Orlando Health has opened the 2024 cycle of the Orlando Health Community Grant Program. As part of its ongoing commitment to Central Florida, the program offers competitive grants to assist local organizations and Orlando Health team members in their efforts to improve health and wellness in the region.
These grants are one way that Orlando Health is investing back into the Central Florida region by supporting important work that enhances the community. Grant recipients receive funding for programs that address needs identified in the 2022 Community Health Needs Assessment (CHNA). Many of the programs that receive grants assist families and residents who are facing food insecurity, health inequities, socioeconomic challenges and have limited access to healthcare services.
“Several Central Florida organizations are doing great work for local families and the Orlando Health Community Grant program is just one way our healthcare system invests back into our community,” said Lainie Fox Ackerman, assistant vice president of external affairs and community benefit at Orlando Health. “This is just one of the several ways we provide support for the important work that is being done to address health and wellness needs across Central Florida.”
The submission process for organizations interested in applying takes place in two phases. The first phase requires applicants to submit a letter of intent. The deadline to submit is Friday, June 23, 2023. Letters can be submitted through the form found here.
Applicants are encouraged to request grants between the suggested amounts of $500 and $50,000. A limited number of applicants will receive an invitation to participate in the second phase of the process requiring the submission of a grant proposal by Friday, August 18, 2023. Applicants chosen to receive funding will be notified in September 2023.
About Orlando Health
Orlando Health, headquartered in Orlando, Florida, is a not-for-profit healthcare organization with $9.2 billion of assets under management that serves the southeastern United States and Puerto Rico.
Founded more than 100 years ago, the healthcare system is recognized around the world for Central Florida’s only pediatric and adult Level I Trauma program as well as the only state-accredited Level II Adult Trauma Center in Pinellas County. It is the home of the nation’s largest neonatal intensive care unit under one roof, the only system in the southeast to offer open fetal surgery to repair the most severe forms of spina bifida, the site of an Olympic athlete training facility and operator of one of the largest and highest performing clinically integrated networks in the region. Orlando Health has pioneered life-changing medical research and its Graduate Medical Education program hosts more than 350 residents and fellows.
The 3,888-bed system includes 29 hospitals and emergency departments – 24 of which are currently operational with five coming soon. The system also includes nine specialty institutes, more than 100 adult and pediatric primary care practices, skilled nursing facilities, an in-patient behavioral health facility under the management of Acadia Healthcare, and more than 60 outpatient facilities that include imaging and laboratory services, wound care centers, home healthcare services in partnership with LHC Group, and urgent care centers in partnership with FastMed Urgent Care. More than 4,750 physicians, representing more than 100 medical specialties and subspecialties have privileges across the Orlando Health system, which employs more than 27,000 team members and more than 1,200 physicians.
In FY22, Orlando Health served nearly 142,000 inpatients and 3.9 million outpatients. The healthcare system provided more than $782 million in total value to the communities it serves in the form of charity care, community benefit programs and services, community building activities and more in FY 21, the most recent period for which this information is available. Additional information can be found at http://www.orlandohealth.com, or follow us on LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter @orlandohealth.
