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  • Is your preschool or daycare doing enough to protect your child from the flu?

    Each year around this time we start talking about the flu, and we keep talking about it. Why, you ask? Because the flu is a real and serious threat for small children. Each year millions of children get sick with the seasonal flu virus, thousands of children are hospitalized and some of those unfortunately will die from complications of the flu.

  • Arnold Palmer Hospital Cardiac Experts Present at Nation’s Largest Pediatric Cardiology Conference

    An international group of more than 750 medical experts will gather in Orlando, Fla., for the nation’s largest pediatric cardiology conference

  • Orlando Health Receives “Best Children’s Hospital” Designation in 5 Specialties

    Orlando, FL (June 15, 2021) – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has ranked Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies in its 2021-2022 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online today. The hospital was awarded with designations in five specialties.

  • Orlando Health Receives “Best Children’s Hospital” Designation in 4 Specialties

    Orlando, FL (June 16, 2020) – U.S. News & World Report, the global authority in hospital rankings and consumer advice, has ranked Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies in its 2020-2021 Best Children’s Hospitals rankings published online today. The hospital was awarded with designations in four specialties.

  • Orlando Health Receives “Best Children’s Hospital” Designation in 4 Specialties

    Orlando, FL (June 21, 2023) – Orlando Health Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and Orlando Health Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies have been recognized as Best Children’s Hospitals for 2023-2024 by U.S. News & World Report. Now in its 17th year, the rankings assist parents of children with rare or life-threatening illnesses and their doctors in choosing the right hospital for them.

  • Your Child’s Migraines: Navigating the ER

    Migraines are among the most common reasons for children to visit an emergency room for medical care. After all, there are about 7 million children in the United States who live with migraines. Knowing when to take your child to the ER and how to manage the wait there is important for a speedy recovery and in preventing future migraines.

  • How the Spina Bifida Clinic at Arnold Palmer Hospital is changing to offer even better care

    Orlando Health has been providing care to pediatric spina bifida patients for over 35 years, treating patients up to age 21. The program is one of the largest and busiest spina bifida programs in the region with hundreds of children coming from all over Florida to receive optimal, multidisciplinary care.

  • 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.                              

  • Get to know Dr. Patricia Wheeler, pediatric geneticist at Arnold Palmer Hospital

    You could say that a pediatric geneticist is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes, working to solve the mystery of a child’s medical condition. Geneticists work with families to help determine whether a child’s illness could be caused by a change in a child’s DNA, the hereditary material that carries a person’s genetic information. Accompanied by a team of professionals, a geneticist also helps figure out whether this disorder is likely to be passed on to future generations and helps patients and families seek the best care for their condition. Some common inherited disorders that geneticists diagnose include autism, neurofibromatosis, Down syndrome, sickle cell disease and many more.

  • The many ways teens act out to harm themselves- and what you can do about it (Part 3 of 3)

    I hope that by reading Parts One rel="noopener noreferrer" and Two of this series where we talked about the different ways self harm can manifest itself in teenagers and the different reasons why teens engage in self harm, you’ve gained a wider perspective about self-harming behaviors, what they are and why teens do it. This topic is often clouded in misconceptions and caregivers often assume their teen knows better than that. However, even if your teen does know better than that, it is important to be prepared in the event he starts doing it. Our responses as caregivers are the most important factors in helping them stop. This third part will offer practical ideas to help teens who self-harm.