Furnished housing near Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital.

The campus

Orlando Health Dr. P. Phillips Hospital sits in southwest Orlando, on Turkey Lake Road near the tourist corridor most visitors know as International Drive and ICON Park. It is a different part of the metro than the downtown Orlando Health campus and AdventHealth Orlando, and a different drive for our guests: our closest homes run about 16 to 18 minutes away by road, longer than the runs to the hospitals nearer downtown, because our thirteen houses sit on the west, northwest and downtown edges of the city while this hospital sits on the opposite, southwest side.

A hospital in this part of Orlando still means the two kinds of stay we see everywhere in this city: a clinician on a travel contract who needs a furnished house near the shift, and a family staying close while someone they love is a patient. Both end up choosing from the same short list of homes, for the same plain reason: a whole house with a kitchen and laundry costs less over a month than a hotel room near the tourist corridor, and it gives a family more room to spread out than a single room ever could.

Because the hospital sits closer to the parks than to downtown, a fair number of the people who end up in these three homes are driving past Universal and ICON Park to get to a shift or a bedside, not past office towers. That is worth knowing before you book: the same roads that carry you to work also carry you to the parks on a day off, which is a small consolation on a long assignment or a hard week. It also means the choice of home matters more here than it does for our downtown hospitals: across the portfolio the drive runs anywhere from 16 to 28 minutes, and the gap between the short end and the long end adds up fast across a thirteen-week contract or a month-long admission.

The homes closest to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital

Six of our thirteen homes come in under 20 minutes of the campus by road: Fruit Tree Home at 16, the Amelia and Piedmont houses tied at 18 with the Dollins House and the Sunset Lake House, and the Meet & Play House a minute behind at 19. The three below are the ones we go into in the most detail for guests headed to this hospital.

South of Downtown

Holden Heights

Fruit Tree Home

3 bd 2 ba Sleeps 10

6 min downtown · 5 min ORMC · 13 min Universal

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Downtown Orlando

Parramore / Downtown Edge

Amelia’s Arena Retreat

4 bd 2 ba Sleeps 8

7 min downtown · 9 min ORMC · 16 min Universal

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West Orlando

Washington Shores

Piedmont

4 bd 3 ba Sleeps 14

11 min downtown · 11 min ORMC · 13 min Universal

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The 25th Street House in Holden Heights is about 16 minutes from Dr. P. Phillips Hospital. It's a three-bedroom, two-bathroom bungalow that sleeps 10, with a full-size washer and dryer, keyless entry and a screened front porch. The kitchen was freshly renovated with quartz-look counters and stainless steel appliances, and the bedrooms come made up with fresh linens so you can land after a long shift and go straight to bed. It's a modest, older bungalow with small bedrooms, not a big house, which is why it suits a solo clinician or a couple well and a family of four comfortably.

The Amelia House in Parramore and the Piedmont House in Washington Shores are both about 18 minutes away. Amelia’s Arena Retreat is a four-bedroom, two-bathroom house that sleeps 8, recently renovated with granite-look counters, two updated bathrooms and a bedroom with its own attached bathroom, useful when two people on different shifts don't want to share. It sits on a block where the houses stand close together, in a modest, older part of downtown's edge. Piedmont is bigger: four bedrooms, three bathrooms, sleeping 14, with a large concrete parking pad that fits several vehicles and a game corner with a foosball table for anyone bringing kids along.

Where the homes sit relative to the campus

The map places each home in its true compass bearing from the hospital, with the distance from the centre standing in for the drive time by road rather than miles. Dr. P. Phillips Hospital sits in the southwest of the metro, and our thirteen homes cluster on the opposite side of the city, on the west, northwest and downtown edges, which is the plain reason none of them counts as a quick trip. Fruit Tree Home, in Holden Heights south of downtown, is the nearest at 16 minutes. Amelia’s Arena Retreat in Parramore and Piedmont in Washington Shores follow at 18, tied with the Dollins House, also in Washington Shores, and the Sunset Lake House on the Sunset Lake side of the same neighborhood.

The chart lines up all thirteen houses by minutes to the hospital, and the same pattern shows up here as everywhere else: homes with a short run to the downtown Orlando Health and AdventHealth campuses post a longer number for this one, and the other way around. Six of the thirteen homes come in under 20 minutes, five of them bunched between 16 and 18 minutes and the sixth, the Meet & Play House in Malibu Groves, at 19; WinterPark Home in Lockhart posts the longest number here at 28 minutes, and Wekiwa Home in Hiawassee comes in a little closer at 26. For most guests headed to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, the practical move is to pick a home first for the rest of the stay, then plan around the drive as a fixed cost.

The shift commute

The minutes on this page are typical road-routing times without traffic, and the drive to Dr. P. Phillips Hospital runs partly through the tourist corridor, so it holds up worse at peak hours than the shorter hops to our downtown-side hospitals. From the Amelia and Piedmont houses, the route runs on I-4 or SR-408 before continuing southwest toward Turkey Lake Road, the same general corridor that carries traffic to Universal and ICON Park; a shift that starts or ends near the evening theme-park crowds should plan extra time. From Fruit Tree Home, I-4 does most of the work, since Holden Heights sits close enough to downtown for the interstate to be the natural route the rest of the way.

SR-408 and the stretch of I-4 nearest the tourist corridor are toll roads, collected by transponder or by plate. Over a run of shifts spread across weeks, a SunPass or E-PASS transponder pays for itself quickly compared with paying by plate on every trip. None of that affects parking once you're home: every one of our houses comes with a private driveway, carport or parking pad, so a clinician finishing a night shift pulls straight in without circling the block, and a second car for a partner or a visiting relative has somewhere to sit.

