Holy Cross Health Receives $100,000 Donation
November 3, 2020 – The Medical Staff at Holy Cross Health has donated $100,000 to support the colleague assistance program through the Sister Catherine McAuley Fund.
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Lee Health in Immediate Need of Convalescent Plasma Donors to Help Refill Supply
November 19, 2020 – Lee Health is in urgent need of convalescent plasma donations to help refill supply levels. Under an emergency use authorization (EUA), the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has made investigational convalescent plasma available for the treatment of COVID-19 in hospitalized patients as part of the agency’s ongoing efforts to fight COVID-19.
Read MoreAMA, AHA, ANA issue open letter urging public to scale back holiday gatherings to stop further COVID-19 spread
November 19 2020 – Leading U.S. medical and health organizations today called on the American people to celebrate safely this holiday season by scaling back traditional gatherings to help prevent further spread of COVID-19 to friends and loved ones.
Read MoreHOLY CROSS HEALTH $10,000 FOOD INSECURITY GRANT AWARDED TO BROWARD COLLEGE FOUNDATION
November 19 2020 – For the seventh consecutive year, Holy Cross Health has awarded a grant to an innovative program to reduce food insecurity in South Florida.
Holy Cross Health awarded a $10,000 John Johnson Food Security Grant to Broward College Foundation to provide healthy food to students through a mobile food distribution program during fall, spring and summer 2020-2021 and to begin establishing a choice pantry called Seahawk Marketplace at the Davie central campus.
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South Florida among U.S. hotspots for death from liver diseases, Miller School researcher finds
November 19 2020 – When they set out to study local levels of death from liver diseases in the U.S., University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and Emory researchers found significant differences in death rates even within the same state, according to a recently published study in Gastroenterology. And more than 60% of the variability in death from cirrhosis, liver cancer and other liver diseases could be explained by race/ethnicity, poverty, uninsured rates, distance to the closest transplant center, as well as local rates of obesity, diabetes and alcohol use.
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