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  • How to make healthier choices at a fast food restaurant

    When you are hungry and on the run, sometimes picking up fast food is the most convenient option. For kids and parents alike, fast food is quick and tasty, but it can be loaded with unwanted fat, calories, sodium, and sugar. Fast food menus can be tricky to decode, especially for the inexperienced. Finding a healthy and well-balanced meal at a fast food restaurant can be challenging, but with the right tools it can be done.

  • Living with Illness, Giving Back to Others

    Walking the halls of Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, it’s not uncommon to come across the familiar faces of patients who are routinely admitted. Dayna Chavarria is one of those patients.                              

  • Child Life Offers Play, Preparation and Education

    Child life at Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies is made up of a team of professionally Certified Child Life Specialists and child life assistants who strive to mitigate the fear and mystery of a healthcare experience for children, teens, and families. They focus on building therapeutic relationships and providing supportive interactions for the purpose of helping these young patients and their siblings understand and cope with hospitalization and medical treatment.    

  • A Mother's Story: The Blessings That Come With Having a Child With Spina Bifida

    Just over nine years ago, I had never heard of a neural tube defect or spina bifida. In fact, nine years ago I would have told you spina bifida was one of the most horrible things to learn your baby would be born with. Spina bifida is a birth defect that makes you feel as though something so terrible is wrong with your baby.

  • Pediatric Hospitalists

    Pediatric hospitalists are physicians specially dedicated to providing the highest quality of coordinated care for each child during their hospital stay. 

  • Giving back to the twins' first home

    When Ritu and Raja Sandhu found out they were pregnant with twins in 2007, they were over-the-moon excited and looking forward to starting a family together. Following this exciting news, everything seemed to just fall into place. They were talking about baby names and dreaming about their twin’s future nursery, and they couldn’t have asked for an easier pregnancy. It was all happening so fast, yet they were about to be hit with reality a lot sooner than they expected when Ritu went into labor at 27 weeks.

  • Coming to terms with the competitive nature of motherhood

    Mothering is hard, isn’t it?

  • Elise Hughes

  • Music Therapy

    Music is a universal language that can offer healing effects. In fact, music therapy is a research-based profession that benefits the emotional, social, psychological and physical needs of hospitalized patients. Music can help kids manage stress, alleviate pain, express feelings, enhance memory and improve communication while promoting general wellness and healing.

  • Heater / Cooler Device Information

    For patients or parents who have questions about the heater/cooler device used during open-heart surgery, please call our help line at 321.843.7200 or visit the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website for more information.