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Health Care & Emergency Facilities
The community also features Celebration Health, a 400,000 square foot facility that opened in November 1997 and is situated on a 60-acre health campus. The building houses Florida Hospital's comprehensive health care services and a 60,000 square foot fitness center. Celebration Health operates its own 24-hour emergency room and also provides maternity and pediatric care, inpatient and outpatient surgery, diagnostic imaging and radiology, sports medicine, a dental clinic and other specialty resources. The fitness/wellness center offers a gym with weight training and cardiovascular area, aerobic studio, lap pool, a kids' gym and health educational services. Police and EMS services are provided by Osceola County, which includes a fire station located in Celebration.
School System
The largest educational forum in the community is the public Celebration School, a part of the Osceola County School District. At the Celebration School more than 1,000 students from grades K-8 participate in some of the country's most advanced educational practices within technologically enhanced facilities. A professional development consortium composed of Stetson University, Auburn University and the University of Central Florida, initially developed the curriculum and continues to work with the faculty to incorporate "best practices" into the school's learning environment. Celebration is such a popular family-oriented community that a new, separate public high school was opened in August 2003 to accommodate Celebration's growing population.
In September 2001, Stetson University opened its new $7.2 million graduate studies center at Celebration. The 36,000-square-foot Stetson University Center is located on 1.1 acres across from the K-8 Celebration School. The Stetson University Center offers master's degree programs in business administration, a Family Counseling Center and an Educational Training Center. In its second year of operation, this "not-for-profit" institution is already profitable at Celebration.
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