cbr_2017_community-report_p9[1]

LET TER FROM DAVID STRONG | PRESIDENT AND CEO | ORL ANDO HEALTH

Dedicated

In this 2016 Community Benefit Report, you’ll
learn about community outreach programs
that are transforming the health and safety of
our citizens.

Our Community Grant Program invests received numerous community awards for our
in the community by funding initiatives, medical care coordination during this crisis.
such as a campaign for safer car seats and Making a positive difference in your life and
a farmers market that fills a void in a “food the life of our community is a driving force
desert” that lacks a grocery store and access behind Orlando Health. We are committed to
to fresh produce. We’ve also supported a providing you with the kind of care we all want
program at the University of Central Florida to receive — care that’s aimed at improving
to help children with delayed or hindered your health by blending advanced technologies
mobility gain independence of movement with kindness, compassion and respect.
with customized, motorized toy cars.
We pay special tribute in this report to the Sincerely,
hundreds of Orlando Health team members
who demonstrated extraordinary poise David Strong
and courage as our community faced the President and CEO
unthinkable, tragic event of the Pulse nightclub Orlando Health
shooting on June 12, 2016. Orlando Health

ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 1

ABOUT $2.8 BILLION The organization includes an extensive COMMUNITY
network of physicians representing BENEFIT FINANCIALS
Orlando not-for-profit healthcare organization more than 40 specialties and primary
Health* and community-based network of care; eight wholly-owned or affiliate Based on: A Guide for Planning & Reporting
physician practices, hospitals and hospitals; a skilled nursing and Community Benefit, Catholic Health Association
outpatient care centers throughout rehabilitation center; and multiple (CHA) of the United States, 2008 edition.
Central Florida. outpatient care centers offering urgent
care, same-day surgery, and laboratory, $69,382,950
imaging and rehabilitation services.
CHARITY CARE
8 A statutory teaching hospital system, Orlando Health is proud to offer the 252 MEDICAL RESIDENTS Charity care is the total cost of services
region’s only Level One Trauma Center; the area’s first heart program; incurred by Orlando Health to provide
HOSPITALS specialty hospitals dedicated to children, women and babies; a major medical services to those patients who have
cancer center; and long-standing community hospitals. demonstrated their inability to pay. Charity
care does not include bad debt.
1 Orlando Health Orlando Regional Medical Center
+
2 Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children $68,846,680

3 Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies COMMUNITY BENEFIT
PROGRAMS AND SERVICES
4 Orlando Health UF Health Cancer Center
+
5 Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital $114,774,672

6 Orlando Health – Health Central Hospital MEDICAID AND OTHER
MEANS-TESTED
7 Orlando Health South Seminole Hospital PROGRAMS SHORTFALLS**

8 Orlando Health South Lake Hospital TOTAL COMMUNITY BENEFIT

AREAS OF EXPERTISE 19 7 $253,004,302

FELLOWSHIP RESIDENCY +
PROGRAMS PROGRAMS $18,192,849

HEART AND CANCER NEUROSCIENCES PEDIATRIC NEONATOLOGY 3 MILLIONPROVIDINGACCESSTONEARLY MEDICARE SHORTFALLS**
VASCULAR CARE AND SURGERY ORTHOPEDICS AND WOMEN’S
SPORTS MEDICINE +
HEALTH $165,451,421

ONE OF CENTRAL 15,709 BABIES CENTRAL FLORIDA RESIDENTS BAD DEBT
FLORIDA’S LARGEST BORN Bad debt is the total cost of services incurred
EMPLOYERS MORE THAN EMERGENCY by Orlando Health for services provided to
111,197 PATIENT ADMISSIONS VISITS patients who have not paid their bills and
18,518 TEAM MEMBERS INCLUDING NEWBORNS 798,714 who have not demonstrated their inability
368,063 to pay.
OUTPATIENT VISITS
+
2,847 157 2,319 BEDS $484,157

PHYSICIANS FACULTY MEMBERS 3,807 TRAUMA COMMUNITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES
CASES Community-building activities include
programs that address the root causes
* Fiscal Year 2016 of health problems, such as poverty,
2 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT homelessness and environmental problems.
Costs of these activities include cash, in-kind
donations and budgeted expenditures for
the development of a variety of community-
building programs and partnerships above
reimbursement.

TOTAL VALUE TO THE COMMUNITY

$437,132,729

**Medicare, Medicaid, and other means-tested
programs pay Orlando Health less than it costs
the organization to provide care to its Medicare,
Medicaid and other means-tested programs
patients. The amounts shown are the actual costs
to provide these services above reimbursement.

ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 3

LEFT TO RIGHT LEFT TO RIGHT
Thomas Smith, MD, Emergency Holly Stuart, Director of Patient
Medicine Resident; Carlos Experience; Jamie Moscovitz,
Alvarez, UV Environmental OR (RN First Assistant); Chadwick
Tech; Maricelis Pagan, Medical Smith, MD, FACS, Surgical Critical
Technologist, Sr; Susan Ono, Care Program Director, ORMC;
Trauma Program Manager; Liam Barton, Physical Therapist
Ben Wilkinson, Security Officer

Making Every ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 5
Second Count

Orlando Health’s lifesaving care during America’s
deadliest mass shooting

In the early morning hours of Sunday, June 12, 2016, team members
in Orlando Regional Medical Center’s Emergency Room and Level
One Trauma Center were having a quiet night and discussing who
might go home early. Within minutes, their world changed. At 2:04
am, the first shooting victim arrived, brought in from the nearby
Pulse nightclub with reports of dozens more to come.

4 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT

PREPARED FOR THE COMMUNITY

LEFT TO RIGHT Alerted to what would become the deadliest mass shooting in
Lourdes Miller, Blood Bank, modern U.S. history, the Emergency Room (ER) staff called in 20
Supv, Lab Section; Amy DeYoung, additional team members to help manage the crisis. Surgery ramped
Administrator for Allied Health up from two available operating rooms (ORs) to six, fully staffed
Support Services and the Orlando ORs. Chadwick Smith, MD, the trauma surgeon on call, rapidly
Health Rehabilitation Institute; assembled a team of six additional trauma surgeons, along with
Chris Ponder, MD, Emergency
Medicine Resident; Eric Alberts, vascular and orthopedic surgeons and anesthesiologists.
Corporate Manager, Emergency
Preparedness; Katie Strauss, Thirty-six patients arrived in 36 minutes, by proved to be inaccurate, but in the initial hours of
Radiology Tech ambulance and police vehicles, and even a pick-up the crisis, hospital staff remained focused on their
truck owned by an officer. As the only Level One patients’ well-being at the risk of their own personal
6 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT Trauma Center in Central Florida, ORMC has a safety.
team ready to provide rapid diagnosis and immediate Throughout the crisis, other team members also
treatment for life-threatening injuries 24/7. The stepped up to perform critical tasks: Environmental
sheer volume of trauma on this night put the team to Services personnel cleaned and disinfected exam
the ultimate test. rooms rapidly, wiping away considerable amounts of
blood. The organization’s leaders, including David
Total Team Effort Strong, president and CEO, coordinated distribution
The hospital’s security team and all available hands of supplies.
transferred incoming gunshot-wound victims to In less than 12 hours, 75 surgeries were performed
gurneys, swiftly filling all available exam rooms. and 550 units of blood given to sustain life. Of the
Additional victims waited in the hallways or in beds 44 people who came through ORMC’s doors on that
near the nursing station. Dr. Smith quickly evaluated tragic night, 35 were saved. While the staff continues
each of the 44 people brought from the nightclub. to mourn those nine whose wounds proved fatal, they
ER doctors, residents, other physicians and are grateful for the coordinated, rapid response of
nurses applied tourniquets, bandaged wounds and their trauma center that empowered the team to save
sent patients with the most urgent, life-threatening so many others.
injuries to surgery. Guest Services personnel stepped Equally gratifying was the team’s ability to
out of their normal roles as goodwill ambassadors to provide medical care for the 450 patients already
put pressure on bleeding wounds. hospitalized when the tragedy occurred. As of
Surgical teams operated tirelessly to repair organs, 10:00 am Sunday morning, the ER and Level One
remove injured bowels, sew up torn arteries and Trauma Center were re-stocked. Thirteen unrelated
blood vessels, and massage hearts that had stopped surgeries were performed over the course of the day,
beating. This team response, expert emergency care appropriate patients went home, and hundreds of
and coordination between departments exemplified patients continued to receive quality care.
on a large scale the care the ORMC Level One
Trauma Center is equipped to provide at every hour Preparation Key to Coordinated Response
of the day. More than 400 team members pitched in during
As the medical team worked without pause in the the initial hours following the Pulse shooting.
ER and operating rooms, they endured the additional Environmental Services, Chaplains, Guest Services,
stress of an active-shooter alert, issued to indicate a Laboratory, Surgery, Supply Chain, Blood Bank,
shooter might be within the hospital. The alert later Security, External Affairs & Community Relations,

550 UNITSOFBLOOD 8 OPERATING ROOMS
USED FOR PULSE RUNNING SIMULTANEOUSLY
PATIENTS. AVERAGE FOR PULSE VICTIMS
USE FOR ONE DAY IS THROUGHOUT THE DAY.
35 UNITS.

ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 7

PREPARED FOR THE COMMUNITY

LEFT TO RIGHT Respiratory Therapy and family members gathered
Mark Jones, Senior Vice President,
Orlando Health and President of Patient Transport all assumed at the hospital during
ORMC; Michael L. Cheatham, MD,
FACS, FCCM, Chief Surgical Quality vital roles, alongside doctors the night and into the
Officer, ORMC; Carlos Carrasco,
Chief Operating Officer, ORMC and nurses. morning. The hospital had

8 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT What might have devolved become the community’s

into chaos on the night center of refuge, and Holly

of June 12 proved to be a Stuart, director of patient

well-orchestrated effort at experience, arrived at

ORMC, thanks to meticulous ORMC early that morning to

preparation by the hospital provide assistance. Stuart,

Emergency Preparedness who had been expecting

and Safety team, the entire 40 people, went into high

Orlando Health system gear, arranging for food
and other community System-wide Emergency Response Drill | March 2016 and water, gathering cell

organizations. phone chargers for guests,

On the night of the tragedy, Mark Jones, senior vice recruiting Spanish interpreters and calling in

president of Orlando Health and president of ORMC, spiritual counselors for those who were grieving. A

activated a Hospital Incident Command System to clinical provider helped guests with fainting episodes

coordinate all aspects of the emergency response and other physical ailments.

effort. “We have a leadership team that brings strong

“The team trained, and when the moment came, skills to provide gracious hospitality,” Stuart

they did their job extraordinarily well and at a level says. “That Sunday morning, we saw several team

of intensity that none of us ever wanted to have to members showing up looking to help.”

prove,” Jones says. Amy DeYoung, administrator for Allied Health

System-wide emergency response drills over two Services, took the lead in developing a hospital

months in early 2016 provided critical preparation communication resource for families looking for

for the real event. They included a mass casualty their loved ones. She offered her personal email

drill involving 57 agencies, 15 hospitals and 17 buses address to families and became the catalyst in

to transport 533 volunteer victims. During the drill, connecting descriptions and identifying information

two waves of patients arrived at ORMC, including a to the hospital staff and law enforcement so that

mock shooter. The FBI, Orlando Police Department families could be reunited.

and Florida Department of Law Enforcement all “That day, we really took care of our community,

participated in the drill. both emotionally and physically,” she says.

A comparison of photos taken during that exercise A Unified Front
and on June 12 shows doctors and staff in the same

place doing the same things. “It’s eerie, but there is The superb crisis management executed by the

no doubt the full-scale exercise helped save lives,” ORMC Level One Trauma Center arguably created

says Eric Alberts, corporate manager, Emergency a protocol for the entire country on how to handle

Preparedness for Orlando Health. a mass casualty event. For the Orlando Health

Dr. Smith who saw firsthand the victims as they team, the events of June 12, 2016, left a permanent

poured into the ER, affirmed the value of the drills: impression of a trauma center stretched to capacity

“You need to practice for these types of things. It’s and responding exceptionally in the face of

about figuring out what you don’t know. We may community tragedy.

think we don’t have time for all of the drills, but they The team developed a guiding principle to help

do make a difference.” them remember: “This day and every day.”

Establishing a Center of Refuge They strive to deliver medical care with a selfless
spirit every day, in every encounter with patients and

As events unfolded, more than 225 friends and families of the Central Florida community.

6000 CALLSTOOUR 51 TEAMMEMBERSWERE
OPERATORS WORKING IN THE
ON SUNDAY, EMERGENCY ROOM
JUNE 12. WITHIN A MATTER
OF THREE HOURS –
ORIGINALLY THERE WERE
32 TEAM MEMBERS.

ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 9

THE 15,000 Weassistedabout DID YOU KNOW: CERTIFIED CHILD PASSENGER SAFETY TECHNICIAN CAR SEAT
ORLANDO 15,000 parents NEARLY 3 OUT OF 5 We are one of the few hospitals which offer a certified child passenger STATS
with their car seats CAR SEATS ARE USED
HEALTH in 2016. safety technician at discharge to assist the parents in properly
COMMUNITY INCORRECTLY harnessing their child and installing their car seat.

GRANT
PROGRAM

The Orlando Health COMMUNITY Car Seats Matter
Community Grant
Program is one way GRANT The consequences associated with a baby or child not secured in a safe
car seat are chilling. In fact, motor vehicle crashes are a leading cause
Orlando Health RECIPIENT of death among children in the United States, and studies have shown
invests back into that an estimated 59 percent of car seats are misused, putting children’s
our community, safety in jeopardy.
providing support
for the important Lina Chico, manager of support with the Children’s Safety Village
work being done in services at Arnold Palmer Medical of Central Florida, they were able
Central Florida. Center, and Valerie Mardle, to purchase 59 new car seats. The
philanthropy director for Children’s money also helped Lina’s program
The 2016 grant ARNOLD PALMER MEDICAL CENTER TRANSPORT TEAM (Left to Right) Home Society of Florida, recognized conduct five free “checkpoints”
recipients are: Sergio Santiago, Patient Transporter and Equipment Specialist; Kayla Atkinson, a need in the community for car in the community and four child
Patient Transporter and Equipment Specialist; Joebany Martinez, Patient seat assistance, but required seat safety classes at Arnold
Center for Transporter; Patricia Eugene, Patient Transporter and Equipment Specialist; funding to move forward with their Palmer Hospital for Children. The
Multicultural Carlos Trujillo, Group Lead, Patient Transport; Lina Chico, Manager, Support respective initiatives. Both found checkpoints, at which car seats were
Wellness and Services; Sherryann Bissessar, Patient Transporter and Equipment Specialist; support through the Orlando Health evaluated and replaced if necessary,
Prevention Victor Rivera, Patient Transporter and Equipment Specialist Community Grant Program. reached more than 100 families.
“The grant program, launched As part of its Healthy Families
Central Florida last year, allows team members of initiative, The Children’s Home
Disaster Medical Orlando Health the opportunity to Society of Florida conducted similar
support causes they are passionate programs with their $15,000 grant.
Coalition about and expand their reach beyond The nonprofit’s largest event, with
the hospital walls,” says Lainie assistance from Orlando Health
Children’s Home Fox Ackerman, JD, community team members, attracted 13 families.
Society of Florida benefit director at Orlando “We conducted a 30-minute
Health. “And for community workshop and 19 car seat
Community organizations, grant support can inspections,” says Valerie. “Fourteen
Health Centers help them make a greater impact.” seats were distributed to families
Lina, who has been with whose seats were either damaged,
Dental Care Orlando Health for eight years expired or not the correct seat
Access Foundation as part of the transport team, for the child.” The organization
saw the need for community car also conducted many smaller,
Frontline seat assistance in her daily work independent events, as well as
Outreach helping families coming to and one-on-one visits with families.
going from the hospital. Broken “This grant allowed us to educate
Grace car seats, improper installation families and help those who didn’t
Medical Home and mildew topped the list. have access to proper car seats,”
“I just knew we could do so says Valerie. “As part of our mission
Second Harvest much more,” says Lina, who is a to support families and children,
Food Bank certified child passenger safety car seat safety is very important.”
technician. “Before the grant, Very important indeed. According
Florida the Orlando area didn’t have a lot to Safe Kids Worldwide estimates,
Department of choices for car seat education when seated in a properly installed
of Health in or events. We are so grateful.” car seat, the lives of up to 71
Seminole County Lina’s “Car Seat Matters” program percent of all infants involved
received a $5,000 grant. Partnering in car crashes are saved.
Arnold Palmer
Medical Center
Transport Team

Howard Phillips
Center Teen Xpress

10 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 11

GOLDSBORO DID YOU KNOW 18 FLAVORS WinterParkHoneyoffersover 125 LB MelloStevesPnuts
FARMERS MARKET Goldsboro, the second town in Florida 18 different flavors of honey has sold over 125
every week, each offering a pounds of peanuts
STATS incorporated by African-Americans, variety of health benefits. at the Goldsboro
was among the largest vegetable-shipping Farmers Market.

hubs in the nation in 1911.

