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• Orlando Health is the First Hospital in Florida to Perform Life-Changing In-Utero Surgery

  Orlando, FL (August 28, 2018) – Orlando Health announced today that it is the first hospital system in the state of Florida to perform in-utero surgery to repair spina bifida, a spinal defect developed by the fetus during the early stages of pregnancy. The first surgery took place on May 23, 2018 at Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies and the mother delivered her baby via C-section on July 10, 2018. To date, the team has successfully performed this operation on three patients and the first two healthy babies have been born.

• Pink Fire Trucks Turn Heads in Central Florida

  Orlando, Florida (September 29, 2017) – Orlando and Orange County firefighters will turn heads as they ride out to service calls this October in bright, pink fire engines and ambulances. 

• 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.

• Central Florida’s Most Popular Baby Names in 2012

  Winnie Palmer Hospital compiles the year’s most popular names.

• New Ocoee Cancer Center First in Central Florida to Offer MRI-Guided Radiation Therapy

  Ocoee, FL. (November 1, 2018) – The newly-opened Orlando Health UF  Health Cancer Center – Health Central Hospital is treating cancer patients with new, cutting-edge MRI-guided radiotherapy. The cancer-fighting technology is called MRIdian® and allows oncologists to see treatment areas in real-time while targeting them with precise radiation therapy. The facility is one of nine in the country to treat cancer with MRI-guided radiotherapy and only the second in Florida.

• Orlando Health Bringing New Cancer-fighting Technology to Central Florida

  Orlando, FL. (September 12, 2016) – Orlando Health will soon begin providing a new therapy that allows oncologists to see the tumor they are treating continuously during radiation therapy. It’s a cancer-fighting technology called MRIdian® that will be installed at the new comprehensive cancer center being built at Health Central Hospital in Ocoee, Florida, in partnership with UF Health Cancer Center – Orlando Health.

• ORMC Awarded Best Hospital in Central Florida for its Second Year in a Row

  Orlando Regional Medical Center Awarded Best Hospital in Central Florida – Second Year in a Row!

• ORMC Awarded Best Hospital in Central Florida

  Earlier this year, the Orlando Business Journal asked their readers to share their favorite companies and organizations throughout the Central Florida area.

• Orlando Health Cuts Ribbon on Newest Hospital in Central Florida

  WINTER GARDEN, FL (January 19, 2021) – Today Orlando Health held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its newest facility, the Orlando Health - Horizon West Hospital. Located in Winter Garden in the rapidly developing community of Horizon West, Orlando Health leaders, physicians and team members were on hand to celebrate the completion of the latest phase of the Horizon West medical campus. Horizon West Hospital will be the health system’s 10th acute care facility and the organization’s first newly constructed hospital in more than 15 years. 

• CMS: Orlando Health Is Highest-Rated Hospital in Central Florida

  U.S. News & World Report has named Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children as one of the nation’s best children’s hospitals for eight years in a row and Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) as a best regional hospital that achieved top ratings in all nine common procedures such as hip replacement and heart failure.