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For Linda Mason, a trip to Florida was more than a vacation, it was a place of sanctuary during a grueling battle with colon cancer. Living in Louisiana at the time, Linda was receiving weekly chemotherapy treatments and it was the support from her husband, Alan, that got her through. Whenever Linda needed a break, a trip to Florida was her escape.

The Marjorie and Leonard Williams Center for Proton Therapy at the Orlando Health Cancer Institute, in partnership with Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, recently celebrated the milestone of treating its 200th pediatric proton therapy patient.

Thanks to the generosity of donors in our community, Central Florida’s only Level One Trauma Center at Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC) will soon be expanding. Because of you, the hospital can fulfill their mission to help patients in critical need of life-saving care and clinical teams will have the full resources they need to deliver the best care possible.

At Orlando Health, our physicians believe that caring for patients is more than just a job. As a result, we often find the doctor patient relationship extends beyond one of everyday care to trusted friendship, and, in some cases, an extension of family. 

In 1960, Dr. Gilbert and Joyce Walker moved from Miami to Winter Park, Florida in search of a new location to practice pediatric medicine. At the time, Winter Park’s population was barely over 17,000.  The Walkers, who recently celebrated their 70^th wedding anniversary, remember the warm and friendly atmosphere of the city and their neighbors during that time. They still live in Winter Park, with their extended families nearby.

George L. Graziadio, Jr. has been heralded as a “feisty, risk-taking” entrepreneur, but his granddaughter, Gina Graziadio-Pashley, remembers him as a warm, loving and funny man who made his Italian family the center of his world. 

Together with Disney, Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children’s clinical and professional teams built a state-of-the-art, interactive Disney-themed environment for young patients and their families. 

Since 2007, Central Florida Spirit Halloween stores have supported Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and have raised more than one million dollars to help make hospital stays less scary for kids and their families! 

Orlando Health recently received a $20,000 grant from CVS Health to conduct opioid education for healthcare providers. This includes targeted emergency department (ED) staff, trauma staff, care management and nursing staff. The goal of the grant is to educate these providers on understanding addiction, specifically, opioid use disorder. The program will cover (1) understanding addiction, (2) why addiction takes place, and (3) inform on the types of treatments that exist for opioid use disorder, including medication-assisted treatment (MAT) and cognitive behavioral therapy.

Your 40th birthday is a big milestone, no matter how excited you are (or are not) to reach it!