ORLANDO – The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute won a Golden Brick Award for the top commercial development in downtown Orlando in 2023. The Downtown Orlando Partnership recently hosted the annual award ceremony, which recognizes major achievements in several categories like arts and culture, entertainment and special events and community.
Orlando Health opened Florida’s first orthopedic specialty hospital in August of 2023 on its downtown campus. The state-of-the-art facility features 10 operating rooms, 75 smart patient rooms, and a bioskills laboratory for research and education. The Orlando Health Jewett Orthopedic Institute medical pavilion, which opened in March of 2023, offers patients ultrafast imaging, a walk-in orthopedic clinic and large rehabilitation space. The 375,000-square-foot, seven-story institute is the first of its kind in the southeastern U.S.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.6 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of one of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care units, one of the only systems in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.
The 3,487-bed system includes 33 hospitals and emergency departments – 26 of which are currently operational with seven coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 375 outpatient facilities that include physician clinics, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. More than 4,950 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 29,000 team members and more than 1,400 physicians.
In FY 23, Orlando Health cared for 197,000 inpatients and 6.6 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided nearly $1.3 billion in total impact to the communities it serves in the form of community benefit programs and services, Medicare shortfalls, bad debt, community-building activities and capital investments in FY 22, the most recent period for which this information is available.
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