Healthcare

Healthcare in the region is comprehensive, with internationally recognized programs in cardiology, cancer, women’s medicine, neurology, diabetes, orthopedics and rehabilitation. According to the American Hospital Association, two of the nation’s largest healthcare systems, highlighted below, are headquartered in the region.  The region is also building one of only two new medical cities in the world.

Florida Hospital
Florida Hospital is an acute-care healthcare system with more than 2,800 beds in a comprehensive network of 17 hospitals and 15 Centra Care walk-in urgent care centers. Owned and operated by Adventist Health System, Florida Hospital is the second busiest system in the country and treats more than one million patients each year.

Orlando Health
Orlando Health is a 1,780-bed, private, not-for-profit healthcare network. Established in 1918 on the heels of World War I, and in the midst of the Spanish Flu epidemic that raged across the world, the system today cares for more than two million local patients and 4,500 international patients each year.

Orlando Health’s locations in Metro Orlando include Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies and the world-class M. D. Anderson Cancer Center Orlando. The system is also home to Metro Orlando’s only Level I Trauma Center, which serves a 22-county region and is equipped to handle the most serious emergencies, and the region's only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, designed to treat infants with serious conditions. ORH established the Arnold Palmer Hospital Children's Heart Institute, bringing leading pediatric cardiology sub-specialists together to repair heart defects in the smallest patients. Fortune magazine has recognized Orlando Health as one of the Top 100 Companies to Work for in America.

• Teaching hospital with seven residency programs
• Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Women ranked “Top 5” in U.S.
• M.D. Anderson Cancer Center ranked “Top 2” in U.S.

Orlando VA Medical Center
Scheduled to open in 2012 in Orlando’s ‘medical city’ at Lake Nona, the Orlando VA Medical Center will be a 134-bed hospital that will bring the latest research and state-of-the-art medicine to 400,000 Central Florida veterans. This facility, the first VA hospital built in the United States since 1995, will pioneer cutting-edge technology in prosthetic limbs and bionic technologies for arms, legs, and eyes. The Center will also specialize in brain injury treatment, post traumatic stress disorder research and treatments in suicide prevention.

In addition, the Center will be the nationwide training and planning home for the VA’s new medical simulation system – Simulated Learning Enhancement and Advanced Research Network (SimLEARN).  A 35,000-square-foot facility, to be called the SimLEARN National Center, will bring physicians and other medical professionals from throughout the country to train in the latest medical simulation technology, including surgical robotics.

Nemours Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Health Campus
Nemours Children’s Hospital and Pediatric Health Campus is also under construction in Orlando’s fast-emerging ‘medical city’ at Lake Nona. The 620,000-square-foot facility will include 95 beds, an 18-bay emergency department, a neonatal intensive care unit and departments specializing in complex childhood diseases. Scheduled to open in 2012, the hospital will be the central hub of a 60-acre pediatric health campus featuring a children’s clinic, emergency department, diagnostic and ambulatory programs, education centers and research programs.  The Nemours Children’s Hospital is expected to pump $400 million into the Central Florida economy and eventually create 2,600 new jobs.