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“The Houses That Love Built…”
The bright yellow, three-story, Florida Cracker-style house opened as the first Ronald McDonald House® in Central Florida, with 13 bedrooms and a shelled-out third floor in December 1996. Located on land donated by Florida Hospital, families of critically ill children turn to the Ronald McDonald House of Orlando when their children are hospitalized or receiving treatment at area medical facilities.
LINDA MAYFIELD |
Florida Celebration Health Expands Emergency Department
Nobody plans a visit to the Emergency Department.
At Florida Hospital Celebration Health in Osceola County, they know that if a trip to the ED is necessary, you’ll need to stay in touch more than ever.
The hospital has added...
KELLY PRICE |
Grand Rounds August
Florida Hospital First in Central Florida to Offer the Newest Technology in the Fight Against Breast Cancer
Florida Hospital Orlando and Winter Park Memorial Hospital, a Florida Hospital, are the only two locations in Central Florida to offer the new PEM Flex Solo II.
The Positron Emission Mammography (PEM) scanner is a specialized form of nuclear medicine medical imaging used specifically for imaging of the breasts. The PEM scanner isolates the breasts and focuses its imaging capabilities to a specific area, which produces a very sharp, detailed image of any abnormal tissue, such as cancerous tumors. With PEM, doctors are able to see cancers as small as 2 millimeters, about the width of a grain of rice.
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Healthcare Recruiting Tips
Seven years ago, I began working in the healthcare recruiting and staffing industry. In just seven years, demand for all types of healthcare professionals from physicians to registered nurses has ballooned.
ERIC SCHARBER |
Legal Perspective
Arbitration: Often Efficient, Economical and Effective
Parties need not take their cases to court and risk having to spend months and possibly years in litigation. The American Arbitration Association (AAA) and the American Health Lawyers Association (AHLA) provide alternative and often cost-effective forums for parties to dispute commercial and healthcare issues respectively in the form of a binding arbitration proceeding.
MIKE SEGAL AND JENNIFER JIMENEZ |
Nemours Gets Approval
Finds Third Time is Charm
It wasn’t pretty or quick, but the Nemours Foundation came up with an “A” for “Approved” on its third request to develop a pediatric healthcare system in Central Florida.
After having been turned down by the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration on two previous applications...
KELLY PRICE |
Physician Spotlight: Dr. Gary W. DeVane
Making a Difference for Families
Thirty years ago, no one knew about the internet, iPods or even that cars could park themselves.
In medicine, the MRI had not yet transformed imaging technology, the use of coronary stents was not commonplace, and physicians had no effective or efficient solution for infertility, a problem affecting one in six couples throughout the world.
KELLY PRICE |
Talk It Out
The most useful tools physicians have to treat cancer patients’ pain are their own ears and mouths.
That is the consensus of two specialists at MD Anderson Cancer Center Orlando, one of the preeminent comprehensive cancer care facilities in the southeastern United States.
J.L. WEBB |
The Success Paradox
Avoiding Misery That High Income Sometimes Brings
The Success ParadoxSM described the misery that high income can sometimes bring. Escaping this paradox can be very simple. Unfortunately, most people make it very complicated. Escaping The Success ParadoxSM requires the courage to live according to your own values, not the values of others.
MICHAEL H. DAVIS |
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