To Market
To Market
The community of Goldsboro, tucked away within the city of Sanford south of
Lake Monroe, has a proud heritage. The farming community founded more than
120 years ago is one of the oldest African-American communities in the country.

Unfortunately, the financially struggling “From there, our community partners COMMUNITY
Goldsboro is also a designated food desert by wanted to create a more farm-to-table model,
the United States Department of Agriculture, such as a farmers market,” says Donna. The GRANT
leading to high incidences of diabetes, heart idea thrives on bringing partners together to
disease and obesity. But strides are being made provide accessible and convenient nutritious RECIPIENT
to change all of that. foods, thereby creating a path to healthier
The Florida Department of Health lifestyles within the community. CLOCKWISE (Top Right): Donna J. Walsh, MPA, BSN, RN, Health
in Seminole County, working with Goldsboro Venise White, grants writer and community Officer, Florida Department of Health in Seminole County;
Front Porch Council and the City of Sanford, programs manager for the Department of Venise White, MPH, MHPE Grants Writer & Community Programs
has opened a farmers market at the Westside Health in Seminole County, says some of Manager, Florida Department of Health in Seminole County;
Community Center, offering residents access to the grant money is allocated as stipends Juley Cetoute, B. S. Epidemiology: Health Planning and Policy
locally grown fresh fruits and vegetables. for vendors who participate, since there is Research Epidemiology Contractor, Florida Department of Health in
Launched December 2, 2016, the start-up uncertainty in how much business will be Seminole County; Darryl Stokes Jr., co-owner, MelloStevesPnuts.
farmers market was made possible through the garnered at the moment. There is no vendor fee
Orlando Health Community Grant Program. for the space as well. ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 13
A $25,000 grant paid for set-up materials and The market has grown from three to six
provisions, marketing, and a farmers market vendors, including Jason Files Produce,
coordinator position. Winter Park Honey and MelloStevesPnuts,
“The market would be very difficult without and attendance has increased weekly to about
this grant,” says Donna Walsh, health officer for 40 residents. The Goldsboro market is open
the Department of Health in Seminole County. from 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm every Friday; the
“It would have had a much slower start.” weekday was chosen as not to compete with
The idea for a farmers market grew out of a established area Saturday markets.
survey aimed at reversing the growth of health The next steps are to move the market to
issues festering in Goldsboro. Much of that a permanent facility and recruit residents
is attributed to the lack of a grocery store or who grow their own produce to participate
access to healthy foods. Prior to earning the as vendors. That would bring the farming
grant from Orlando Health, Donna’s office community aspect of their heritage full circle.
distributed 100 grow boxes to create the seeds “It’s a work in progress,” admits Donna. “We
for establishing community gardens that have a lot of exciting things taking place to
produce fresh fruit and vegetables. make this a healthier area to live.”

FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE GOLDSBORO FARMERS MARKET: contact Venise White at 407.665.3008
or visit the Healthy Seminole County Facebook page for farmers market updates.

12 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

Go
Baby

Go
FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS YOUNG LIFE, Lucas Mueller is able to explore
his surroundings. The smile on his face behind the wheel of his very own car is
both heartwarming and encouraging as he works to gain the mobility limited
by Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, a form of childhood onset epilepsy.

