Orlando Health Downtown Campus Evolution

Dating back to 1918, the tradition of community health and service started with the Orange Memorial Hospital. Over the next sixty years, the small, 50-bed hospital expanded and consolidated to become Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC), one of the largest tertiary facilities in the region and home to Central Florida’s only Level One Trauma Center.

Today, the Orlando Health downtown campus is composed of five hospitals providing a diversity of healthcare services to the Central Florida community. Consisting of over 1,000 beds and 8,000 employees, these facilities form the core of the Orlando Health downtown medical campus.

Campus Expansion

For the past 22 years, RLF has worked with the Orlando Health hospital system completing hundreds of projects that have made a significant impact to the evolution of the downtown campus. This partnership began with a major $80 million transformation.

Challenge: Comprised of a group of oddly configured buildings that had been added to and expanded upon, the medical campus suffered from low floor to floor heights, varying construction types, outdated technologies and code issues. Through a simultaneous dual planning and design effort, our design team analyzed the potential reuse of facilities versus replacement and renovation options. The study considered all aspects of a fully functional medical campus, and in the end the client accepted our recommendation to demolish and replace the majority of outdated structures.