Jul28
July 29LEESBURG Tampa-based Moffitt Cancer Center plans to build two new cancer-care facilities at Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System, Central Florida Health Alliance officials announced this morning.The partnership will bring state-of-the-art cancer care, in which Moffitt will operate in both hospitals to provide improved cancer prevention methods, improve cancer treatment [...]
Jul28
July 29Tampa-based Moffitt Cancer Center plans to partner with the Leesburg Regional Medical Center and The Villages Health System to build two new cancer-care facilities at each hospital, officials at the hospitals announced Thursday.The partnership between the Moffitt Center and the Central Florida Health Alliance, which operates the two hospitals, will bring state-of-the-art cancer care [...]
Jul27
July 27When you’re constantly fighting for people to do the right thing, something is terribly wrong. One of my best friends called the other day in a state of despondency. Her patient needed to have a C. Section and the anesthesiologist was acting like a jerk. The patient had two previous successful VBACs but this [...]
Jul26
July 27While officials from United Healthcare and Florida Hospital are deadlocked in contract negotiations, thousands of Central Floridians are waiting in a health-care limbo.If the two health-care giants cannot break their impasse by the Aug. 15 deadline, United Healthcare customers face going elsewhere to receive in-network coverage for nonemergency health care.Q. With the contract deadline [...]
Jul26
July 27While officials from United Healthcare and Florida Hospital are deadlocked in contract negotiations, thousands of Central Floridians are waiting in a health-care limbo.If the two health-care giants cannot break their impasse by the Aug. 15 deadline, United Healthcare customers face going elsewhere to receive in-network coverage for nonemergency health care.Q. With the contract deadline [...]
Jul17
July 18Eighty-one hospitals in Florida are teaming up with one important goal: to reduce the number of infections and complications that occur after surgery.For patients throughout the state, the coalition’s work could cut their chances of being readmitted to the hospital after an operation. And for hospitals, fewer complications could reduce the sorts of costs [...]
Jul15
July 16When Jessica Klieger applied to 100 different residencies as a medical student last year, she had the pick of the litter. Eighty invited her for interviews, and she traveled to 15 to find the one that felt right to her: Florida Hospital."This is the place I felt I could really grow, be challenged, and [...]
Jul2
As healthcare reform moves the industry toward a model that more keenly focuses on the customer, providers are turning to information systems that address the full spectrum of patient needs. To meet that challenge, Methodist Medical Center of Illinois, a 353-bed hospital in Peoria, and Central Florida Health Alliance, a healthcare system that includes two [...]
Jul1
July 02It started with a phone call at 4 p.m. last Friday.There’s a heart, liver and kidney available from one donor, the organ-procurement coordinator told Florida Hospital transplant surgeon Dr. Bobby Nibhanupudy. Come get them.The surgeon hopped into his SUV and drove to another Central Florida hospital to harvest the first organs for what would [...]
Jun24
June 25After years of resisting, Orlando has reversed its position on using firefighters to transport sick and injured residents to the hospital.For more than two decades, Orlando residents and visitors unlucky enough to need emergency care have received initial treatment from firefighters and then were taken to the hospital by Rural/Metro Ambulance, a private [...]