The University of Central Florida’s (UCF) Go Baby nationwide. The UCF chapter is one of the more
Go! is a new initiative that gives two-and-a-half-year- successful organizations, due to community
old Lucas and other children with delayed or hindered partnerships and a strong volunteer base.
mobility a chance to experience the independence Seeing the positive impact that this new-found
of discovering their own little world. The idea is mobility has on these children and understanding
relatively simple: purchase off-the-shelf motorized toy its importance for their physical, cognitive and
cars, then rewire and retrofit them for children with social development, the Orlando Health Community
unique abilities. Benefit department and Arnold Palmer Hospital for
Dr. Jennifer Tucker, pediatric specialist and Children’s Outpatient Rehabilitation joined on as
physical therapy clinical director at UCF, brought active supporters of UCF’s program.
the program to UCF in 2015. The program was “By bringing community partners together to help
founded in 2012 by Dr. Cole Galloway, professor advance this program, Orlando Health and UCF
and infant behavioral specialist at the University of are opening up new worlds of discovery for children
Delaware. Today, Go Baby Go! boasts 60 chapters with mobility issues,” says Lainie Fox Ackerman, JD,

14 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT | 15

COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS

community benefit director at are the beneficiaries. When a child an array of positive results when
Orlando Health. laughs for the first time or siblings children with little or no mobility
fight over a toy car for the first get the chance to move about like
Community Partnerships time, that’s exciting. At the end of other kids.
Go Baby Go! Workshops — also the day, it’s all about the child. You “Lucas understands he can get
known as builds — for parents want them to be thinking or saying, somewhere new,” says Angie. “I
and therapists bring together ‘It’s so easy to make it move! I push see him more motivated to move.
community leaders and students a button and I can make it move!’” And he understands the cause and
to retrofit the cars. Prior to the The program’s grassroots effect aspect. The cars help these
workshops, the cars are rewired efforts are growing fast due kids find their environments.”
by UCF students so that toddlers to three major attributes: the When Angie learned of Go
can make the car move forward program is affordable, innovative Baby Go!, she encouraged Lucas’s
with the touch of a button on the and accessible. Affordability parents, Megan and Cory, to apply
steering wheel. is especially important. Many for one of the cars. Dr. Tucker
“We have students involved “adaptive” products for children selects the recipients based on
from a variety of different with unique abilities are expensive, applications received online.
disciplines, from engineering to adding further financial burdens “He does like to push buttons,”
physical therapy,” explains Dr. on families. says Megan. “We were extremely
Tucker. “The fuel that makes it “The cars give them a chance pleased to be chosen.” Lucas
run is the students.” to be mobile,” says Katie is one of the 10 children who
At last year’s workshop, Kinder, occupational therapist received a car in 2016. The cars
volunteers from Orlando Health, and supervisor of Arnold are offered to the families at no
Orlando City Soccer and Arnold Palmer Hospital’s Outpatient charge and maintained by UCF
Palmer Invitational took part Rehabilitation. “While there are if any adjustments are needed.
in the build at UCF. Ten red wheelchairs for toddlers, it’s a huge When the child outgrows the car,
Lightening McQueen cars investment. This is affordable.” families are asked to return it to
were customized for each child Katie says the goal is to involve UCF so another child can share
depending on their needs. The children with mobility issues in the experience.
miniature automobiles were the program at a young age to Since Lucas received his car,
decorated with stickers and decals help boost confidence. Most of Megan says his confidence to be
that the children chose before the children taking part in Go mobile has steadily increased.
they got behind the wheel and Baby Go! cannot walk, and these “He travels down hallways at
lined up for their big ride. Funding recrafted cars offer them the home,” she says. “He takes it
from Orlando Health provided freedom to explore and learn on outside onto the sidewalk. He
10 cars in 2016, 10 cars in 2017, their own. loves that car.”
plus individual builds for children “Our goal and our hope is that
throughout the year. Positive Results he will walk on his own, and he is
“It’s an emotional roller coaster Angie Krahn, Lucas’s physical starting to show signs that he will,
and a win for the therapists, for therapist at Arnold Palmer especially with a gate trainer,”
us and for all partners,” says Dr. Hospital’s Outpatient she adds. “We thank everyone
Tucker. “The families and parents Rehabilitation, says studies show involved. We are so blessed.”

“Our goal and 20 children with motor impairments
our hope is that at the workshops received
he will walk on modified toy cars to allow them
his own, and he the opportunity to play and
is starting to participate with their peers.
show signs that
he will...” 160 volunteers from across Orlando
Health, Orlando City Soccer
MEGAN MUELLER Club, Arnold Palmer Invitational,
UCF, and other community
organizations came together to
build cars for kids.

16 | ORL ANDO HEALTH COMMUNIT Y BENEFIT REPORT