{"id":7232,"date":"2023-06-13T18:29:47","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T18:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lakenona.com\/fountain-life-opens-innovative-precision-diagnostic-center-in-orlandos-lake-nona-community-copy\/"},"modified":"2024-07-19T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-19T08:07:33","slug":"ucf-lake-nona-hospital-is-leed-gold-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/blog\/ucf-lake-nona-hospital-is-leed-gold-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"UCF Lake Nona Hospital Is LEED Gold Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><em>A First in Florida &#8211; The designation, announced the day before Earth Day, recognizes the hospital\u2019s commitment to sustainable building products and energy-saving operations.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UCF Lake Nona Hospital announced it received LEED Gold certification \u2014 the first and only hospital in Florida and only the 28<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0in the nation \u2014 to achieve this green building designation. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design), developed by the U.S. Green Building Council, (USGBC), is the most widely used green building rating system in the world and an international symbol of excellence.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">UCF Lake Nona Hospital is a joint venture between the university and HCA Healthcare that opened two years ago adjacent to the UCF College of Medicine in the heart of Lake Nona\u2019s Medical City. In addition to providing needed in-patient care to non-veteran adults in the community, the hospital serves as an education site for UCF medical and nursing students and a site for collaborative medical research.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"993\" height=\"662\" class=\"wp-image-25959921\" src=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wendy-Brandon-and-Amy-Pastor-993x662-1.png\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wendy-Brandon-and-Amy-Pastor-993x662-1.png 993w, https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wendy-Brandon-and-Amy-Pastor-993x662-1-980x653.png 980w, https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Wendy-Brandon-and-Amy-Pastor-993x662-1-480x320.png 480w\" sizes=\"(min-width: 0px) and (max-width: 480px) 480px, (min-width: 481px) and (max-width: 980px) 980px, (min-width: 981px) 993px, 100vw\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">CEO of UCF Lake Nona Hospital Wendy Brandon (right) with USGBC Central Florida Board Chair Amy Pastor (left) after unveiling of LEED Gold certificate. <em>(Credit: UCF)<\/em><\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-fe48e5de wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\r\n<div class=\"wp-block-button post-classic-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/news\/ucf-lake-nona-hospital-is-leed-gold-certified-a-first-in-florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE<\/a><\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UCF Lake Nona Hospital announced it received LEED Gold certification \u2014 the first and only hospital in Florida and only the 28th\u00a0in the nation \u2014 to achieve this green building designation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":25957882,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_crdt_document":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[131,183,132,170,128],"class_list":["post-7232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-health","tag-human-performance","tag-innovation","tag-medical","tag-town-center"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25957882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakenona.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}