Surgeons Get First Look at Technological Features of Future Hospital
Orlando Health orthopedic surgeons got their first glimpse of the health system’s future orthopedic specialty hospital with an in-person tour of a mock-up of a surgery suite. Set up in a warehouse located on Orlando Health’s main campus in downtown Orlando, the model was built to scale and staged with functional medical equipment the surgical teams use daily for medical procedures. This first look gave each member of the surgery team the opportunity to examine the set-up of the suites and provide feedback prior to the construction plans of the specialty hospital being finalized.
“A key benefit of this replica is that it gives each member of the team the opportunity to get a realistic sense of the surgery suite and how the layout impacts their role,” said Mike Jablonski, MD, orthopedic physician lead with Orlando Health. “To have that collaborative effort really makes the best possible operating room that we can design and I think the fact that Orlando Health is willing to do that will benefit everybody in the end.”
Earlier this year, Jewett Orthopaedic Clinic joined with Orlando Health, combining a robust outpatient private orthopedic practice with an internationally known trauma program. The combined strength of this new partnership has been the catalyst for the creation of one of the premier destination orthopedic hospitals in the southeastern United States.
Development of this new inpatient facility dedicated solely to the care of orthopedic patients is nearing completion, with Orlando Health planning to break ground on the facility in the fall of 2020. It will be located on the southeast corner of Lucerne Terrace and Columbia Street on Orlando Health’s downtown campus.
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $6.2 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for its pediatric and adult Level One Trauma program, as home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe form 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 is a statutory teaching system that pioneers life-changing medical research. The 2,800-bed system includes 13 wholly-owned hospitals and emergency departments; rehabilitation services, cancer and heart institutes, imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, physician offices for adults and pediatrics, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with CareSpot Urgent Care. Nearly 3,600 physicians, representing more than 80 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 20,000 team members. In FY19, Orlando Health served approximately 133,000 inpatients and more than 2.5 million outpatients. During that same time period, Orlando Health provided more than $760 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com.
