West side of Ginsburg Tower
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Conference room spire
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Florida Hospital logo sign along Rollins Street
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East side of Ginsburg Tower
The stage for the event is visible in the lower right corner.
Lars Houmann, Florida Hospital President
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer
Dyer couldn't be on location this night, but had been earlier in the week and provided a video message for the event.
Don Jernigan, Adventist Health System President
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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush
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Alan Ginsburg and Des Cummings Jr.
Alan Ginsburg at podium whose family foundation donated $20 million toward the project and who the tower is named after. Behind him, Des Cummings Jr., Florida Hospital Executive Vice President.
The opening of the light and fireworks show
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Ginsburg Light and Fireworks Show, part 1
The first half of pretty much the entire show. It was technologically impressive…
Ginsburg Light and Fireworks Show, part 2
…Colored lights were arranged in every single room on the tower's east side, with each window addressable as a single pixel, combined with a wealth of fireworks. This show was completely Disney calibre.
Conference room spire
Each floor of the tower has a conference room within encircling windows that provide a splendid view of downtown Orlando.
Brand new Emergency Room unit
Located in the lower level, I learned that the entire ER facility is the size of a football field.
Beautifully decorated common areas throughout Ginsburg Tower
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Gorgeous hallways alongside the ER
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One of the many passageways between each row of ER stations
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Entrance to the children's ER section—I called it the decontamination chamber!
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A guide informed visitors this section is for kids age 17 and under
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The central station of the children's emergency facility
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Every room has video projectors with a variety of scenes from which the patient can choose
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Every room has video projectors with a variety of scenes from which the patient can choose
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Transparent/opaque LCD privacy panels
Just a flip of a switch and the LCD windows go from transparent to completely frosted opaque.
A beautiful new café which serves only vegan food
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Definitely a crowd eager to sample some flatbread and soup prepared by the chefs
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Several massive pizza ovens in the back
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Even the elevator common area is beautifully decorated
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Five floors up, we toured one of the Intensive Care Units
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Luxury ICU?
I almost feel like I would want to need the services of an ICU to stay in a room this nice—almost.
Opposite angle from prior photo
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Nurse station between rooms
Jeff's mom was one of the guides. She is standing in front of a nurse station that overlooks two ICU rooms. Every pair of rooms is configured this way.
One of the nearly finished general nurse stations
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Monitoring station for patient vitals
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One of the conference rooms in the rounded spire seen from outside in prior photos
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Spire conference room—tried a darker shot to capture the faint purplish glow
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The main lobby is upstairs from the vegan café
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Beyond the piano is an outdoor patio
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Waiting area and reception
This is the opposite angle from the prior photo. Reception and main entrance is around the corner to the left, beyond the waiting area.
Chapel in the waiting area
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Beautiful mosaic art installation in the chapel
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The lobby's waiting area
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The lobby's waiting area
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Main reception
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Main reception
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Main reception
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Reception area for the new Cardiovascular Institute
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Memorial display for Alan Ginsburg's wife and son
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Memorial display for Alan Ginsburg's wife and son
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Hospital gift shop
We joked that, just like at Disney, our tour ended with a walk past the gift shop. The only difference was, we were all handed a $5 gift card for the shop.
Inside the gift shop
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Florida Hospital centennial logo pin
In addition to the gift shop card, we were also all given a logo pin featuring Florida Hospital's centennial, made from a stylization of the Ginsburg Tower.
A huge mural in the main lobby reception area
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Big windows near the mural looking outside can only mean one thing…
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…at night, the huge mural is clearly visible from outside
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West side of Ginsburg Tower with the original tower in the background, to the north
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Short clip of WFTV Channel 9's news report covering the event
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PR photo by Spencer Freeman
My friend Spencer is a PR photographer for the hospital. He took this shot from across Lake Estelle during the outdoor show.
PR photo by Spencer Freeman
My friend Spencer is a PR photographer for the hospital. He took this shot from across Lake Estelle during the outdoor show.
