Julie Abbate is a nurse practitioner on staff at Delray Medical Center. Julie has been a nurse for 24 years, 15 of them at Delray Medical. She says the most rewarding part of being a nurse is working with such wonderful, positive and dynamic people who improve patients’ lives each day. Abbate sites the relationships she builds with patients and their families
Read MoreHoly Cross Hospital in Fort Lauderdale has been recognized as part of Newsweek’s annual list of World’s Best Hospitals for 2020 and Best-In-State Hospital in Florida. “This recognition as one of the...
Read MoreDenise Hernandez Figueroa is the chief nursing officer at Coral Gables Hospital. Denise has more than 20 years of clinical and administrative experience in nursing. In her role at Coral Gables Hospital she is responsible for overseeing and coordinating the care and staffing of the hospital’s nursing units
Read MoreVictoria Carter has worked as a nurse in the Intensive Care Unit at Palm Beach Gardens Medical Center for two years. Carter started her career as a cardiac telemetry nurse before moving to ICU. She says the most rewarding part of being a nurse is being there for her patients at their most vulnerable.
Read MoreApril 28, 2020 – Westside Regional Medical Center successfully performed its first ever Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) procedure on Tuesday, April 22, 2020. TAVR is a minimally invasive alternative to open-heart valve replacement surgery. Westside Regional’s first TAVR patient is 72-year-old Freda Glatt. Prior to undergoing the procedure, the patient Glatt had a history of hypertension and severe symptomatic aortic stenosis. Aortic stenosis is a condition in which the valve that allows blood to be pumped out of the heart becomes narrowed and restricts blood flow, causing a strain on the pumping function of the heart.
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