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NASSAU, BAHAMAS Cleveland Clinic and Doctors Hospital Health System (DHHS) have formed a “strategic advisory council” with the goal of expanding and improving the delivery of healthcare services in The Bahamas.
The organizations agreed to form the advisory council in a two-year strategic advisory agreement which will provide Doctors Hospital access to Cleveland Clinic’s network of internal experts for strategic planning, clinical education and leadership development.
A core team from Cleveland Clinic and Doctors Hospital will meet throughout the year in focused working sessions. Cleveland Clinic members are Curtis Rimmerman, MD, chairman of International Operations; Rob Stall, executive director of International Operations; and Ivan Blanco, Cleveland Clinic Florida’s chief marketing and business development officer. Doctors Hospital members include Charles Diggiss, MD, majority shareholder and president; Charles Sealy, chief executive officer
Courtesy photo Craig Lenihan
Through a two-year strategic advisory agreement, Doctors Hospital Health System will gain access to Cleveland Clinic experts for strategic planning, clinical education and leadership development.
Cleveland Clinic has formed a strategic advisory council with Doctors Hospital Health System, a tertiary healthcare institution in the Bahamas, where the two organizations aim to expand and improve the delivery of healthcare services.
A two-year strategic advisory agreement through which the two agreed to form the council will provide Doctors Hospital access to Cleveland Clinic s network of internal experts for strategic planning, clinical education and leadership development, according to a news release. The Clinic is paid a fee under the agreement, but specific financial terms weren t disclosed.
A doctor gives a patient a shot in this September 2008 photo. (FILE PHOTO)
NASSAU, BAHAMAS As more countries around the world begin issuing COVID-19 vaccines to their residents, Doctors Hospital Health System (DHHS) Infectious Disease Specialist and Clinical Director Dr Charlyon Bonimy said yesterday the vaccine can be a “game-changer”.
“The vaccine, I think, can be a game-changer,” he said in a video news release.
Dr Charlyon Bonimy. (PHOTO COURTESY OF OAKTREE MEDICAL)
“Based on Pfizer’s internal analysis, they’re saying that there’s a 90 percent effective rate. Now, you can have a 90 percent effective rate, but if only five percent of your population actually takes the vaccine, it’s still not going to be that effective.
DHHS says its facilities are safe
NASSAU, BAHAMAS Doctors Hospital is anticipating another wave of increased COVID-19 cases in the new year, but continues taking steps to avoid anyone being potentially exposed to the virus while at its facilities, according to a statement released yesterday.
Doctors Hospital Health System (DHHS) Chief Medical Officer Dr Sheena Antonio-Collie, in the statement, said Doctors Hospital has been “determined and proactive” in keeping its medical professionals, staff, patients and others who make use of DHHS services safe.
This includes, she noted, mitigating exposure to all possible hospital-associated infections.
Doctors Hospital Health System Chief Medical Officer Dr Sheena Antonio-Collie. (PHOTO COURTESY OF DHHS)