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  • Orlando Health Completes Purchase of Hospitals and Physician Practices in East Central Florida

    Festive celebrations welcome new team members to the Orlando Health family

  • Orlando Health Physician Recognized as Center of Excellence for Device Used in Prostate Cancer Treatment

    Due to the rectum’s proximity to the prostate, it can become unintentionally damaged during therapy, leading to issues with bowel function.

  • Orlando Health First in the World to Use Abbotts New Blood Test for Traumatic Brain Injuries

    Orlando, FL (Aug. 13, 2024) – Today, Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) is the first hospital in the world to use a new, groundbreaking blood test to help assess patients with suspected mild traumatic brain injuries (TBIs), or concussions. The rapid TBI blood test provides results in just 15 minutes and was developed by Abbott, in collaboration with the Department of Defense, and built upon innovative research that Orlando Health’s Dr. Linda Papa and others helped pioneer over 20 years ago.

  • Orlando Health Enters into a Stalking Horse Purchase Agreement with Steward Health Care for Three East Central Florida Operations

    Orlando, FL – (August 14, 2024) – Orlando Health today announced that it has entered into a binding asset purchase agreement to purchase from Steward Health Care (“Steward” or the “Company”), its East Central Florida operations, comprised of Rockledge Regional Medical Center, Melbourne Regional Medical Center, Sebastian River Medical Center, and Steward Medical Group Practices. Orlando Health is a private, not-for-profit healthcare organization serving the Southeastern United States and Puerto Rico. Earlier this month, the system entered into a definitive agreement to purchase majority interest in Baptist Healthcare, located in central Alabama. Steward Health Care is the country’s largest physician-led, minority-owned, integrated health care system. Orlando Health’s qualified bid has been designated as the stalking horse and, subject to the terms of the agreement, Orlando Health’s bid will be subject to higher or better qualified bids received by August 26th, 2024, at which time a bankruptcy court-approved auction may occur.

  • Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute Hospital Celebrates First Anniversary

    Orlando, FL (August 29, 2024) – The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute Hospital is celebrating its success and continued growth one year after opening its doors to patients in Central Florida and beyond. The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute Downtown Complex includes the specialty hospital, which opened August 29, 2023, and adjacent medical pavilion, which opened March 27, 2023. The facility has served more than 280,000 patients to date.

  • Orlando Health Network launched innovative care models in 2023

    Orlando, FL (January 2, 2024) Orlando Health Network launched various innovative health care models in 2023 to enhance the quality of patient care. Since its inception in 2013, the network has generated more than $165 million in savings to patients, payers, employers and taxpayers, according to the Clinically Integrated Network Value Report 2023.

  • Seven Orlando Health hospitals earn recognition from American Heart Association for providing life-saving stroke care

    Orlando, FL (July 29, 2024) Seven Orlando Health hospitals have earned recognition from the American Heart Association for their commitment to ensuring stroke patients quickly receive proper treatment according to nationally recognized, research-based guidelines.

  • Understanding and Preventing Heart Disease in Women

    Heart disease is the No. 1 killer of women, causing more deaths than all forms of cancer combined. “But the signs of heart disease in women can differ from those in men, so many women do not recognize when their heart is in danger,” says Maria Demori, MD, a cardiologist with Orlando Health Heart & Vascular Institute. Although chest pain is still the main symptom, women more often than men experience atypical symptoms such as:

  • Recognizing and Treating Autism

    “I didn’t want to hear it, I didn’t want to know. 

  • New Treatments for Lung Cancer

    Harnessing the body’s immune system to help destroy lung cancer cells is the goal of new therapies being developed at Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center. Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among both men and women, causing more deaths every year than breast, prostate, and colon cancers combined, according to the Cancer Research Institute. Cigarette smoking is responsible for nearly 80 percent of lung cancers.