine physicians use to decide if a patient with a mild traumatic brain injury or concussion needs a computed tomography (CT) scan. The discovery of the high performance TBI biomarkers blood test may improve the detection of brain injuries on CT, while reducing the need for CT scans. The study was recently published in JAMA Network Open, an international, peer-reviewed, open access, general medical journal.