Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) will be the local host of one of the first in a series of nationwide meetings scheduled by The Citizen’s Health Care Working Group to get input from the public on how to make health care work for everyone. The event will be from 8:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. January [...]
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WPHF Pledges $1 Million for UCF Medical School
The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF), pleased to take a lead in efforts to spark community support for building a medical school at the University of Central Florida (UCF), has pledged $1,000,000.00, contingent upon the approval of the Medical School by the State University System of Florida Board of Governors. The pledge, one of the first from [...]
Winter Park Health Foundation Has a New Home
Photos from the Open House The Winter Park Health Foundation (WPHF) has moved to a newly constructed permanent home at 220 Edinburgh Drive, Winter Park, just south of Aloma Avenue, near Winter Park Memorial Hospital. It is the first permanent home for the Foundation, which in the past has rented office space. “We decided it [...]
Florida on the Move’s Obesity Summit Draws a Capacity Crowd
Healthy People, Healthy Community, a Summit on Obesity sponsored by Florida on the Move with the support of AstraZeneca September 30 drew a capacity crowd from throughout Florida and as far away as Georgia and Indiana. The speakers alternately sized up the obesity problem and the impact it has on individuals and businesses, discussed ways [...]
Local Foundation Provides Hurricane Relief Funds to Red Cross
The Winter Park Health Foundation today presented $50,000 to the American Red Cross of Central Florida to help the agency provide relief for Hurricane Katrina victims who have been displaced to Central Florida. “Central Florida knows a bit about the pain that accompanies hurricane devastation because we had some first-hand experience last year with hurricanes [...]
