Author: Dorron Blumberg

Aventura Hospital and Medical Center Achieves Healthgrades 2021 Patient Safety Excellence Award

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 | |

Aventura Hospital and Medical Center in the top 10% in the Nation for Patient Safety
 
June 3, 2021 – Aventura Hospital and Medical Center announced today that it has been recognized as a Healthgrades 2021 Patient Safety Excellence AwardTM recipient. This distinction places Aventura Hospital and Medical Center among the top 10% of all short-term acute care hospitals reporting patient safety data as evaluated by Healthgrades, the leading marketplace connecting patients and providers.
 

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Free, 24-Hour Bilingual Grief Counseling Hotline Available to South Florida in light of recent shooting tragedies

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 | |

June 3, 2021 – Florida Blue, in partnership with New Directions Behavioral Health, is offering a free grief counseling hotline to anyone in need of emotional support following the recent shooting tragedies of the past week in South Florida. The hotline is open 24-hours a day to the entire community at no cost and will connect callers with trained, caring professionals who can help.

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Needle Exchange Founder Receives Prestigious NIH’s Avenir Award for Innovative Telehealth Engagement in Care Initiative

Posted by | Jun 2, 2021 | |

June 2, 2021 – For the past five years, Hansel Tookes, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor of clinical medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, has focused on developing community-based engagement in care interventions for persons living with HIV/AIDS and people who inject drugs (PWID).

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