Cardiologists at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children performed Florida’s first pediatric implant of a subcutaneous defibrillator, which protects patients from sudden cardiac arrest. It is the world’s first device to provide protection from sudden cardiac arrest while not touching the heart or blood vessels.
Orlando Health is teaming up with PetSmart to help fund the hospital system’s pet therapy program, ensuring thousands of patients access to these canine comfort teams. PetSmart Paws for Hope at Orlando Health will kick off today at Orlando Health’s seven hospitals throughout Central Florida. Funding from PetSmart will sponsor the 36 pet therapy teams currently in operation at Orlando Health.
Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies is opening the doors to an expansion of its neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). The expansion, which adds 30 beds to the hospital’s existing 112-bed NICU, will make it the largest NICU in the world under one roof.
Robotic-assisted technology is designed to add precision and accuracy, with less radiation exposure, during angioplasty — as interventional cardiologists place balloons and stents inside arteries to restore blood flow to the heart.
Orlando Health Heart Institute offers innovative technology to remove potentially deadly, large clots.
Physician Associates, a part of Orlando Health, has been awarded recognition by the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) as a Level-3 Patient Centered Medical Home.
Orlando Health and University of Florida Health have announced they have joined forces to establish one of the state’s largest, most comprehensive cancer programs. The UF Health Cancer Center at Orlando Health will expand care and treatment options for patients throughout the region, at a time when statistics show the number of cancer cases in Florida is rising.
For patients at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, a new defibrillator is like the standby ambulance and medical team they need when their hearts abruptly stop. Treatment within minutes is the critical difference between life and death. Orlando Health Heart Institute is the first in Florida to offer the advanced technology designed for patients unable to receive a traditional defibrillator. Pavel Guguchev, MD, and Roland Filart, MD, implanted the first device in the state on December 3.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando has received a prestigious national accreditation for its treatment of breast disease. The Breast Care Center has been granted a three-year/full accreditation designation by the National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers (NAPBC), a program administered by the American College of Surgeons.
As a Comprehensive Stroke Center, Orlando Regional Medical Center provides more immediate access to advanced stroke interventions to treat the nation's fourth leading cause of death.
Over a period of three years, the CAC, which is part of the Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families, will receive $992,255 from the Office on Violence Against Women (OVW) for the development of prevention, education, advocacy, and treatment services. The grant focuses on child victims of sexual assault ages 3 years to 17 years and their non-offending caregivers.
JetBlue Airways, Golf Channel, and Arnold Palmer’s Bay Hill Club & Lodge have teamed up to raise $1 million over the next five years to help save the lives of Central Florida’s tiniest babies.
Arnold Palmer Medical Center, which comprises Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, has achieved Magnet® designation, the “gold standard” for nursing’s contribution to quality patient care, safety, research, and service excellence.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is participating in a clinical trial to evaluate a new oral medication (BKM120) in combination with Fulvestrant to treat locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer that is hormone receptor positive and HER2 Neu negative and that has progressed on an aromatase inhibitor. BKM120 belongs to a new class of drugs called PI3K inhibitors, which in combination with traditional treatments may be able to slow or stop cancer growth.
MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando is participating in a clinical trial that could shorten that treatment by a third, making it easier and more convenient for patients to get treated successfully for their cancer.
Internationally recognized program brings advanced surgical options to Central Florida.
Orlando Regional Medical Center launches pilot to evaluate effectiveness of home visits, virtual visits, and telemonitoring to provide hospital-level care at patients’ homes.
Winnie Palmer Hospital saw 50 Percent fewer late pre-term babies admitted into the NICU after a reduction in early elective deliveries. Added benefits were seen in reduced healthcare costs and morbidities.
MD Anderson - Orlando, known for inspiring hope through extraordinary care in Central Florida has now received a prestigious national certification from the Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI®) Certification Program, an affiliate of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
PGA Tour golfers Brian Davis, Brian Gay, and D.A. Points are joining forces to form Team APH in honor of Arnold Palmer and the legacy he has built through Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies.
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