Author: Dorron Blumberg

ER AT WESTLAKE RECEIVES 2020 PRESS GANEY GUARDIAN OF EXCELLENCE AWARD FOR ACHIEVING AND SUSTAINING EXCELLENCE IN PATIENT SATISFACTION

Posted by | Sep 10, 2020 | |

September 10 2020 – The ER at Westlake, which is an extension of Wellington Regional Medical Center, has been named a 2020 Guardian of Excellence Award® winner by Press Ganey. The Guardian of Excellence Award recognizes top-performing health care organizations that have achieved the 95th percentile or above for performance in patient satisfaction.

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FAU Awarded $2.4 Million NSF Grant to Train New Generation of Data Scientists

Posted by | Sep 10, 2020 | |

FAU College of Engineering and Computer Science to Lead the
 Graduate Program with an Interdisciplinary FAU Team  
 
September 10, 2020) – Researchers from Florida Atlantic University’s College of Engineering and Computer Science in collaboration with FAU’s Schmidt College of Medicine, Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing, and Charles E. Schmidt College of Science, have received a five-year, $2.4 million grant from the National Science Foundation to train graduate students in data science technologies and applications. Data science and analytics is an emerging transdisciplinary area encompassing computing, statistics and various application domains that include medicine, nursing, and industry and business applications among others.
 

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UF researchers ask, "What if oncologists thought like ecologists?"

Posted by | Sep 10, 2020 | |

By: Samantha Murray, grenrosa@ufl.edu, 949-735-1076
 
September 10 2020 –  What do wildlife and cancer cells have in common? 
Quite a lot, argues a new article authored by University of Florida researchers.
The article is the latest piece of scholarship to emerge from a decade-long collaboration among three scientists: Brent Reynolds, professor in the Lillian S. Wells department of neurosurgery at UF Health; Madan Oli, professor in the UF/IFAS department wildlife ecology and conservation; and Monika Oli, senior lecturer in the UF/IFAS department of microbiology and cell science. 
 

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Dr. Dror Paley is the First Surgeon in the World to Perform a New Limb Lengthening Procedure with the PRECICE Plate Implant at St. Mary’s Medical Center & the Palm Beach Children’s Hospital

Posted by | Sep 10, 2020 | |

Dr. Dror Paley offering this major breakthrough in limb lengthening treatment
at the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute at St. Mary’s Medical Center & Palm Beach Children’s Hospital
 
September 11th 2020 –  As reported by St. Mary’s Medical Center and Palm Beach Children’s Hospital, Dr. Dror Paley, medical director of the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute at St. Mary’s Medical Center & Palm Beach Children’s Hospital, is the first surgeon in the world to perform a new procedure utilizing the new PRECICE™ Plating System, an all-internal remote-controlled limb lengthening device from NuVasive Specialized Orthopedics.
 

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TouchPoint Healthcare Achieves ISO 13485 Certification for Newly Opened Global Headquarters in Florida

Posted by | Sep 9, 2020 | |

 The ISO certification indicates TouchPoint Healthcare’s commitment to 
maintaining the highest standards for its manufacturing processes.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020 – TouchPoint Healthcare today announced it has obtained ISO 13485 certification for the management system of TouchPoint Medical at its new, state-of-the-art global headquarters in Odessa, Florida. The certification ensures that both of its businesses, TouchPoint Medical and iTD US, conform to stringent international requirements for the design, manufacture, subcontract manufacture, and distribution of mobile and stationary equipment carts for medical applications.
 

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