Adventist Health builds new facility

The Celebration community is getting a new 85,000-square-foot skilled nursing facility, Adventist Health System, the parent company of Florida Hospital, announced on March 30.

Adventist Care Center is a two-story, 120-bed facility, currently under construction near Florida Hospital Celebration House.

The center is expected to employ 150 people and has created 130 construction jobs. It will open in April 2018. Perinatal Care Certification, joining 30 other hospitals in the nation with this designation.

Brazilian startup company which is establishing itself in the U.S. in Orlando in collaboration with Florida Hospital, is recognized as one of the Social Entrepreneurs of 2017 by the Schwab Foundation. Livox has created an app that helps people with disabilities communicate and study.

is selling eight hospitals in Florida, Ohio and Pennsylvania to the forprofit Steward Health Care, including 119-bed Wuesthoff Health System in Melbourne and 298-bed Wuesthoff Health System in Rockledge.

The administration for office

will be closed until April 7 for renovation. The Vital Statistics office has temporarily moved to the health department’s Environmental Health Office in Tavares.

an Orlandobased company with medication adherence software, has analyzed its database, reporting that patients whose medications were submitted through its software were 80 times less likely to abandon their therapy. The company has also published a white paper about medication non-adherence.

is holding its annual Promise Walk on May 20 in Apopka High School. For more information, visit promisewalk.org/orlando.

director of public affairs and media relations for Orlando Health, is named Professional of the Year by the Orlando Chapter of Florida Public Relations Association.

The Florida Blue Foundation has named

who started the nonprofit GROW Central Florida, and

as finalists for its Sapphire Awards. They are among 15 finalists who will received part of $365,000 in grants from the foundation.

and CEO of president

is elected as chairman of the Florida Hospice & Palliative Care Association Executive Committee. The organization is a nonprofit representing hospice programs in Florida.