/PRNewswire/ The American Cancer Society and the St. Baldrick s Foundation awarded nearly $3 million to researchers fighting to end childhood cancer. The.
AdventHealth is the only health care system in the Greater Tampa Bay area awarded all “A” scores for the spring 2021 Leapfrog Hospital Safety Grades
Share Article TAMPA, Fla. (PRWEB) May 12, 2021 All AdventHealth hospitals in Tampa Bay have once again maintained safety as the top priority, even during a pandemic, by receiving the highest marks possible for patient safety and quality with a Leapfrog grade “A” from the prestigious Leapfrog Group. The safety grade is awarded based on a hospital’s performance in preventing medical errors, injuries, accidents, infections, and other harms to patients in their care.
AdventHealth proactively implemented specific precautions such as PPE compliance training, hiring additional infection preventionists and integrating additional infection control technology to continue to deliver the safest and best practices in patient care. AdventHealth is the only health care s
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DOCTOR S CHOICE HOME CARE
Doctor’s Choice Home Care recently relocated its Lakeland and Brandon offices. The Lakeland office is now located at 4740 Cleveland Heights Blvd., Suite No. 3, 33813. The Brandon office is now located at 1397 Oakfield Drive, 33511. Doctor’s Choice is an accredited and Medicare-certified agency providing patient-focused home health care services in Florida including skilled nursing, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech therapy, medical social worker aide and home health aide. 863-283-6286 or visit www.doctorschoicefl.com.
NEMOURS AT LAKELAND REGIONAL HEALTH
Olga Zand, M.D., FAAP, a board-certified, pediatric intensivist and pediatric hospitalist, will serve as director of the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit for Nemours at Lakeland Regional Health. Zand completed her fellowship in pediatric critical care at Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo – State University of New York at Buffalo School of Medicine. She completed a res
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Washington, D.C., April 29, 2021 - Two studies related to percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) evaluating the use of risk-avoidance strategies and robotic-assisted technology, respectively, are being presented as late-breaking clinical science at the Society for Cardiovascular Angiography & Interventions (SCAI) 2021 Scientific Sessions. An analysis of strategically avoiding high-risk PCI cases indicates systematic risk-avoidance does not improve, and may worsen, the quality of hospital PCI programs. A study of a robotic-assisted PCI shows the technology is safe and effective for the treatment of both simple and complex lesions; this has the potential to address the occupational hazards associated with radiation exposure and procedure-related orthopedic injuries for physicians.