Author: Dorron Blumberg

JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTES $20 MILLION TO PEDIATRIC FACILITY’S EXPANSION

Posted by | Mar 31, 2021 | |

 
Masch 30 2021 – It was anything but business as usual at the most recent meeting of the South Broward Hospital District’s Board of Commissioners. 
 
The group, which oversees governance of Memorial Healthcare System, accepted a $20 million check from the Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation. The dollars were the first major contribution of funds generated by the nonprofit’s “Catch the Love” fundraising campaign to underwrite a significant portion of the expected $170 million cost to expand Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital.
 

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Study Shows Pfizer and Moderna are Effective in Preventing COVID-19 Among Health Care and Frontline Workers

Posted by | Mar 31, 2021 | |

March 31 2021 – A new study published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Series has found that Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna — two messenger-RNA vaccines — were effective in preventing COVID-19 among health care, first responders, and frontline workers. These interim findings, published on March 29, reinforce the success of current COVID-19 vaccination campaigns and can reassure the public and these workers that they begin gaining protection after their first dose of the vaccines.

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FAU Among ‘U.S. News & World Report’s’ 2022 ‘Best Graduate Schools’

Posted by | Mar 30, 2021 | |

Graduate Programs Include Business, Engineering, Medicine, Nursing and Public Affairs   
 
March 30, 2021  – Several Florida Atlantic University graduate programs are included in the latest U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” for 2022. Each year, U.S. News’ ranks professional school programs in business, education, engineering, law, medicine and nursing, including specialties in each area. The Best Graduate Schools rankings in these areas are based on two types of data: expert opinions about program excellence and statistical indicators that measure the quality of a school’s faculty, research and students. The data for the rankings in all six disciplines came from statistical surveys of more than 2,125 programs and from reputation surveys sent to more than 23,000 academics and professionals, conducted in fall 2020 and early 2021.
 

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Palm Beach Health Network Hospitals Observe National Doctors’ Day

Posted by | Mar 30, 2021 | |

Physicians from Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center & West Boca Medical Center to be honored for the work they perform at our hospitals 
 
March 30th, 2021 – The Palm Beach Health Network hospitals: Delray Medical Center, Good Samaritan Medical Center, Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center, St. Mary’s Medical Center, and West Boca Medical Center, are celebrating National Doctors’ Day by paying tribute to their physicians for their service, skill and compassion. The observance commemorates the nation’s doctors, who have dedicated themselves to service by helping to save lives and ensure the good health of US citizens.  This year’s theme of, “Thank you for your extraordinary strength, courage and dedication,” is truly appropriate when we think of the challenges of the pandemic, and the outstanding group of physicians these hospitals are honoring for the work they perform each and every day. 
 

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