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  • Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center Announces New Chief Quality Officer

    Orlando, Fla. (September 6, 2022) – Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) recently named Dr. Satyanarayana Mukkera, as chief quality officer. An experienced critical care intensivist, Dr. Mukkera will bring exceptional leadership skills and a passion for excellence in patient care to continue outstanding results in patient quality and safety at Orlando Health ORMC.

  • Study evaluates college football players’ positions for risk of concussions

    Orlando, Fla. (September 22, 2022) — A new research study looks inside the brains of college football athletes to measure levels of traumatic brain injury (TBI) biomarkers by player position. This study, conducted in collaboration with researchers at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) and Penn State University, and published in the Journal of Neurotrauma, sheds light on which positions are at the greatest risk for elevations in brain injury biomarkers. The biomarkers are proteins and other substances released from the brain after it has been damaged.

  • Survey Finds Alarming Number of Young Women Have No Plans of Getting Mammograms

    Orlando, Fla - About 42,000 women die of breast cancer each year, and while strides are being made in medical treatments, the best tool for preventing cancer deaths continues to be screening and early detection. But a new national survey commissioned by Orlando Health finds far too many women are skipping lifesaving mammograms and many young women have no plans to get screened at all.

  • Lakeview Surgery Center opens in Dr. Phillips

    Orlando, FL (April 11, 2022) – As part of its commitment to offer patients access to high-quality healthcare closer to home, the physicians at the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute Gastroenterology – Dr. Phillips now have a new ambulatory surgery center where they provide general gastroenterology outpatient procedures. The Lakeview Surgery Center, an affiliate of Orlando Health, recently opened in the busy Southwest Orlando corridor on the Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital campus.

  • Orlando Health Expands Care for Women in Winter Park With Addition of New Physician

    Orlando, FL (April 7, 2022) -- Orlando Health Physician Associates is pleased to introduce its newest women's health provider, Jessica Auffant, MD. A board-certified OB-GYN, Dr. Auffant has been caring for women in Central Florida for over 14 years, but officially begins her tenure at the Orlando Health Women's Pavilion - Winter Park this week.

  • Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center uses new technology to train surgeons virtually

    Orlando, Fla. (April 22, 2022) – Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center is on the cutting edge of virtual training for surgeons in robotic-assisted surgery techniques. Orlando Health ORMC uses the Intuitive Telepresence Platform to train and mentor surgeons and surgical teams throughout the state, across the country, and around the world.

  • Philip Koovakada named new president of Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital

    Ocoee, FL (April 13, 2022) – Orlando Health has named Philip Koovakada as the new senior vice president, Orlando Health southcentral region, and president, Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital. He will serve as the senior leader of Orlando Health – Health Central, as well as coordinate the region’s operations with Orlando Health’s senior executive team.

  • Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute to establish liver center, begin groundwork for solid organ transplant program

    Orlando, Fla. (April 13, 2022) --- Arvind Murali, MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery) has joined the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute, the highly specialized gastrointestinal diagnostic and treatment center designed and developed to serve patients from across the southeastern United States. Dr. Murali, who is board certified in gastroenterology and hepatology will establish the Orlando Health Digestive Health Institute Liver Center — a liver care specialty area and begin the groundwork for establishing an abdominal solid organ transplant program for the health system.

  • Orlando Health Announces Plans to Establish New Freestanding Rehabilitation Institute

    Ocoee, FL (April 6, 2022) – To best meet the current demand and anticipated need for rehabilitative care in Central Florida and beyond, Orlando Health is announcing plans to develop a freestanding rehabilitation facility in West Orange County. The building will open as a 54-bed inpatient facility distinctively designed to provide high quality post-acute care for patients requiring medical and rehabilitative services. The current CARF-accredited inpatient rehabilitation program at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center will relocate to this new site, the first freestanding comprehensive medical rehabilitation facility in Orange County. CARF is the acronym for the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities.

  • Orlando Health Donates Medical Supplies to Ukraine

    Orlando, FL (April 20, 2022) – Orlando Health has donated 20 pallets of medical supplies, valued at nearly $80,000, to be used in war-torn Ukraine. Included in the shipment of more than 4,500 individual items are materials to address numerous medical needs including orthopedic and other wounds; supplies to assist in surgeries and emergency situations; even pediatric materials to care for children and obstetric supplies to assist women and infants. Donated items include: