Florida Hospital is continuing to establish Orlando as a leading medical destination by receiving accreditation for a Pediatric Residency Program.

Florida Hospital’s Healthy 100 Women’s Mobile Health Coach is bringing health services into the community to make preventative screenings more available and convenient for all women.

The Florida Hospital Milk Depot will serve as a convenient drop off location to moms who are looking to donate breast milk to help other babies, especially at-risk preemies

Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel announced that it is the Premier Partner for the Josh Freeman Youth Football Camp to be held at Wesley Chapel High School June 19 and 20th.

As part of the partnership, the hospital will provide athletic trainers for the camp.  Hospital physicians, Christopher Baker, MD, orthopedic surgeon and Jonathan Phillips, MD primary care and sports medicine physician will be at the camp to talk to parents about concussions and sports injuries. 
The hospital is holding a special Facebook contest to give away four free spots to the camp.  Like the hospitals’ Facebook page, www.facebook.com/FloridaHospitalWesleyChapel, between now and May 24th for a chance to win a spot in the camp.

“Our Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Institute serves everyone from professional athletes to kids playing sports,” Brian Adams, President & CEO of Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel.  “So this is a perfect partnership opportunity for us to serve the community.”

The hospital is also the official Orthopedic and Sports Medicine and Outpatient Rehabilitation provider of the Tampa Bay Storm.

Campers will learn from Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ quarterback Josh Freeman. they also receive a limited edition Josh Freeman football Pro camp t-shirt, exclusive camp team photo with Josh Freeman, authentic Josh Freeman autograph, and opportunity to participate in contests and win prizes.
For more information about the hospital’s Orthopedic Sports Medicine program or related services like outpatient rehabilitation and outpatient imaging, visit www.fhwesleychapel.org.

 

In celebration of National Bike and Walk to School Day on May 8th, Healthy Central Florida announced that it will be awarding up to $25,000 total in grants for innovative ideas to get the local community walking, biking and being more active.

Kangaroo Express, a convenience store operator, donated $110,000 to support the Florida Hospital Pink Army campaign

The EarlySense system offers medical professionals the ability to identify early warning signs of patient safety risk and a decline in health. Without ever physically touching the patient, the system measures heart rate, respiration rate, patient movement while in bed, and how often a patient enters and exits the hospital bed, by utilizing a sensor that is placed under the mattress of a bed.

Florida Hospital Tampa’s “go green” initiatives significantly impacts the Tampa Bay region in a positive way throughout the year. Florida Hospital Tampa and Stericycle are both committed to keeping the environment safe.

Andrew Niewald, MD, has joined the HealthCare Partners medical staff of Florida Hospital Memorial Medical Center in Daytona Beach. 

The Florida Hospital Tampa Lung Institute officially opens its doors. The new Lung Institute is dedicated to providing comprehensive care for a wide range of pulmonary conditions including lung cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) or emphysema, asthma, pulmonary hypertension, sarcoidosis and lung fibrosis.

Florida Hospital Tampa is celebrating a successful first year as the only Outpatient Therapy Center in Tampa Bay offering both Lee Silverman Voice Treatment (LSVT) for speech communication (LSVT LOUD) and physical/occupational therapy (LSVT BIG) therapy programs.

The keynote speaker at the City of Tampa's 17th Annual Women’s History Month Celebration will be Sharona B. Ross, M.D. FACS, Founder & Director, FHT Women In Surgery Initiative, Director, Minimally Invasive Surgery & Surgical Endoscopy, Florida Hospital Tampa. Dr. Ross is a highly acclaimed surgeon who is leading the effort to attract more women to surgery.

Florida Hospital’s Healthy 100 mission to inspire healthier living is motivating local restaurants to serve up healthier options. The 16 Central Florida restaurants joining forces with Florida Hospital’s Healthy 100 Approved program were unveiled for the first time in front of more than 2,000 people with the help of Food Network Star Paula Deen.

A team of leaders from Florida Hospital recently visited Colombia where they performed the first pediatric robotic surgery in Latin America on a two-year-old boy. The first-of-its-kind surgery was done at Clinica Marly in Bogata, Colombia.

Florida Hospital Fish Memorial is remodeling its catheterization lab and upgrading its equipment in order to give the lab a focus on vascular health.

Florida Hospital Performs Central Florida’s First Heart Transplant

Winter Park Memorial Hospital and partners raise awareness for Breast Cancer and Donate Funds to Benefit Women in Need

Cardiovascular disease specialists at Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute and Dr. Kiran C. Patel Research Institute, affiliated with the University of South Florida, announced today they have enrolled their first two patients into a clinical trial testing a novel gene therapy for the treatment of heart failure after ischemic injury. The therapy may promote the regeneration of heart tissue by encouraging the body to deploy more stem cells to the injury site.

Florida Hospital Tampa is teaming up with the Tampa Bay Lightning as an official sponsor and is the Proud Health and Wellness Partner for the Tampa Bay Lightning and Tampa Bay Times Forum. The formal sponsorship agreement is for three years.

The certification means the Florida Hospital Wesley Chapel stroke response staff is following the best methods to fast-track patients suspected of stroke so that doctors can begin brain-saving treatments immediately.  Research has shown that stroke patients treated at Primary Stroke Centers have better outcomes. This is the result of stroke centers using scientifically proven, evidence-based methods to guide the treatment of their stroke patients.

Florida Hospital Tampa is leading the way with the safest and most advanced surgical techniques available today. Advanced Laparoscopic and Robotic Hepatopancreaticobiliary and Foregut Surgeons, Dr. Sharona Ross and Dr. Alexander Rosemurgy have performed more than 100 LESS cholecystectomy surgeries with an epidural. LESS surgery promotes the application of epidural anesthesia, avoiding the costs and adverse effects of general anesthesia.

Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute has participated in two landmark studies that provide answers, giving researchers new information to move forward in heart stem cell therapy research. The clinical trial, called Transplantation In Myocardial Infarction Evaluation (TIME), was designed to see if heart function would improve by administering stem cells derived from the patient’s own bone marrow either three or seven days after a heart attack.

The front lawn of Winter Park City Hall was painted pink when the community gathered to hear the record breaking numbers from Pink Out Winter Park 2012.

The Florida Hospital Pepin Heart Institute, located at Florida Hospital Tampa, is the first in west and central Florida and one of only a few in the nation to treat patients with a new catheter-based procedure that uses sutures to tie off the left atrial appendage (LAA). The new minimally invasive surgical treatment called the LARIAT procedure helps prevent blood clots from occurring.