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• The Hubbard House near the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children will close December 14th after Orlando Health decided it was too costly to make repairs to the old Victorian home.
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• Emergency rooms are busy places especially during the summer. More people are outside playing sports or enjoying the outdoors which can lead to sometimes getting injured. Dr. Christopher Hunter, assistant program director of the Orlando Health emergency medicine residency and the associate medical director of Orange County EMS, joins us to talk about why ER’s tend to get busy during the summer and why Orlando has unique patients.
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• Most of the victims from the Pulse shooting on June 12th 2016 were taken to the Orlando Regional Medical Center, half a mile up the road from the nightclub. Eric Alberts, the corporate manager of Emergency Preparedness for Orlando Health Hospital System, joins Intersection to explain how the emergency response planning has changed since 2016.
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• Orlando health has released its assessment of how it responded to the Pulse shooting.
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• Doctors are hopeful a new drug being tested at Orlando Health could improve survival outcomes for metastatic breast cancer patients. The drug is undergoing a clinical trial.
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• The emergency room at Dr. Phillips Hospital is equipped with a new technology that can disinfect ambulances in minutes. It stops the spread of contagious diseases.
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• The first phase of a new cancer center at Dr. Phillips Hospital has been completed. Oncologists have already been relocated to the Lake Nona area.
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• C. Diff is a potentially deadly bacteria that killed 29,000 people last year – and too many people are catching the bacteria at Florida hospitals.
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• The final shooting victim in the Pulse Night Club shooting has been released from the hospital after 86 days.
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• Florida Hospital President and CEO Daryl Tol says health care transparency is critical and “has to happen soon.”
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