Healthcare is coming close to home with the new Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital. Opening on January 11, 2025, the new Orlando Health hospital at 380 Rinehart Road features six floors of state-of-the-art medical equipment and staff all focused on giving patients the best possible care without needing to travel far to get it.
The new hospital, a Level 1 trauma center, is Orlando Health’s northernmost loca tion and its answer to local healthcare for the Sanford/Lake Mary area. The Lake Mary Hospital prides it self on being a hospital built by doctors and nurses, and the attention to detail and quality care is evident as soon as you walk through the front entrance. Recently, I was given the opportunity to tour the facility, and there’s so much to talk about.
One of the biggest draws of the new hospital is the Center for Women & Babies, located on the third floor. The Or lando Health Lake Mary Hos pital prides itself on bringing quality obstetrical care to mothers and babies both dur ing and immediately after pregnancy, and without hav ing to leave their community. The hospital’s six labor and delivery rooms each have a private bathroom and hy drotherapy tub with alterna tive comfort options, while digital whiteboards keep each mother’s care team up-to-date and running efficiently.
For the most urgent cases, the Women’s Services depart ment also features six obstet rical triage rooms and two operating rooms, with room for a large NICU. On the same floor, the hospital’s eighteen postpartum rooms have spared no expense on comfort and convenience, with each room featuring a pull-out lounge for family members to rest. When it’s time to leave the hospital, new parents can rest easy knowing that the Lake Mary Hospital has infant security transmitters built into the walls, keyed to each baby’s wristband to ensure the safety of each family’s most precious cargo.
“We’re not a community hospital just deciding to start Women’s Services,” says Rose Palmer, Director of Women’s Services at the Lake Mary Hospital, who describes the hospital as providing “quality obstetrical care close to home.”
The new Lake Mary Hospital has relied on its sister hospital, the Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies, to provide the same advancements in labor and delivery healthcare without having expectant mothers travel nearly an hour away.
One floor down from the Women’s Services depart ment, the hospital’s ICU has sixteen beds, each with a pri vate bathroom and shower, as well as six operating rooms, complete with two state-of the-art medical robots. The hospital also boasts three catheterization labs, ready and waiting for a full suite of cardiac procedures like pace maker implantation.
Aside from the patient care facilities, the hospital also hasn’t forgotten about the amenities for family mem bers, with surgery lounge not far from the operating rooms themselves. A cafeteria and coffee bar will be available for staff, guests, family members, and the general community, even when it gets late. Not far from the cafeteria, there’s also an in-building scripts phar macy, allowing medications to be delivered to a patient’s bedside or picked up on your way out the door.
No one ever wants to be in the hospital, of course, but starting January 11, 2025, local residents will at least be able to take comfort in the fact that Orlando Health has provided an impressive healthcare facil ity to deal with some of life’s most stressful issues. While the new hospital is impressive and can boast about every thing from its overall design to how much cutting-edge medical technology it has, it doesn’t seem like a stretch to say the most important thing about the Orlando Health Lake Mary Hospital is that it’s right in our backyard.
