Fitness Centre At Celebration Health history

In 1908, the first building for Florida Hospital was purchased in Orlando by a group of Seventh Day Adventists that had a vision of bringing health and healing to the community.

Orange General Hospital, later becoming Orlando Regional Medical Center, opened the doors to its new 50-bed building on November 5, 1918.

Established in 1923, the College of Pharmacy is the oldest college in the UF Academic Health Center.

Doctor Townes R. Leigh becomes director and later Dean when the school becomes a College in 1925.

By 1945, Orange General had become the third largest private hospital in the state.

In 1946, the hospital changed its name from Orange General Hospital to Orange Memorial Hospital.

In 1948, the hospital created Florida’s second Cancer Control Clinic, where patients were seen by a six-doctor committee.

In 1951, Orange Memorial Hospital was designated one of Florida’s first teaching hospitals by the American Medical Association.

The College of Medicine, the largest of six colleges at the University of Florida Academic Health Center, opened in 1956 with a mission to increase Florida's supply of highly qualified physicians, provide advanced health-care services to Florida residents and foster discovery in health research.

In 1964, the hospital created the first “Cardiac Arrest Team,” to respond to cardiac emergencies.

In 1967, the C wing was completed, bringing the total number of beds to 800.

Ison wanted a name a name for the new health center that would be a symbolic nod to the black residents who were motivated by the dream of Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., who was assassinated in 1968.

Clinica Campesina – was opened in 1973 to serve indigent and migrant families in Homestead.

The facility was built on a 28-acre site on SW 216th Street conveniently located just east of Florida’s Turnpike, of which the Homestead Extension was completed in 1974.

In 1975, an $8.5 million expansion project added outpatient surgery facilities, a 40,000 square foot outpatient rehabilitation building, multilevel parking garage, the Central Florida Radiation Center and renovated the existing physical plant.

In 1977 the hospital would again change its name, this time to Orlando Regional Medical Center.

ORMC was designated a regional trauma center in 1981 and won approval to install a helipad on the roof.

In 1982, ORMC again restructured and established the Orlando Health Network, Inc.

In 1984 ORMC welcomed SARA, which stands for “System for Anesthetic and Respiratory Analysis.

Also in 1989, ORMC became one of only 10 United States hospitals to use the Nuclear Medicine Imaging system, which used radioactive isotopes for rapid, accurate, three-dimensional views of the body.

In May 1991, ORMC began the biggest expansion project to date.

The results of that survey in 1992 led ORMC to change the corporate name to Orlando Regional Healthcare System (ORHS). ORMC would now be the flagship medical center under the ORHS corporate umbrella.

The company continued its technological shift in 1994 by transferring clinical information to a computerized system.

Heart of Florida Health Center began in 2007 with financial support from Munroe Regional Medical Center, Ocala Regional Medical Center, the Marion County Commissioners, and Department of Health.

In 2008, the building was totally renovated and modernized by the county to provide a pleasant patient atmosphere, primarily funded by the generous donations and in-kind contributions of many local contractors and private individuals.

Enabling work for this project began in October 2011.

In March of 2014, the Tavernier Health Center opened in the Keys.

West Kendall Health Center opened in 2015.