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Orlando Health Launches New Resources to Get Orlando Business Ready
Orlando, FL (May 1, 2020) – In an effort to help the community prepare to reopen, Orlando Health has launched a Business Ready resource website for businesses and organizations as they prepare to resume business.
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Orlando Health hospitals add additional safety measures for patients undergoing procedures or giving birth
Orlando, FL (April 30, 2020) – As the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 continues to decline across the Orlando Health network, and officials begin easing elective surgery restrictions, the organization is encouraging patients in need of care for non-coronavirus related conditions to seek treatment.
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Orlando Health announces new name for cardiovascular services – Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute
ORLANDO, Fla. (October 1, 2020) --- Orlando Health cardiovascular services have a new name - Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute (from Orlando Health Heart Institute). The new name reflects the multidisciplinary team of cardiologists, heart surgeons, vascular surgeons and cardiovascular professionals, and the comprehensive care provided to patients throughout the state. The renaming is effective October 1, 2020.
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Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center Announces New Medical Chief Quality Officer
ORLANDO, Fla. (August 31, 2020) --- Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) recently named Chris Hunter, MD, PhD, assistant vice president and chief quality officer of Medicine. In his new role, Dr. Hunter will work with leadership and medical staff to develop and implement organizational quality initiatives to achieve desired metrics and patient safety outcomes. Dr. Hunter will support activities, processes, and policies to continue high quality patient care, driven by system-wide clinical practices and standards. He will also support the development and adoption of organizational strategies to enhance the culture of quality and safety.
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Four Orlando Health Hospitals Recognized by American Heart Association for Stroke Care
Orlando, FL (September 21, 2020) – Orlando Health South Lake Hospital, Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital, Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital and Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center have received the American Heart Association’s Get with the Guidelines®-Stroke Gold Plus Quality Achievement Award for providing quality stroke care.
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Orlando Health infuses first Covid-19 patient with convalescent plasma
Orlando, FL (April 10, 2020) – Doctors at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center infused their first COVID-19 patient with convalescent plasma Wednesday, April 8. Fifty-two-year-old Michael “Kevin” Rathel received the investigational therapy around midnight; a mere 12 hours after compatible blood was donated.
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Orlando Health Laboratory expertise, experience, and dedication led to development of COVID-19 test for in-house use.
ORLANDO, Fla. (April 28, 2020) --- A small team from the Orlando Health Department of Pathology with unique skill sets, expertise, experience, and dedication came together for something big – the development of a COVID-19 lab test that could be used in-house to collect swabs/specimens and produce timely, accurate results. With the in-house lab test, results are available within 24 hours. Timely results are especially important at a time when labs across the country are receiving countless samples from hospitals, and patients are anxiously awaiting results that may unfortunately take several days.
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Veterans Share their Talent at Bayfront Health St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, FL (November 11, 2020) – Bayfront Health St. Petersburg employs dozens of veterans, team members who earned their status as “Frontline Heroes” years before combating COVID-19.
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Orlando Health Creates Socially Smart Guides as Florida Reopens
Orlando, FL (May 29, 2020) – Orlando Health has created a community resource to help individuals and families stay safe while easing back into dining out, going to the beach, and visiting parents and friends as Central Florida reopens.
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Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital using a portable AI-powered EEG device to detect non-convulsive seizures
Orlando, FL (April 1, 2024) Orlando Health St. Cloud Hospital will begin using a portable artificial intelligence-powered electroencephalogram (EEG) device at patient’s bedsides to quickly detect non-convulsive seizures.
