Lake Nona Medical City
| Lake Nona Medical City | |
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| Neighborhood | |
| Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida | |
 Location of Orlando in Orange County and the state of Florida |
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 Lake Nona Medical City
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| Coordinates: 28°22′2″N 81°16′49″W / 28.36722°N 81.28028°W | |
| Country |
 United States
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| State |
 Florida
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| County |
 Orange
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| City |
 Orlando
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| Founded | October 2005 |
| Opened | August 2010 |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.02 sq mi (2.6 km2) |
| Elevation | 82 ft (25 m) |
| Time zone | EST (UTC−5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC−4) |
| ZIP code(s) | 32827 |
| Area code(s) | 321, 407 |
| Website | Official site |
Lake Nona Medical City is a 650-acre (260 ha) health and life sciences park in Orlando, Florida, United States. It is located near Orlando International Airport and within the master-planned community of Lake Nona. The city is home to the University of Central Florida's Health Sciences Campus, which includes the university's College of Medicine and Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences. In the future, the campus will also house UCF's College of Nursing, College of Dental Medicine, and a teaching hospital.
The medical city also includes the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Nemours Children’s Hospital, a University of Florida Academic and Research Center, and Valencia College at Lake Nona. In addition, a Veterans Administration Medical Center began seeing clinical patients from February, 2015.
The concept of the medical city began in October 2005 when the donated $12.5 million and 50 acres (20 ha) of land to the University of Central Florida to help establish a medical school. In March 2006, the Florida Board of Governors voted to approve UCF's proposal to build a medical college at Lake Nona, and the school greeted its first students in Fall 2009. In 2012, UCF purchased an additional 25 acres (10 ha) of land at Lake Nona to construct a teaching hospital.
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