The same drive works two ways for clinicians here. Fruit Tree Home is also about 13 minutes from Universal and 15 from ICON Park, Amelia’s Arena Retreat is about 16 minutes from Universal, and Piedmont is about 13 minutes from Universal too, so a day off between shifts can go straight to the parks without adding much to the week's driving.

For travel clinicians

A monthly agreement matched to your contract is how we set this up for travel clinicians. You get a written agreement naming the home, the dates, the rate and the deposit, plus itemized monthly receipts your agency can run through a housing stipend or a reimbursement. If the agency needs to be the named party instead of you, we write it that way. Extensions run month by month at the same terms, so if a contract that started at 13 weeks turns into something longer, tell us early and we'll hold the next month where we can.

The practical side of these three homes covers what a clinician actually needs. Fruit Tree Home has full-size laundry on site, so scrubs go straight into the machine after a shift, and the Amelia and Piedmont houses each have their own washer and dryer too. Every kitchen is a full kitchen with cookware and dishes, so one grocery run on day one covers the rest of the assignment. Wi-Fi is live from the first night in all three, and the beds come made up with linens already on them, which matters after a late flight into an assignment that starts the next morning.

None of the three has a dedicated desk, so if a home office matters as much as the commute, our travel nurse and medical housing page lists which homes in the wider group do, along with the stipend paperwork and the checklist worth running through before you book any of them.

For families of a patient

A long admission on the southwest side of the city puts the same math in front of a family that it puts in front of a clinician: a hotel room near the tourist corridor adds up fast over multiple weeks, and it rarely has room for more than two people. A house a short drive away changes that. Relatives can take turns without booking a second room, someone can cook instead of living out of takeout containers, and the person doing the overnight sit at the hospital has a quiet bed to come home to during the day rather than a chair in a waiting room.

Fruit Tree Home is set up for exactly this kind of stay and sleeps 10 across three bedrooms, close enough to the tourist corridor at 16 minutes to make daily visits manageable without a long drive each way. For a bigger group, Piedmont sleeps 14 across four bedrooms and three bathrooms, with a game corner and a foosball table that gives visiting kids something to do between hospital trips. Amelia’s Arena Retreat, four bedrooms and two bathrooms, works well for a mid-size family and has a bedroom with its own attached bathroom, useful when grandparents join for part of the stay and want their own space.

Both nightly stays and month-by-month agreements run through the same three homes, so a short surgery date and a stay that could stretch into weeks are both covered without switching houses. We are a housing company, not part of Orlando Health or Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, and none of these homes has any connection to the hospital beyond the drive. Our page on housing for patients' families and the guide on staying near the hospital when someone you love is admitted go further.

What's in the house

All three homes come furnished and ready from the first night, with the exact inclusions confirmed in writing when you book.

Exact inclusions vary a little by home and are confirmed in writing when you book.

None of the three has a pool; like every home we list, they are residential houses without one. Bed and bath counts are the counts from each home's own listing, and a sofa is never counted as a bed. If you're traveling with a pet, several of our homes accept them, and the policy and any deposit are confirmed in writing before you commit; tell us at inquiry which of the three homes you're considering and what kind of pet you have, and we'll let you know the same day whether it works for that house.

All three of these homes are also among the six on the site with a published street address: Fruit Tree Home at 1010 25th St, Amelia’s Arena Retreat at 3013 W Amelia St, and Piedmont at 4445 Piedmont St. Every one of them comes with private parking. Fruit Tree Home has a driveway, Amelia’s Arena Retreat a driveway with a covered front entry, and Piedmont the largest of the three, a concrete parking pad big enough for several vehicles, useful if a family arrives in more than one car for a hospital stay.

Living near the homes

The Amelia and 25th Street houses sit on the downtown side of the portfolio, in Parramore and Holden Heights, where a Publix at The Paramount on Lake Eola covers a downtown grocery run and the international grocers and the Walmart Supercenter to the northwest handle a bigger weekly shop.

Lake Eola Park has a roughly one-mile sidewalk loop, swan boats to rent, and a Sunday farmers market from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., an easy way to spend a morning off between visits or shifts. The Downtown Orlando YMCA on North Mills Avenue is a full gym with two pools, and College Park's Edgewater Drive, a short drive north, has the area's independent coffee shops, Foxtail Coffee and Cups & Pups among them.

Piedmont sits in Washington Shores, minutes from Camping World Stadium, where Nikki's Place on South Orange Blossom Trail has served soul food since 1999. Lake Lorna Doone Park, a twelve-acre park just north of the stadium that reopened in 2021 after a rebuild, has a walking loop, outdoor fitness stations, a splash pad and a lakeside pavilion, close enough to Piedmont to use often over a longer stay. Pharmacies sit along Orange Blossom Trail and West Colonial in both directions, so picking up a prescription rarely means a special trip.

The Amelia and 25th Street houses sit in the one part of the portfolio where you can lean on transit day to day: two SunRail stations, LYNX Central and Church Street, put you on the regional line, and the free LYMMO bus circulates the downtown core, so plenty of errands and a morning off don't need the car at all. None of that reaches this far southwest, though, so the drive to the hospital itself still means a car either way. Piedmont sits in Washington Shores, a residential neighborhood where the big supermarkets are a short drive out and most days call for the car, though SR-408 and I-4 keep those trips quick. From all three homes, a grocery run, a pharmacy stop or an errand across town rarely eats up more time than the drive to the hospital itself, which helps on a week when there isn't much time to spare between shifts or visits.

What guests said

These are real reviews from Fruit Tree Home's own Airbnb listing, quoted exactly as guests wrote them, with each reviewer's name and month. Every home we list carries its own set of reviews on its page, and the full collection across the portfolio sits on our reviews page.