LAKE NONA NEWS:

 

The UCF College of Medicine is scheduled to welcome it's first Students in the fall of 2009. 

• Why is Orlando a Preferred Location?

Orlando has the strongest overall economy in the state.

Orlando has the best job opportunities in the state.

Orlando has the highest population growth rates in the nation for 2000-2009.

Orlando is home to two of the largest medical systems in the country.

Orlando is the largest metropolitan area in the U.S. without a medical school.

• Where will the medical college/campus open?

The UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona, which will include the College of Medicine and other health sciences, will be built in the Lake Nona community in south Orlando just east of the Orlando International Airport. The site  is just south of State Road 417 at a new interchange between Boggy Creek and Narcoosee roads. See map.

• What else will be located with the medical college?

The UCF Health Sciences Campus at Lake Nona will initially include the College of Medicine, the Burnett College Biomedical Sciences and the medical library. Other UCF health science programs (e.g., Nursing and Allied Health Professions) may move from the Orlando campus to the Lake Nona campus in later phases.

~Please read more at http://www.med.ucf.edu

 

 

VA Narrows List for Future Orlando Medical Center in Lake Nona

The U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that will bring a Veterans Administration hospital to Lake Nona.

The legislation, H.R. 5815, the Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility Authorization, authorizes $377.77 million for the facility.

Rep. Tom Feeney called the passage of the legislation "a victory for veterans and our community."

"Orlando is the largest metropolitan area in the country that is not serviced by a VA medical center," Feeney says. "This new facility will provide veterans with a better quality of life and cut down on the cost to service organizations. Our growing veterans population may finally have appropriate access to vital health care services."

Published September 13, 2006 by the Orlando Business Journal

 

 

Nemours welcomes "cautious" support

 

A Nemours children's hospital in Orlando now has the written support of Central Florida's two most powerful government leaders as well as the project's most vocal opponent -- though with a couple of strings attached: The hospital must avoid duplicating pediatric services already available at Orlando's two existing children's hospitals. And it must be built at Lake Nona as part of a planned biomedical complex there.

Orange County Mayor Rich Crotty and Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer pledged their support Monday for "a Nemours Children's Hospital at Lake Nona" in a letter to Nemours administrator Jeff Green.

The board of Orlando Regional Healthcare, which operates Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, made a similar pledge in a Friday letter to Nemours that was disclosed Monday.

While Nemours has pledged to collaborate, rather than compete with, Arnold Palmer Hospital and Florida Hospital's Florida Children's Hospital, it has also warned that some duplication of services is unavoidable.

A decision on whether to build the hospital at Lake Nona, in the city's southeast corner, or on land Nemours has already purchased near the Mall at Millenia in southwest Orlando is still probably two or three months away, Green said Monday.

Read more at http://www.nemours.org/