Lake Nona Medical City

Lake Nona Medical City
Neighborhood
Lake Nona, Orlando, Florida
Location of Orlando in Orange County and the state of Florida
Lake Nona Medical City Location within the contiguous United States of America
Coordinates: 28°22′2″N 81°16′49″W / 28.36722°N 81.28028°W / 28.36722; -81.28028
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Orange
City	Orlando
Founded	October 2005; 18 years ago (2005-10)
Opened	August 2010; 14 years ago (2010-08)
Area
• Total	1.02 sq mi (2.6 km2)
Elevation [1]	82 ft (25 m)
Time zone	UTC−5 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP code(s)	32827
Area code(s)	321, 407, 689
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 University of Central Florida College of Nursing, the University of Central Florida College of Dental Medicine, and a teaching hospital.^[2]

The medical city also includes the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, Nemours Children's Hospital, University of Florida College of Pharmacy, which is ranked #5 among all pharmacy schools in the nation,^[3] and Valencia College at Lake Nona. In addition, the Orlando Veterans Administration Medical Center, began seeing clinical patients from February 2015.^[4]