Author: Dorron Blumberg

November 3, 2020 –  It’s that time of year again… patients may be close to or have already met their insurance deductibles, and having your surgery before December 31 could reduce out-of-pocket expenses by thousands.  We recognize that life is better without pain, and many patients wonder why they waited so long to have a procedure that helps their overall health.
 

 

November 9 2020 – Palm Health Foundation, Palm Beach County’s community foundation for health, has provided a grant to Susan G. Komen from its Helen and Harold Bernstein Endowment Fund and Frank & Jennie M. Palen Cancer Support Fund to support a community breast health navigator position in the Glades. The foundation joins with the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties to underwrite the position focused on patient advocacy and equity through community education and by working one-on-one with women in areas of highest need to ensure they have access to timely cancer screenings, diagnoses, treatment and supportive care for breast health.
 

 

November 9 2020 – Unhealthy eating habits, boredom, depression and less physical activity than normal, combined with extra screen time, have led to a dangerous weight gain in children during the pandemic. Over the last eight months, Children’s Diagnostic & Treatment Center (CDTC), which offers a variety of services that care for disabled and chronically ill children and adolescents throughout Broward County, has seen a surge in the number of children and adolescents who are diagnosed as overweight or obese.
 

 

November 09, 2020 – MorseLife Health System has promoted Carolyn Carter, OTR/L, to the newly created position of chair of its Parkinson’s disease therapy program. 

 

“Every nine minutes someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease,” said MorseLife Health System President and CEO Keith Myers. “We are grateful to Marlene and Marty Silver for their generous gift to establish the Chair of Parkinson’s Therapy at MorseLife. The Martin and Marlene G. Silver gift supports this important new program that will improve the lives of many people in our community, who suffer from Parkinson’s and related movement disorders.”
 

November 9, 2020 – Medical and sports cardiologist Eli Friedman, M.D., FACC, joins Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute, part of Baptist Health South Florida. Dr. Friedman serves as the Miami Cardiac & Vascular Institute’s medical director of sports cardiology.